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GATech PSYC 1101 Review
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Psychology course at Georgia Tech.

GATech PSYC 1101 Review
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1. junction between the axon tip of the presynaptic neuron and the dendrite of the postsynaptic neuron

2. monitors your head's (and body's) position and movement

3. periodic, natural, easily reversible loss of consciousness

4. being biased by misleading info

5. disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information

6. Perceiving objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change

7. at the rear of the brainstem; coordinates movement output and balance; nonverbal learning and memory

8. types of long-term memory

9. the tendency of our consciousness to change focus

10. Cognitive structures that help us perceive, organize, and process information

11. how feelings of inadequacy (or inferiority) influence young children and their developing personality

12. One sense may influence another, such as when smell of food influences its taste

13. the factor that is being predicted in a correlation relationship

14. An increase in a cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation.

15. analogical thinking represents

16. Empirically testable prediction, often implied by a theory

17. created the Triarchic Theory of three intelligences

18. Constantly tense, apprehensive, and in a state of ANS arousal

19. Stressed importance of how behavior functions to allow us to adapt to our environments

20. Freud's Personality Structure

21. increase of membrane potential; inside of the axon becomes more negative than resting potential

22. part of the brain that stores declarative memory

23. major psychosocial crisis in childhood

24. nervous system that calms the body, conserving its energy

25. Feelings that predispose us to respond in particular ways to objects, people, and events