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Concept - correct answers a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people 
 
Prototype - correct answers a mental image or best example of a category. Matching new items to this provides a quick and easy method for sorting items into categories. Used when classifying objects. 
 
Algorithm - correct answers a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier use of heuristics. (1 of 2 problem solving methods) 
 
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action potential - correct answers an excitation that travels along an axon at a constant strength, no matter how far it travels 
 
axon - correct answers a single, long, thin, straight fiber with branches near its tip 
 
cell body - correct answers contains the nucleus of a cell 
 
dendrite - correct answers ("tree") widely branching structures that receive input from other neurons 
 
dopamine - correct answers the neurotransmitter 
 
glia - correct answers cells that support the neurons in m...
What are the major subdisciplines within current Psychology and what do they study? - correct answers Clinical - Understand and treat mental illness 
 
Cognitive - basic skills and processes in attention, memory, language perception 
 
Cultural - How geography, national beliefs, and religious values influence mental life and behavior 
 
Developmental - How people can change across lifespan 
 
Health - Relationship between psychological processes and physical health 
 
Industrial/Organizational -...
Psychology definition - correct answers the scientific study of behavior and mental processes 
 
Nativism (nature) -Plato - correct answers the theory or doctrine that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures are innate rather than acquired or learned. 
 
Empiricism (nurture) -Aristotle - correct answers knowledge is gained through experiences (senses) 
 
Rene Descartes - correct answers Dualism 
 
Thomas Hobbes - correct answers the mind is what the brain does 
 
Paul Broca - correct ...
For any mental disorders, know the general symptoms and characteristics. - correct answers 
 
Cognitive Dissonance - correct answers An unpleasant mental experience of tension resulting from two conflicting thoughts or beliefs. 
 
False Memory - correct answers When people come up with memories that never occurred at all 
 
Examples 
- People who create memories from childhood that never happened 
- When people create trauma/abuse that never happened 
- People remember events that didn't happ...
4 goals of psychology - correct answers describe how people and animals behave, understand and explain the causes of behavior, predict behaviors/reactions across situations, control behavior through understanding its causes and consequences 
 
Wilhelm Wundt - correct answers established first psychological lab, analyzed consciousness and structuralism 
 
William James - correct answers built on the principles of introspection & the study of conscious experiences, but instead focused on the why a...
what is psychological activation, such as increased brain activity, autonomic responses, sweating or muscle tension? - correct answers arousal 
 
what is psychological state that motivates an organism to satisfy its needs? - correct answers drive 
 
what is the tendency for bodily functions to maintain equilibrium? - correct answers homeostasis 
 
what law states that performance increases with arousal (or stress) up to an optimal point and then decreases with increasing arousal (stress)? - corr...
biological psychology - correct answers a branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and behavior (ex. genetics, hormones) 
 
Behaviorial Psychology - correct answers the scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning (ex. body image, phobias, Watson, exposure therapy) 
 
psychodynamic psychology - correct answers a branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to tre...
motivation - correct answers balance between what your body naturally wants to do and your experiences and nurture 
 
arousal - correct answers the state of being awake, alert, and attentive 
 
drive reduction theory - correct answers homeostasis, reduce the drive, pulled by incentives 
 
what is an example of drive reduction theory - correct answers eating when you are hungry 
 
arousal theory - correct answers you want to have some degree of arousal 
too much = fear 
not enough = boredom 
 
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Psychology - correct answers scientific study of the mind, brain and behavior. 
 
Pseudoscience - correct answers set of claims that see scientific but aren't. Lack safeguard against conservation bias and belief perseverance that characterize science. 
 
6 principles of scientific theory - correct answers 1. ruling out rival hypotheses 2. correlation vs. causation 3. falsifiability 4. replicability 5. extraordinary claims 6. Ocam's razor 
 
5 great theoretical frame works - correct answers 1. ...