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Behavior
must be both measureable and visible
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Psychology
The scientific study of human behavior and mental processes
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Mental Processes
these, which include thoughts, memories and perceotions, cannot be seen or measured
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Human Factors Psychology
these psychologists are involved in industry where they help design the look, shape and feel of things
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Associationism
These, much like deja-vu, remind us of past events and expierences
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Forensic Psychology
These psychologist aid in the selection of police officers
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nonconscious
functions over which you have no control (ex, hair growth)
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William James
Founder of functionalism, believed expierences was a continous stream of consciousness..
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Evolutionary Perspective
adaptive behavior is one of the primary focus of this perspective; influenced by darwins work
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Sigmund Freud
used a couch to relax his patients as they explained their dreams; his method is known as psychoanalysis
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Replication
this step in the scientific process is designed to ensure the experiment can produce the same results and again
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Possesion by demons
during the middle ages, it was believed this was the cause of agitation or confusion
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Occipital lobe
this lobe of the brain, located at the back of the head,is the one most involved with vision
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thryoid gland
this gland, which secretes thyroxin,is primarily invovled in regulating metabolism
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Absolute Threshold
this is the weakest amount of stimulus which can be detected by any of your senses
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CAT Scan
Computer Aid Tomography, this is the method used to study the brains of livinf indivuals
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REM Sleep
this is the period during which the most vivid dreams occur
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1st step of the scientific process
question
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2nd step of the scientific process
Hypothesis
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third step of the scientific process
experiment
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fourth step of the scientific process
analyze the results
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fifth step of the scientific process
draw conclusions
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the two additional steps
- replicate
- make new questions
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altered state of consciousness
when a person's sense of self or sense of that world changes
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Examples of ASOC
sleep, biofeedback, meditation, hypnosis
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the difference between night terrors and nightmares
night terrors are different becasue people with NT's heart's race and gasp for air. They may suddenly sit up, talk incoherrently, or thrash about.
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what is considered the first psychology experiment?
it was in the later half of the 600's BC, it was conducted by Psamtik 1, he wanted to prove that egyptian was the mother language of the land
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Preconscious
ides that are not in your awareness, but you can recall them
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Unconscious
this is where stuff is hidden from the conscoius mind
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nonconscious
a level where most of our basic biological functions happen
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random sample
individuals are selected by chance from the target population
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stratfied sample
a sample drawn in such a way that known subgroups within a population are represented in proportion to their numbers in the general population
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target population
the total group to be studied or described and from whom samples may be drawn
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