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Dendrites - Answer-Receive information from other neurons and transmits it to the cell body Cell body - Answer-Keeps Neuron alive and decides when to fire Axon - Answer-Conducts impulses away from cell body and transmits the impulses to other cells Synapse and Synaptic cleft - Answer-Connection b...

applied behavior analysis - Answer-the use of operant conditioning principles to change human behavior behavior analysis - Answer-The behavioral science that grew out of Skinner's philosophy of radical behaviorism. Also known as the "experimental analysis of behavior." behaviorism - Answer-A n...

availability heuristic - Answer-estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common hindsight bias - Answerg (general intelligence) - Answer-hypothetical factor that accounts for overall differences in inte...

Psychology - Answer-the study of the brain, mind and behaviour rungs of the ladder - Answer-levels of analysis top: social/cultural influences bottom: biological influences emic - Answer-insider perspective etic - Answer-from a persepctive of an outsider naive realism - Answer-the belief that ...

Synonyms - Words/expressions that have the same meaning Antonyms - Words/phrases that are opposite Hyponym - Specific type Ex. TYPES of dogs or cats Hypernym - General class Ex. Dogs and cats Co-hyponym - Two things that share the same category Ex. Carrot & Pea - both vegetables Meronym - Speci...

10. When travelling on an airplane experiencing turbulence, if one passenger's panicked reaction causes others to panic, this is an example of the influence of ______ __________. - Answer-Social Contagion 17. Anxiety could be considered as a condition that can be range from not present, to mild, ...

Ethnicity - Answer-A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often race. Race - Answer-A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics. Racialization - Answer-the process of categorizin...