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| Walter Hess | Discovered various stop-start mechanisms in the brain |
| Thalamus | The brain's sensory switchboard, located on top of the brainstem |
| Punishment | An event that decreases the behavior that it follows |
| Self-Concept | A sense of one's identity and personal worth |
| Standard Deviation | A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score |
| Naturalistic Observation | Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation |
| Delta Waves | The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep |
| Alpha Waves | The relatively slow brain waves of a related awake state |
| Amphetamines | Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes |
| Monism | The presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing |
| Memory | The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information |
| Misinformation Effect | Incorporating misleading information into one's memory of an event |
| Semantic Encoding | The encoding of meaning, including the meaning of words |
| Illusory Correlation | The perception of a relationship where none exists |
| Clinical Psychology | A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders |
| Autism | A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind |
| Cognition | All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating |
| Assimilation | Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas |
| Classical Conditioning | A type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli |
| Psychological Dependance | A psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions |
