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What is waking consciousness?
Mental state that encompasses our thoughts and emotions that occur.
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How many odor detecting cells do humans have?
12 million
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What is the outer most visible part of our ear?
The pinna.
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What is central tendency?
The tendency of score to congregate around some middle value.
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What is the difference between afferent and efferent?
Afferent is taking info to the brain and efferent is transmitting information.
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What is experimenter bias?
When expectation of an experiment influences the results.
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B.F. Skinner?
Classical conditioning.
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What are the two main nervous systems in our body?
Peripheral and central.
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What is cognitive psychology?
Psychology devoted to the study of the general mental processes.
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What does a correlation coefficient tell you?
How strong the association between 2 variables is.
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What is the corpus callosum?
The band of nerves that connects the two hemispheres of the brain together.
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What is a representative sample?
A samples that is carefully chosen to represent results of a desired population.
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What is the threshold of excitation?
The level an impulse must exceed to fire.
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What is Gestalt psychology?
The study of how people perceive and experience objects as a whole.
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Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis
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What is the temporal lobe responsible for?
Balance, hearing, and certain motions and motivations.
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what is a random sample?
Sample in which each potential participant has equal opportunity.
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What are dendrites?
Part of the neuron that transmits into from other neurons to the cell body.
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What is behaviorism?
The study of only observable behaviors.
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What is the difference between nominal and ordinal?
Nominal refers to the variable that can be categorized into groups( think groups of blondes, brunettes, and redheads), while ordinal refers to the variables that can be ranked in order(think moving ratings).