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Psychology Core Concepts Flashcards
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In 1879, who conducted psychology's first experiment measuring the time lag between hearing a ball hit a platform and pressing a key?
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Wundt
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To determine causation, which research design must be used?
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Experimentation
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A study finds that the more one studies, the more quiz questions answered correctly; this is what type of correlation?
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Positive
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What is a case study in research?
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A single individual or group is studied in great depth
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When generalizing from a sample to a population, what is important about the sample?
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The sample be representative
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What is a hypothesis?
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Testable prediction, often implied by a theory
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What is a list of questions developed by a researcher administered in paper form?
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Survey
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Researchers must do what to important concepts so others understand how they are defined?
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Operationalize
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In a true experiment, what is controlled by the experimenter?
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Independent variable
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Using existing records to answer a research question is known as what?
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Archival research
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The nineteenth-century theory that bumps on the skull reveal ability and traits is called what?
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Phrenology
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What is the tiny space between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of another?
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Synaptic gap
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What are the branching extensions of nerve cells that receive incoming signals?
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Dendrites
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What part of a neuron transmits neural messages to other neurons, muscles, or glands?
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Axon
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What part of the brainstem controls heartbeat and breathing?
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Medulla
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A cat's ferocious response to electrical brain stimulation suggests the electrode touched what?
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Amygdala
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Information is most quickly transmitted from one cerebral hemisphere to the other by what?
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Corpus callosum
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What are the basic building blocks of the body's information processing system?
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Neurons
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If activated, which system makes you feel relatively at ease?
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Parasympathetic nervous system
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What refers to a person's genetic makeup, and what to physical characteristics?
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Genotype; Phenotype
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What is consciousness?
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Our awareness of ourselves and our environment
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What does circadian rhythm refer to?
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A pattern of biological functioning that occurs on a roughly 24-hour cycle
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Sensations of falling or floating weightlessly are associated with which sleep stage?
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Stage 1
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What are the rhythmic bursts of brain activity during stage 2 sleep called?
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Sleep spindles
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Why is REM sleep called paradoxical sleep?
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Our nervous system is highly active, while our voluntary muscles hardly move
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How often does the human sleep cycle repeat?
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90 minutes
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What disorder involves periodic uncontrollable attacks of overwhelming sleepiness?
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Narcolepsy
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According to Freud, what is the latent content of a dream?
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Its underlying but censored meaning
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Meditation may be helpful in what areas?
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Pain management and stress control
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What is insomnia?
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Difficulty falling and staying asleep