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which psychologist is associated with behaviorism?
Skinner
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a psychologist that studies a person's change throughout their life
developmental psychologist
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"inside" mental processes such as feelings, thoughts, and dreams are known as
cognitive activites
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a branch of psychology that has nothing to do with helping people
consumer
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would assume a physical problem
biological
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behavior might be a result of someone's ethnic background
sociocultural perspective
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center on the patient's perception
Gestalt theories
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typical "reason" for psychotic behavior in middle ages
witchcraft
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who believed that the cause of behavior was unconscious to patients?
Freud
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the "father of psychology" and founder of the school of structual
Wundt
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the school of thought in psychology that tends to focus on the patient's perspective
gestalt
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suggests that behavior are latent tendencies left over from their ancestors
Evolutionary
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what is based on proportions of the target population?
stratified sample
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what are used to scan the brain?
- P.E.T. scan
- M.R.I.
- C.A.T. scan
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the relay center for messages in the brain
thalamus
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chemical messages that are sent through the nervous system
neurotransmitters
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part of the nueron sending the message to the next cell
axon terminals
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what are the three major sections of the brain?
Mid, Hind, and Fore
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responsible for the secretion of growth hormones
Pituitary
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lining that connects the 2 hemispheres of the brain
Corpus callosum
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the receiver of chemical messages on a nueron
dendrites
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parts of the nervous system are??
brain, spinal cord, and brain stem
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fatty substance that covers the axon
myelin sheath
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part of the brain that is responsible for waking someone from a sleep stage
Reticular Activating System
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an aunt or uncle that is related to you by blood, what percentage of genes are the same?
25%
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the least amount of stimulus that any one of the body's sensory organs can detect
absoute threshold
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the part of the eye that control the amount of light let in
pupil
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the photoreceptors that are responsible for color vision is
the cones
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the amount of vibrations a sound wave denotes
pitch
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damage to the cochlea or the nerve cells themselves would result in
sensorinueral deafness
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