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korsakoff's syndrome
confabulation: production of distorted memory without the intention to deceive
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what is the function of working memory
- reasoning and comprehension
- also known as episodic
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self effacing bias
attributing success to external factors
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how would a humanist treat a patient
focuses on self actualization, helping patients become more fulfilled i.e. processing and becoming aware of their emotions
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context effect
better recall when at a place similar to the place where original learning took place
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false alarm
incorrectly identifies a yes when a stimulus was not present i.e. track was not part of the train vocabulary
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when someone is a moderate supporter for a cause is presented with supporting and dissent views what will she do?
belief perseverance, become a stronger supporter
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demand characteristics
study participants are aware of hypothesis and changes behavior to match it
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if an individual believes that his destructive behavior will yield positive results from others, what personality theory does this support?
- social cognitive is based on expectation of others (correct)
- humanistic perspective is based on free will and how best to apply it
- behaviorist is based on stimuli
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behavioral modeling
participants consciously or unconsciously imitate the behavior or someone else (walk into a silent vs. conversational room)
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education reforms harms individuals because it is adaptive for some and maladaptive for others. what kind of perspective is this form?
- functionalist
- functionalism: institutions automatically alters themselves to create stability
- conflict theory: institutions are used by capitalists to manipulate others
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cochlea
- involved in pitch and intensity of sounds
- semi circular canals deal with dizziness, poor balance and difficulty hearing
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maniac depressive disorder
alternating between destructive behaviors and depression
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borderline personality disorder
attention seeking and irritable when ignored
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schizophrenia
isolation, social anxiety, and disorganized thought
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where would you see the lowest population in preindustrial to industrial society?
in the beginning b/c t/o transition, population increases
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apparent movement
not actual movement but illusion of perceived movement across empty space
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induced movement
- perceived motion of one object due to the movement of another object
- like when the moon seems to move behind clouds when it is the clouds that are moving
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when stationary lights are illuminated in succession
- not real movement
- apparent movement
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movement aftereffect
- persistence of perception of motion in still objects after watching moving objects
- the walls seem to bubble after watching spinning spiral for a few minutes
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in attentional blindness
lack of attention; not associated with blindness
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change blindness
when a change is introduced and the observer does not notice
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attentional blink
a second stimulus cannot be perceived if it occurs close in time to the first
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regulatory gene
involved in controlling the expression of one or more genes
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adaptive value of behaviors
the combined influence of all characters which affect the fitness of individual or group
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conflict theory
dissatisfaction based on inequality
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social constructionism
- based on choices rather than judgments
- symbolic interactionism: how people act based on meaning and interpretation
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construct validity
- the degree in which the study measures what it claims to measure
- participants are only giving play money, no consequence, not measuring what it claims to measure, lacks construct validity
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catharsis
- purging, providing relief from strong or repressed emotions
- allowing the patient to express his feelings and share experiences
- psychodynamic approach
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psychoanalytic approach to helping patient suffering from depression and pessimistic explanatory style
uncovering the roots of pessimism
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token economy
- giving tokens for completing tasks, behavioral modification based on systemic reinforcement
- operant conditioning
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pessimistic explanatory style
- makes assumptions about bad things that happen to him
- all his fault (personal)
- happen consistently (stable)
- affect his entire life (global)
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dysthmia
depressed mood for less than 2 years
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how are cultural symbols given meaning?
- assigned meaning rather than having inherent meaning
- lamarck more accurately describes culture with his "use or disuse" model
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meissner corpuscles
mechanoreceptor
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