Brainarium

confirmation bias - ️️a tendency to seek and pay special attention to information that supports one's beliefs, while ignoring information that contradicts a belief belief perseverance - ️️a tendency to hold on doggedly to a belief, even in the face of evidence that would convince most people the belief is false availability heuristic - ️️occurs when we experience unusual or very memorable events and then overestimate how often such events typically occur assumptions of resea...

The H+ are pumped from the ___________________ to the _____________________. - ️️stroma, lumen What the the purpose of cyclic electron transport? - ️️to produce more ATP, when more ATP is needed that NADPH ____________________ and _____________________ goes into the light reaction and ____________________, _________________, and _________________ come out. - ️️energy, H2O, O2, ATP, NADPH What are the three phases of the calvin cycle? - ️️1. carbon fixation 2. reduction 3...

Obedience - ️️Caused by an authority figure commanding one to do something Milgram - ️️Interested in why people in Nazi Germany follow immoral orders. Was it because of who they were, or were there social dynamics? Factors learned from Milgram - ️️Physical Presence and Legitmacy Proximity, prestige, and the information presented (i.e. arguments) affect obedience Victims proximity If remote, high obedience; same room or touching has very low obedience Group vs. Individual If o...

common property resource - ️️Resource that people normally are free to use; each user can deplete or degrade the available supply. Most are renewable and owned by no one. Examples are clean air, fish in parts of the ocean not under the control of a coastal country, migratory birds, gases of the lower atmosphere, and the ozone content of the upper atmosphere (stratosphere). See tragedy of the commons. club goods/excludable but not rival - ️️goods that are excludable but not rival in ...

Harassment - ️️A course of vexatious comment or conduct known or ought reasonably to be known to be unwelcome Human Rights - ️️Freedom from discrimination and harassment because of characteristics that you cannot change. What are the aspects of equitable care? - ️️Client-Centered, Respect, Foster Communication, Be aware of biases and effects on care, Zero tolerance for patient abuse What are potential barriers to reporting violations? - ️️Embarrassment, Fear of Reprisal, ...

identity statuses (Marcia - 4) - ️️Foreclosure: commits to identity w/o exploring options. Identity Diffusion: neither explore nor commit. Moratorium: Actively explore but not yet commit. Identity Achievement: explored & committed. differential susceptibility - ️️Genetic factors that make individuals more or less responsive to environmental experiences. emerging adulthood (5 characteristics) - ️️Identity Exploration Instability Self Focused Age Feeling in-between Possibili...

Couplet - ️️two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. iambic pentameter - ️️a poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable heroic couplet - ️️a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style closed couplet - ️️two line units of verse that do not extend their sense beyond the line's end open couplet - ️️A couplet in which the secon...

syntax - ️️grammatical rules of language for combining words to form phrases, clauses, sentences pragmatics - ️️social rules of language articulators - ️️Mouth structures that make speech sounds (jaw, tongue, lips, and soft palate). coarticulation - ️️speech sounds for words are not produced individually categorical perception - ️️The tendency of perceivers to disregard physical differences between stimuli and perceive them as the same, such that a continuous change i...

Triangulation - ️️Locating the epicentre using multiple seismographs located at different stations. Divergent Boundary Seismicity - ️️Earthquakes that occur at mid-ocean ridges at shallow depths, have two kinds of faults responsible for tremors: - Strike-slip - Normal Transform Boundary Seismicity - ️️Earthquakes that occur along transform boundaries. Convergent Boundary Seismicity - ️️Earthquakes can occur at shallow, intermediate, or deep depths. Possibly a result fro...

Copyright - ️️The exclusive right to produce or reproduce the work or any substantial part of it, to perform the work in public or to publish an unpublished work. It arises automatically upon the work's creation and is fixed in some tangible form, like an author's ideas being fixed in the form of a literary work. The term lasts for the lifetime of the creator, and for 50 years after their death. Trademark - ️️A mark that is used by a person for the purpose of distinguishing or...

DNA Pol I (Function and directionality) - ️️1. Repairs mismatched base pairs on new strands, removes primers and fills in gaps 2. Only able to fill in short ( bp) DNA segments, in the 5' to 3' direction on the leading/lagging strands, or 3' to 5' on the template Exonuclease Activity - ️️A proofreading function of DNA polymerase 1. Repairs mismatches in DNA replication, and degrades DNA SSB proteins - ️️Single Strand Binding proteins bind to single-strands of DNA and...

What are the gender differences in self-esteem? - ️️-Girls focus more on physical appearance and social relationships. -Boys focus more on competence and conduct. -Both girls and boys focus on appearance. Describe the recent cultural phenomenon of protection of self-esteem at all costs. - ️️In order to succeed, you need to have high self-esteem to compete against others. Describe Piaget's theory of moral development. - ️️-Piaget believed we went from rigid acceptance of th...

Explain how chemical senses work together and the relationship of the olfactory system, our emotions and memory - ️️Olfaction and emotion - the olfactory cortex id between the base of the frontal lobe, amygdala, and hippocampus therefore smell is highly associated with memory emotion and motivation Pheromones: Chemical substances released by an animal that influences behaviour of others in the same species Smell taste and visual cues all work together to evoke the same mental reaction ...

facial muscles - ️️Orbicularis oculi, Orbicularis oris, Zygomaticus, Frontalis muscles of mastication - ️️masseter and temporalis muscles that connect the shoulder - ️️trapezius, serratus anterior and pectoralis minor muscles that connect axial skeleton to humerus - ️️pectoralis major and latissimus dorsi muscles that connect the pectoral girdle to humerus - ️️deltoid muscle muscles that move the forearm - ️️biceps brachii and triceps brachii muscles that move ...

Mean is to __________ as standard deviation is to __________. - ️️central tendency; variability In psychological research, the term generalization refers to - ️️concluding that the results obtained from a sample can also be applied to the larger population Inferential statistics are useful in telling researchers whether the results of their experiments are - ️️due to chance Natural selection has favoured species that reproduce sexually because sexual reproduction: - ️️lead...

Kc equation - ️️[products]/[reactants] Kp equation - ️️Kc(RT)^∆n Reaction quotient equation - ️️[C]^c [D]^d / [A]^a [B]^b Difference between Q and K - ️️Q changes over time Le Châtelier's Principle - ️️Changes to a system at equilibrium will result in predictable and opposing changes to achieve a new equilibrium state Reactant concentration increases - ️️Product formation is favoured → Shift Right Product concentration increases - ️️Reactant formation i...

Social inequality - ️️A concept used by sociologist to describe how certain attributes deemed to be valuable (e.g. wealth, education, occupation, life chances, health) are unevenly distributed across societies, social classes, communities, families, and individuals are affected by socioeconomic status Gini coefficient - ️️Measure of inequality of a statistical dispersion that can range between 0- if whatever is being measured is equally distributed among all members of a population...

Barbarous - ️️The term for all people who were not Greeks, this gives us our word "barbarian", and the word comes from how an outsider language sounded to the Greeks, i.e. bar bar. Basileus - ️️The term for the legitimate single ruler, the "king." Boule - ️️Council of 500 citizens chosen for 1 year terms in Athens. Bronze Age - ️️The period of Greek history extending from the appearance of bronze technology (3000 BC) to the fall of the Mycenean kingdoms (1200 BC...