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APA Principles of Research Ethics
Name the five principles,
Summarize the 1st principle,
Name 2nd principle
6  cards
Module 1: The Story of Psychology
Wilhelm wundt,
What was the forerunner of psycho...,
What did aristotle believe about ...
25  cards
MODULE 1: PERSPECTIVES
Neuroscience,
Psychodynamic,
Cognitive point to head
7  cards
Module 2: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
Hindsight bias,
Judgmental overconfidence,
Pattern recognition and extrapola...
28  cards
Module 3
0  cards
Experimental Design
Internal validity,
External validity,
Specific hypothesis operational d...
7  cards
Module 4: Neural and Hormonal Systems
Name the parts of the neuron and ...,
Dendrite fibers,
Axons
38  cards
Module 5: Tools of Discovery and Older Brain Structures
True false the brain is contralet...,
Lesion definition,
Define sparse coding
53  cards
Types of brain scanning
Eeg,
Mri,
Fmri
5  cards
mod 17 (and pages 89-90): sensation and perception
Define sensation,
Define transduction,
Bottom up vs top down processing
26  cards
mod 18 - vision and perceptual organization and interpretation
Wavelength,
Amplitude,
Define accomodation
34  cards
mod 19 -nonvisual senses
Audition,
Amplitude,
2 a s of hearing
51  cards
parts of the eye
What parts move and why do they d...,
Cornea,
In what order does light go throu...
12  cards
parts of the ear
Middle ear,
Eardrum,
Inner ear
7  cards
mod 7
3 a s,
Define consciousness,
What are types of conscious states
6  cards
mod 8: sleep and dreams
What are some of the rhythms we a...,
What is the circadian rhythm,
Define and describe the stages of...
20  cards
mod 9: hypnosis
What is hypnosis,
True false not everyone is sugges...,
True false actors comedians etc a...
11  cards
mod 10: drugs and consciousness
Define psychoacive drug,
When is drug use a disorder,
3 categories of psychoactive drugs
20  cards
Mod 27 - Thinking
What is cognition,
What do cognitive psychologists s...,
What is a concept
22  cards
Mod 28 - Language and Thought
The 6 language universals mostly ...,
Phoneme,
Morpheme
23  cards
Mod 29 - Intro to intelligence
Savant syndrome,
Intelligence in our culture is a ...,
Socially constructed concept
9  cards
Mod 30 - Assessing intelligence
Origins of intelligence testing,
Are intelligence tests culturally...,
What is the stanford binet test w...
16  cards
Mod 31 - Genetic and Environmental Influence on Intelligence
Heritability,
Are genes solely responsible for ...,
True false we can t say what of i...
7  cards
mod 20 - learning
Adaptability,
Learning,
Associative learning
36  cards
mod 21 - operant conditioning
True false oper,
True,
Operant conditioning
24  cards
mod 22 - effects of biology and cognition, and learning by observation
How do biological constraints aff...,
How do cognitive processes affect...,
Cognitive learning
19  cards
punishment stuff
True false swift and assured puni...,
Punishment,
4 drawbacks of punishment
5  cards
mod 23 - studying and building memory
Memory,
Atkinson and shiffrin s,
Flasbulb memory
12  cards
mod 24 - storage: retaining info in the brain
Long term potentiation ltp,
Serial position effect,
Automatic processing
24  cards
mod 25 - retrieval
True false quickly relearning or ...,
Recall,
Recognition
12  cards
mod 26 -forgetting, memory construction, and improving memory
Daniel schacter s 7 sins of memor...,
Forgetting is often a,
Proactive vs retroactive interfer...
15  cards
mod 14: infancy and childhood
Maturation,
Cognition,
Schema
23  cards
mod 15: adolescence
Define adolescence,
Piaget kohlberg and others on ado...,
Erikson believed every life stage...
13  cards
mod 13:
0  cards
mod 16:
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