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Psychology

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What is psychology

The scientific study of behaviour and mental processes
The scientific study of biology
The scientific study of mental disorders
Scientific study of the human mind

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Overt behaviour

Looking inward
An action or response that is directly observed
The idea that behaviour has prior causes that would completely explains ones choices and actions
A response that is internal or hidden from view

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Covert behaviour

Messages from one neuron to another pass over a microscopic gap called a synapse
A response that is internal or hidden from view
The scientific study of behaviour and mental processes
An action or response that is directly observed

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Social psychologist

An approach to psychology that focuses on human experience
Interested in human social behaviour
The principle that the type of sensation experienced is related to the are of the brain activated
Studies the ways in which culture affects human behaviour

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Cultural psychologist

Studies the ways in which culture affects human behaviour
The idea that human beings are capable of freely making choices or decisions
Somesthetic senses
Interested in human social behaviour

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Psychologist goals

Understanding, prediction
Description of behaviour
Control
All of the above

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Wilhelm Wundt

Studied dream theories
Studies in hypnosis
Invented pictorial cues for depth
The father of psychology

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Introspection

Self awareness
Speculating ones behaviour
Looking inward
Looking outward

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Humanism

The idea that all behaviour has prior causes that would completely explain ones choices and actions if all such causes were known
The idea that human beings are capable of freely making choices or decisions
Regulates emotional behaviours and motives
An approach to psychology that focuses on human experience, problems, potentials and ideals

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Determinism

The idea that human beings are capable of freely making choices or decisions
An approach to psychology that focuses on human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals
The idea that all behaviour has prior causes that would completely explain ones choices and actions if all such causes were known
A response that is internal or hidden from view

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Free will

Description of behaviour
The idea that all behaviour has prior causes that would completely explain ones choices and actions if all such causes were known
The idea that human beings are capable of freely making choices or decisions
An approach to psychology that focuses on human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals

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Neurotransmitters

Production of new brain cells
Relieve pain and stress similar to endorphins
Arouses body; emergency system
Messages from one neuron to another pass over a microscopic gap called a synapse

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Enkephalins

Production of new brain cells
Arouses body; emergency system
Relieve pain and stress, similar to endorphins
Fatty layer of tissue that coats axons

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Myelin

Increase in size and wrinkling of the cortex
Fatty layer or tissue that coats axons
Related to language and speech production.
Regulates emotional behaviours

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Neurogenesis

Increase in size and wrinkling of the cortex
Production of new brain cells
Pain carried by large nerve fibres
Regulates growth via growth hormone

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Sympathetic

Brief shift in brain wave pattern
Arouses body, emergency system
Fatty layer of tissue that coats axons
To depict two objects of the same size at different distances

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Electroencephalograph

Regulates emotional behaviours and motives
Detects, amplifies and records electrical activity in the brain
Increase in size and wrinkling of the cortex
The principle that the type of sensation experienced is related to the area of the brain activated

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Corticalization

Related to language and speech production
Is cut; done to control sever epilepsy
Regulates emotion behaviours and motives
Increase in size and wrinkling of the cortex

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Corpus callosum

Related to language and speech production.
Front of the brain that controls movement, sense of smell, higher mental functions
Is cut; done to control severe epilepsy
Contains the motor cortex

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Frontal; front of brain controls

Movement
Higher mental functions
Sense of smell
All the above

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Brocas area

The mental process of organizing sensations into meaningful patterns.
The principle that the type of sensation experienced is related to the area of the bran activated
Related to language and speech production. if damaged, person knows what they want to say but can't say the words
Detects, amplifies, and records electrical activity in the brain

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Hypothalamus

All the sensations, perceptions, memories, and feelings you are aware of in any instant
Regulates emotional behaviours and motives
Production of new brain cells
Stimuli that are found within common area tend to be seen as a group

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Pituitary gland

Four taste sensations
Farsightedness caused by aging
Regulates growth via growth hormone
The principle that the type of sensation experienced is related to the area of the brain activated

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Sensory localization

Regulates emotional behaviours
The mental process of organizing sensations into meaningful patters
Arouses body; emergency system
The principle that the type of sensation experienced is related to the area of the brain activated

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Perception

Farsightedness caused by aging
The mental process of organizing sensations into meaningful patters. our perceptual system interprets information from our senses
The principle that the type of sensation experienced is related to the area of the brain activated
Classification of colours into basic categories of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet

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Hue

Farsightedness caused by aging
Defective sense of smell
An inability to distinguish some colours
Classification of colours into basic categories of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

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Presbyopia

Regulates growth via growth hormone
An inability to distinguish colours
Four taste sensations
Farsightedness caused by aging

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Colour weakness

Defective sense of smell
Classification of colours
An inability to distinguish some colours
Damaged causes by exposing the hair cells to excessively loud sounds

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Stimulation hearing loss

Damage caused by exposing the hair cells to excessively loud sounds
Hearing loss is permanent
Four taste sensations
Defective sense of smell

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Anosmia

Defective sense of smell
Microsleep
Common region
Stages of sleep

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Four taste sensations

Sour, bitter
All the above
Most sensitive to bitter, less sensitive to sweet
Sweet, salty

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Vestibular senses

Senses of balance, position in space, and acceleration.
Warning system
Brief shift in brain wave patters similar to those during sleep
Pain carried by large nerve fibres

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Receptors in the inner ear for

Gravity, listening, sending messages to brain
Balance, gravity, and acceleration
Acceleration, gravity, unbalanced
Balance, gravity, noise

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Warning system; pain carried by large nerve fibres

Sharp, bright
All of the above
Fast pain
Tells you body damage may be occuring

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Counterirritation

Pain carried by large nerve fibres
Brain damage
Brief shift in brain wave patterns similar to those during sleep
Using mild pain to block more intense or long lasting pain

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Figure

Muscle relax which may trigger reflux muscle contraction called hypnic jerk
Ground organization part of a stimulas tends to stand out as an object while the rest forms a less prominent background
Stimuli that are found within common area tend to be seen as a group
To depict two objects of the same size at different distances

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Common region

Stimuli that are found within common area tend to be seen as a group
To depict two objects of the same size at different distances
All the sensations, perceptions, memories, and feelings you are aware of in any instant
Using mild pain to block more intense or long lasting pain

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Relative size

All the sensations, perceptions, memories, and feelings you are aware of in any instant
Senses of balance, position in space, and acceleration
To depict two objects of the same size at different distances, the more distant object is made smaller
Shrinking of size and wrinkling of the cortex

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Consciousness

Stimuli that are found within common area tend to be seen as a group
Brief shift in brain wave patters similar to those during sleep
Muscle relax which may trigger reflux muscle contraction called hypnic jerk
All the sensations, perceptions, memories and feelings you are aware of in any instant

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Microsleep

Most therapists agree that dreams reflect our waking thoughts, fantasies and emotions
Brief shift in brain wave patters similar to those during sleep
Muscle relax which may trigger reflux muscle contraction called hypnic jerk
Sleeplessness that follows withdrawal from sleeping pills

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Stages of sleep

Insomnia
Sleeplessness that follows withdrawal from sleeping pills
Muscle relax which may trigger reflux muscle contraction called hypnic jerk
Microsleep

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Drug dependency insomnia

Most therapists agree that dreams reflect our waking thoughts, fantasies and emotions
Night terrors
Can't sleep without meds
Sleeplessness that follows withdrawal from sleeping pills

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Night terrors

Every child has them
Most common in adulthood
Similar to vivid dreaming
Total panic and hallucinations may occur. occurs during stage 4 sleep.

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Dream theories

Predict things in our future
Are wishes our heart makes
Have not been fully disected in science
Most therapists agree that dreams reflect our waking thoughts, fantasies, and emotions

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Hypnosis CAN

Produce brief memory loss and reduce pain
Help people relax, enhance memory
Frequently increases number of false memories
All of the above

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Motor cortex controls

Messages throughout the brain
Motor movement
Internal speech
How fast someone talks

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