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Admin
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inhalation, oral
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datura sombie cumber
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(blank)
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intelligence tests
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stanford-binet, wechsler scales
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Negative infers:
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The absence of something
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Expectancy-Value theory
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Internal attributions increase positive attributions of success and negative attributions of failure
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Cons
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Light sensitive receptors. Enable humans to see color and fine detail. Do not function in very dim light
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hardiness
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personality style characterized by commitment, challenge, and control (can I control future?)
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Evocative?
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early on heredity influences behavior which trigger responses from others reinforcing that original behavior
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framing
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an inevitable process of selective influence over the individual's perception of the meanings attributed to words or phrases
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Communication Disorders
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diagnostic term- difficulty in producing speech sohnas (phonological) disorders, speech fluency (Stuttering), using spoken language to communicate (Expressing language disorder)
connected to later onset learning disorders
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CLINICAL INTUITION
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inferior even to unreliable statistical prediction, and possibly unethical
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childhood disintegrative disorder
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Pervasive developmental disorder involving severe regression in language, adaptive behavior, and motor skills after a 2- to 4-year period of normal development.
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social norms
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rules about acceptable behavior imposed by the cultural context in which one lives
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Puberty
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the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing
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compulsive
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characterized by an irresistible urge to act; governed by an obsessive need to conform coupled with an inability to express positive emotions
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Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
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in classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus (US), comes to trigger a conditioned response.
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Applied Research Goal
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Solve some immediate real-life problemGuided by theories and findings of basic researchPredict events directly in a specific environmental situation
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Incentives strengthen ____.
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motivation to perform a response
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Soma
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Part of neuron that integrates info. from dendrites---decides wether or not to fire neural impulses
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Migratory Restlessness
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Birds become restless during normal migration season and correspond most activities to the side of the cage they would be flying if they were free to migrate
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Bipolar Disorder
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Mood Disorder where a person alternates between depression and ephorism in a maniac state
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hering's theory that color perception is based on three systems of color opposites; blue-yellow; red-green; and black-white
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opponent-process theory
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Angular Gyrus
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Located where the parietal, temporal, and occiptal lobes meet and plays a big role the translation for reading to writing.
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Effortful processing
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encoding that requires attention and conscious effort
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the technical name for lie detector
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polygraph test
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A learned response to a stimulii
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Conditional response (CR)
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Premack Principle
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high probability activity can be used to reinforce low probability activity.*ex. getting homework done (low probability activity) will result in tv time (high probability activity)
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How does the flow of activities for developing a selection system relate to the Selection Model presented in class?
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True or false: Deer antlers begin to decrease in size around 7-8.
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True
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cognitive social-learning theory
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an approach to personality that focuses on social learning (modeling), acquired cognitive factors (expectancies, values), and the person-situation interaction.
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Residual Schizophrenia
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Somewhat common type. Age of Onset: Early 20's for both males and females. Course may be time-limited, representing a transition between psychotic episodes.
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psychophysiological assessment
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Measurement of changes in the nervous system reflecting psychological or emotional events such as anxiety, stress, and sexual arousal. e.g. CT scan, PET scan, MRI, fMRI, EEG, GSR.
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What is typical age for GAD?
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10-14 years old
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Humanistic Psychology
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The school of psychology that believes that free will and conscious choice are essential aspects of the human experience.
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Attribution theory
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The theory that explains why things happen and why people choose the particular explanations of behavior that they do.
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Human Genome
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the complete sequence of > 3 billion code pairs & 20, 000-25,000 genes in human body. Project to decode the Human Genome was completed in 2003.
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the control condition
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of an experiment in which the treatment of interest, or independent variable, is withheld so that comparison to the experimental condition can be made.
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Descending pain control
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pain can be suppressed by cognitive and emotional factors
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Dual Representations
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Viewing a symbolic object as both an object and a symbol (a representation) for something else.
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what is the sub division of the mid brain?
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mesencephalon
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3 types of static cues?
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1 interposition2 perspective cue3 texture perspctive
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most babies wake up every
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2-3 hrs day and night
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cardiac output
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- liters of blood leaving the heart per minute
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What is a teratogen?
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An agent that causes abnormal prenatal development
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Problems with Biodata
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May not directly reflect the trait of interest. Can be outcomes of people
s situations rather than their traits. More often used for criterion-oriented validity than for actually measuring traits
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According to viewpoint box 14.1, what can be said about sudden gains in psychotherapy?
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All of the above
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What are 4 types of defense mechanisms?
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repression, regression, reaction formation, and projection
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many species have alarm calls to signal danger to conspecifics
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How do many species communicate
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Focus on concrete, external attributes (fun to play with)
Often momentary state dependent on specific acts performed
Qualities such as intimacy & loyalty not central
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Friendships as seen by young children
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Guilty But Mentally Ill (GBMI)
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An alternative to the verdict Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity which allows for both treatment and punishment. The defendant is given 2 trials: first, to determine whether the defendant is guilty or innocent of the criminal act, and second, to determine whether the defendant meets the criteria for insanity.
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peripheral nervous system (PNS)
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part of nervous system that links the CNS with the body's sensory receptors, muscles, and glands
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How is companion support defined in the family system?
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Engage in activities with other adults
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What is meant by Subgroup Differences and how can this produce a high value for r when no correlation exists?
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Subgroup differences are when the scores of 2 groups are plotted on a graph. The scores of one group are low and the scores of the other group are high BUT there is no correlation within each group.When the correlation coefficient is calculated, the high scores cause r to be higher and there is not a correlation between the variables.
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When will doe begin to run in a herd?
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By the end of April
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What are some of the common stressors people face?
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Moving, marriage, life changes, daily hassles, long lines at the grocery, etc.
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What are the 3 types of neurons and what do they do?
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sensory- signals from senses to CNSmotor- signals from CNS to muscles, glands, organsinter- link input and output
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AT THE END OF THE SECOND STAGE, THE BABY IS BORN BUT..
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IT IS STILL ATTACHED TO THE PLACENTA IN THE MOTHERS BODY BY THE UMBILICAL CORD,AND MUST BE CUT
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