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Decks in this class (23)

Lec. 1 (intro to psych)
The scientific study of behavior ...,
What does scientific mean in the ...,
What does behavior mean in the de...
46  cards
Lec. 2 (critical thinking/research strategies)
Every goal of psychology requires...,
The science of psychology helps u...,
Psychology separates ______ and _...
74  cards
Lec. 3 (neurons)
Basic fundamental unit of the ner...,
The study of the cells and organs...,
Nervous system components organs 3
59  cards
Lec. 4 (the nervous system)
3 functions of the nervous system 1,
Mind connection to the outside wo...,
Composed of all the nerves except...
82  cards
Lec. 5 (cortex)
Interconnected neurons form netwo...,
__________ ____________ power of ...,
The more ________ of networking i...
71  cards
Lec. 6 (consciousness + sleep)
Awareness of the outside world an...,
In addition to conscious thoughts...,
A bug lands on your arm and there...
65  cards
Lec. 7 (hypnosis drugs)
T f dreams are difficult to study...,
The study of dreams has mostly be...,
Characteristics of dreams 4 3
89  cards
Lec. 8 (behavior genetics)
Our codes for life 1,
The basic structural unit of a li...,
The inner area of a cell that hou...
86  cards
Lec. 9 (prenatal + infancy)
A single sperm cell penetrates th...,
A _____ is a fertilized cell with...,
At about ____ ____ the zygote tur...
68  cards
Lec. 10 (adolescence + adulthood)
Life between childhood and adulth...,
Start of adolescence 2,
Puberty occurs earlier in females...
48  cards
Lec. 11 (vision)
How do we construct our represent...,
Detect physical energy a stimulus...,
When we select organize and inter...
94  cards
Lec. 12 (hearing, other senes, and perceptual organization)
The amplitude or height of the so...,
Depends on the frequency of the s...,
Part of ear that is vital for ori...
55  cards
Lec. 13 (classical conditioning)
Early structuralists and function...,
Believed you can only study what ...,
Who were famous behaviorists 4 3
44  cards
Lec. 14 (operant conditioning)
Classical or operant 1,
Classical or operant 2,
The strengthening of behaviors th...
70  cards
Lec. 15 (memory encoding)
The study of behaviorism could ex...,
View the mind as an information p...,
Seq process of information proces...
71  cards
Lec. 16 (memory - storage retrieval)
Encoding how its stored of sensor...,
Encoding how its stored of stm wo...,
Encoding how its stored of ltm 3
72  cards
Lec. 17 (thinking + language)
The mind portion of the process o...,
The study of mental processes 2,
What mental process does cognitiv...
63  cards
Lec. 18 (intelligence)
Question that drives a lot of int...,
Intelligence in all cultures is t...,
In research studies intelligence ...
42  cards
Lec. 19 (motivation)
Motivation is a _____ _____ just ...,
Motivation is the factors that in...,
T f motivation cannot be directly...
78  cards
Lec. 20 (emotions)
Organized psychological and physi...,
Emotions are partly what 2 things 2,
There is great controversey wheth...
51  cards
Lec. 21 (personality and psychodynamic)
An individual s characteristic pa...,
Personality is the unique pattern...,
Personality is a ________ _______...
104  cards
Lec. 23 (social psych)
The process we go through to expl...,
Attributions are important becaus...,
2 types of attributions 3
78  cards
Lec. 24
Psychological disorders are persi...,
In order to be classified as diso...,
Categories of psych disorders 4 3
24  cards

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