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| What is Gestalt Psychology? |
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the whole is different from the sum of all parts. examples: max wertheimer and wolfgang kohler |
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| How did Charles Darwin contribute to psychology? |
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evolution:: animals change over time by alterations in gene pool. also known as survival of the fittest |
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what are the key aspects of Behaviorism? |
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- Classical conditioning (pairing a nuetral stimulus to another)
- stimulus-black box(brain)-behavior
- reinforcement
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Sigmond Frued conscious and unconscious mind Id, Superego, Ego "Infatile Sexuality" |
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What is congitive psychology? What role does it have in therapy? |
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| focuses on how we process and use information as well as how this impacts our thinking, language, creativity, and problem solving. |
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| What is sociocultural psychology? |
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| the study of how a cultural thinks as a society |
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What is humanistic psychology? |
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Same as behaviorism except: - focuses on whole person
- no proof of Id/unconscious mind
- numbers aren't important, experiences are
meaning of existance, life is subjective (no one experiences it the same), and free will |
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| What type of research did Jane Goodall do? |
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| What type of research did Freud use most? |
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| How are cross-sectional stuides different from longitudinal studies? |
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cross-sectional: compare data from different age groups longitudinal studies: collect data over the years and look for a trend |
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What is bias? How do hindsight bias, confirmation bias, and overconfidence bias exemplify bias? |
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When two items are correlated one cannot say taht one thing causes another? (correlation does not mean causation) |
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| the scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research |
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its a pseudo-science or fake science. The science of looking at the bumps on peoples' head to understand their personality. |
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what is structuralism? what were they trying to do? |
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scientists discovered that you can break materials into parts. trying to find out the parts of the conscious |
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Who is wilhelm wundt? why is he so important to psychology? |
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he is considered the father of psychology. he had the first psychology lab |
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| what is the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist? |
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psychiatrists: specialize in medicine, perscribe meds, perform surgeries and tests psychologists: don't specialize in med. |
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what are PET scans, MRIs and CAT scans? how are they different from one another? |
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PET scans: Positron emission tomography, can tell which parts of the brain are active when subject is doing an action MRIs: magnetic resonance imaging, produce detailed pictures of organs, soft tissues, bone and virtually all other internal body structures CAT scans: computed axial tomography, produces cross-sectional images |
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| What is the difference between nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales of measurement? |
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nominal- #s have no "numeric" meaning like we usually think about w #s no # is greater or less than another ordinal-#s represent serial position, intervals b/t the values are indetermined interval- consisten unites of measurement; equal spacing b/t unites but no true zero |
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| What are descriptive and inferential statistics? |
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| What are the measure of central tendency and which one do we use the most often? |
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| What is a frequency polygon? |
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What is a positive or negative skew? how do you tell what it looks like? |
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| waht are dendrites, axons, and terminal buttons? |
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what do neurotransmitters do? what are some examples? |
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waht is the cerebral cortex? what are the wrinkles and what are they for? |
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| what are positive and negative reinforcements? |
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| What is taste aversion (garcia effect)? |
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| Who is Martin Seligman and what did he discover from his work with dogs? |
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| In Watson and Rayner's experiments what are the UCS, UR, CS, and CR? |
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What are the reinforcement schedules? explain each. |
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| what is an operant conditioning chamber (skinner box)? |
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| what is the difference between discrimination and generalization? |
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| what is albert bandura's theory on learning? |
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| what are token economies and where are they used? |
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how does classical conditioning work? |
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where is the cerebellum? what does it do? |
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what is the occipital lobe? what does it do? |
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which are is the temporal lobe? what does it do? |
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| which structure is the brain stem? |
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which area is the medulla oblongata? What does it do? |
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What does Wernikes area do? what happens if it is injured? Brocca's area? |
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Where is the hippocampus? what does it do? |
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What is the thalamus? what does it do? |
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what is the corpus callosum? what does it do? what happens when it is severed? |
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what is a scatter plot? how do you tell a positive or negative correlation? |
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what are the subcategories of psychology? what do they do? |
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what are Industrial/Organizational psychologists? how do they differ from councilors or educational psychologists? |
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| what are some analogies for the mind? |
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| what were sperling's experiments and why did he perform them? |
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| who is Elizabeth Loftus and what did she do? |
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what is short term memory? and what is its duration and size? |
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who is herman ebbinghaus? what did he discover |
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| what is the difference between recognition and recall? |
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| what are flashbulb memories? |
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| what is amnesia and how can you get it? |
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| what is the method of Loci? |
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how do the amygdale play a role in memory? what about traumatic memories? |
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| What is a confounding, or third, variable? |
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who is ivan pavlov? waht did he do? |
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| what are dependent and independent variables? |
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What is fetal alcohol syndrome? what does it mean for the baby? |
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When a mother drinks excessively during pregnancy weird facial features and mental retardation |
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| What are the primary reflexes that babies are born with? |
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| any agent that causes deformation in a baby |
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| how can we tell what babies are thinking? |
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what is the nature vs. nurture debate? What do lock and rousseau say? |
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| what is Erikson's stages of psychosocial development? (review what some of the problems are at different stages of life) |
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| What are the oedipus and electra complexes? |
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what is the superego? the id? |
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| what is important to know about jean piaget? |
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| can someone be forced to do something they would not normally do while under hypnosis? |
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| who are zimbardo, Rosenhan, Asch, Milgram, and Harlow? |
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