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I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon
Ex: Iraq war was meant to be a peaceful push towards democracy and went bad |
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| Scientific Attitude: 3 components |
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- curiosity
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- humility |
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- SUMMARIZES broad concepts
- HYPOTHESES testing W/O BIAS
- can be REPEATED with similar results |
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| prediction on how things are related based on data |
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| Correlation ___ Causation |
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things that seem to be related but are not
Ex. Dreaming a/t a phone call then getting it the next day |
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| not affected by experiment conditions |
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| affected by experiment conditions |
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| Measures of Central Tendency |
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- how different data is
- low is better than high |
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| most reliable way to describe data |
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| Can lab experiments illuminate everyday life? |
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| they are a recreation to test theoretical principles |
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| Does behavior depend on one's gender and culture? |
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- culture helps shape views and behaviors
- we are one human family
- gender affects our conversation and motives
- men and women go through the same life processes |
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| Why do psychologists study animals and is it ethical to experiment on animals? |
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- studying behaviors help us understand our own
- experiments have led to many vaccinations
- compassion for animals depends on how similar we are to them |
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| Is it ethical to experiment on people? |
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- confidentiality and consent required
- research must be explained and person must be comfortable |
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| Is psych free of value judgments? |
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| values affect WHAT we study, HOW we study it, and how we INTERPRET results |
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| meeting point b/w neurons, gap or cleft |
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| chemical messengers b/w synaptic gaps |
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| sending neuron reabsorbs excess neurotransmitters |
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- contains sensory receptors
- two components- somatic, autonomic |
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- controls voluntary muscle movements
- part of PNS |
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- controls glands and internal organ muslces
- part of PNS
- two components- sympathetic, parasympathetic |
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| arouses and expends energy, slows digestion |
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| calms and conserves energy, speeds digestion |
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- controls reflexes, automatic responses to stimuli
- brain and spinal cord |
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| depicts brain activity by showing each brain area's consumption of glucose |
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| provides pics of brain's soft tissue |
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| reveals brain's bloodflow, used for studying visual and auditory cortex's w/ hallucinations |
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| responsible for survival functions |
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| controls heartbeat and breathing |
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| receives info from all senses but smell and transmits them to the medulla and cerebellum |
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- processes sensory input and coordinates movement output and balance
- "little brain" |
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- part of limbic sys
- influences aggression and fear, lima bean sized clusters |
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- part of limbic sys
- responsible for storing and retrieving memories |
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- part of limbic sys
- directs eating, drinking, body temp.
- helps govern endocrine sys
- linked to emotion and REWARD |
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- body's main info and control center
- contains "lobes" of brain |
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- front
- speaking, muscle movement, plans and judgment |
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- top
- receives sensory input for touch and body position |
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- back
-receive from visual fields |
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- function of the cortex
- controls voluntary movements |
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- function of the cortex
- registers and processes body touch and movement sensations |
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- function of the cortex
- involved in learning, remembering, speaking |
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| neural fibers connect the two brain hems and transfer messages |
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| info is simultaneously processed both consciously and unconsciously |
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- insomnia
- narcolepsy
- sleep apnea
- night terrors
- sleepwalking/talking |
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| Methods of Research and Observation |
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- case study
- survey
- naturalistic observation |
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| comm internally and intervene b/w sensory inputs and motor outputs |
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| regulates growth and controls other endocrine glands |
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| damage to his frontal lobe caused this calm man to become angry ad |
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- sleep stage 1
- awake but relaxed |
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- sleep stage 3 and 4
- deep sleep |
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- sleep stage 5
- sleep and dreams
- fast, regular, much like awake arousal |
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- sleep stage 2
- sleep spindles |
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| set of instructions for making an organism |
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