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| 303217272 | nature/nurture,continuity/stages,stability/change | three major issues to consider during development | |
| 303217273 | conception | sperm and egg are fertilized to create a person | |
| 303217274 | zygote | fertilized egg that divide then attach to the uterine wall after approximately 10 days | |
| 303217275 | embryo | the inner cells of the zygote. after 6 weeks, the heart begins to develop | |
| 303217276 | fetus | after 9 weeks, the embryo takes on human shape | |
| 303217277 | terrategen | harmful chemicals or viruses that reach the embryo or fetus during pregnancy | |
| 303217278 | fetal alcohol syndrome | physical and cognitive abnormalities caused by pregnant womans drinking | |
| 303217279 | rooting reflex | babys tendency when touched on the cheek, turn to the touch, and open mouth to look for nipple | |
| 303217280 | maturation | biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. | |
| 303217281 | infantile amnesia | cant remember before 3 years | |
| 303217282 | schema | concept or framework that organizes and interprets information | |
| 303217283 | assimilation | we interpret new experiences in terms of our current understandings | |
| 303217284 | accomodation | we adjust our understandings (schemas) to fit the details of new experiences | |
| 303217285 | cognition | all mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating | |
| 303217286 | object permanence | awareness that things continue to exist when percieved | |
| 303217287 | egocentricism | childs difficulty of taking another point of view | |
| 303217288 | conservation | quantity remains same despite changes in shape | |
| 303217289 | sensimotor | birth to nearly two years; looking, touching, mouthing (object permanence, stranger anxiety) | |
| 303217290 | peroperational | representing things with words and images -pretend play -language development -egocentrism -2- 6 or 7 years old | |
| 303217291 | concrete operational | Piaget's stage for children aged 7-11 that is characterized by increased logical thougt and organization -conservation -mathematical translation | |
| 303217292 | formal operational | Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development, from age 11 or 12 and beyond, when the individual begins to think more rationally and systematically about abstract concepts and hypothetical events. | |
| 303217293 | attatchment bond | emotional tie with a person | |
| 303217294 | familiarity | children like reading the same books, watch same movies, same food, and live in familiar neighborhoods | |
| 303217295 | puberty | period of sexual motivation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing | |
| 303217296 | primary sex characteristics | reproductive parts | |
| 303217297 | secondary sex characteristics | nonreproductive parts | |
| 303217298 | preconventional morality | before age 9, children show morality to avoid punishment or gain reward | |
| 303217299 | conventional morality | By early adolescence, morality focuses on caring for others and on upholding laws and social rules, simply because they are the laws and rules | |
| 303217300 | postconventional morality | affirms peoples agreed upon rights or follows what one personally percieves as basic ethical principles | |
| 303217301 | social contract | rules are considered flexible | |
| 303217302 | Erik Erikson | known for identity | |
| 303217303 | intamacy | ability to form close lovin relationships | |
| 303217304 | menopause | time of natural cessation (stopping) to menustration -reduction in estrogen | |
| 303217305 | alzheimers disease | progressive and irreversible brain disorder with gradual deteriation of memory, reasoning, language, and physical functions | |
| 303217306 | social clock | culturally preferred timing of events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement | |
| 303217307 | midlife crisis | when you enter 40, men realize most of their life is behind them | |
| 303217308 | trust vs. mistrust | Erikson's first stage during the first year of life, infants learn to trust when they are cared for in a consistent warm manner -birth to 18 months | |
| 303217309 | autonomy vs. shame | Erikson's second stage during years 2-3 Children attempt to be independent and make choices regarding freedom and self restraint. If they are unsuccessful or dissapoint their parents, they learn shame. -18 months to 3 years | |
| 303217310 | initiative vs. guilt | Erikson's third stage in which the child finds independence in planning, playing and other activities -3 to 6 years | |
| 303217311 | industry vs. inferiority | Erikson's theory (level) School age (6-12 years). Important Events: School. Children need to cope with new social & academic demands. Success leads to a sense of competence, while failure results in feelings of not being as good as others. -6 to 12 years | |
| 303217312 | intimacy vs. isolation | Eriskon's sixth stage. The major task is to achieve intimacy (deeply caring about others and having meaningful experiences with them). Otherwise, we experience isolation, feeling alone and uncared for in life -young adulthood | |
| 303217313 | identity vs. role confusion | Erikson's stage during which teenagers and young adults search for and become their true selves -adolescence | |
| 303217314 | generativity vs. stagnation | Erikson's stage of social development in which middle-aged people begin to devote themselves more to fulfilling family or they stagnate. -middle adulthood | |
| 303217315 | ego integrity vs. despair | (Erikson) People in late adulthood either achieve a sense of integrity of the self by accepting the lives they have lived or yield to despair that their lives cannot be relived -late adulthood | |
| 303220862 | imprinting | describe any kind of learning that occurs at a particular age or stage of development. An organism recognizing the characteristics of certain stimuli that are subsequently "imprinted" onto the subject. | |
| 303274395 | mania | mood disorder marked by hyperactive wildly optimistic state | |
| 303274396 | bipolar disorder | alternating between the hopelessness of depression and the overexcited state of mania | |
| 303274397 | depression | little serotonin causes ______________ | |
| 303274398 | mania | lots of norepinephrine causes _____________ | |
| 303274399 | selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor | stops the reuptake process so neurotransmittors go into right place | |
| 303274400 | schizophrenia | split mind. delusions, hallucinations, word salad, disorganized behavior, decreased emotional expression, thought, atten, perceptions, motor disorders, emotional disorders | |
| 303274401 | delusions | thought with no basis with reality | |
| 303274402 | hallucinations | sensory experiences (usually hearing things) | |
| 303274403 | catatonic | no physical activity, like a statue | |
| 303274404 | flat effect | zero emotion or 100% emotion | |
| 303274405 | delusions of control | aliens or government are controlling you by putting tech chips inside you | |
| 303274406 | delusions of paranoia | fear that people are out to get you | |
| 303274407 | delusions of reference | everyone around you is talking about you | |
| 303274408 | nihilstic delusions | believe you or the world is cease to exist | |
| 303274409 | psychotherapy | interaction between a trained therapist and a person who suffers from psychological difficulties | |
| 303274410 | biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procesdures that act directly on the patients nervous system | |
| 303274411 | psychoanalysis | freuds approach to therapy that uses free association, resistances, dreams, and transferences to analyze repressed childhood feelings -meets several times a week for years | |
| 303274412 | transference | feelings you transfer towards your analyst are the feelings you had for a family member in the past | |
| 303274413 | electric therapy | ECT - sends a tiny shockwave of electricity to the brain * only effective when used to treat severe depression | |
| 303274414 | psychodynamic therapy | tries to understand a patients current symptoms by focusing on themes across important relationships. -meets once a week for a few weeks | |
| 303274415 | interpersonal psychotherapy | been proven effective in treating depression in 12-16 weeks | |
| 303274416 | humanism | psychological approach of finding the healthiest and strongest people to study (Maslow & Rogers) | |
| 303274417 | client centered therapy | A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth. | |
| 303274418 | active listening | empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies goal | |
| 303274419 | behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors | |
| 303274420 | counterconditioning | a behavior therapy that condition new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors | |
| 303274421 | exposure therapy | anxiety treatments based on exposing people (gradually) to the things they fear and avoid | |
| 303274422 | systematic desensitization | a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli | |
| 303274423 | virtual reality exposure therapy | an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking through new technology | |
| 303274424 | aversive conditioning | type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior | |
| 303274425 | token economy | tangible rewards that can be turned in later for various privileges or treats | |
| 303281429 | psychopharmacology | study of drug effects on the mind and behavior | |
| 303281430 | antipsychotic drugs | drugs that calm and dampen responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli (used for schizophrenia) | |
| 303281431 | tardive dyskenesia | neurotic effect caused by long term of antipsychotic drugs that involve involuntary movements of face, tongue, and limbs. causes obesity and diabetes | |
| 303281432 | cognitive therapies | therapies that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting | |
| 303281433 | stress inoculation training | teaching people to restructure their thinking in stressful situations | |
| 303281434 | cognitive behavior therapy | changing self-defeating thinking and changing behavior | |
| 303281435 | light exposure therapy | cures (SAD) seasonal affective disorder by tanning or bright light to expose melatonin | |
| 303281436 | antianxiety drugs | Medications that relieve tension, apprehension, and nervousness. -Xanax -Adavan | |
| 303281437 | antidepressants | lift people up from a state of depression -Prozak | |
| 303281438 | psychosurgery | removes or destroys brain tissue | |
| 303281439 | lobotomy | brain surgery that cuts the nerve that connects frontal lobe to emotion controlling center of the inner brain | |
| 303281440 | psychological disorders | deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns | |
| 303281441 | phillipe pinel | 1st to unchain mental patients and actually talk to them | |
| 303281442 | medical model | idea that mental illnesses can be diagnosed by their symptoms and cured through therapy | |
| 303281443 | anxiety disorders | distressing, persistent, or maladaptive behavior that reduce anxiety | |
| 303281444 | generalized anxiety disorder | anxiety disorder in which a person is continuously tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. | |
| 303281445 | panic disorder | unpredictable minute long episodes of intense dread, in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening situations | |
| 303281446 | agoraphobia | fear of avoidance of situations in which escape is difficult | |
| 303281447 | phobias | persistent irrational fear | |
| 303281448 | OCD | unwanted repititive thoughts (obsessions) and actions (compulsions) | |
| 303312845 | endorphins | natural opiates | |
| 303312846 | serotonin | -affects sleep, hunger, agression, arousal -depression, anxiety, inhibit dreaming | |
| 303312847 | gaba | -affect inhibitory effect on axons, sleep, movement, anxiety, epilepsy | |
| 303312848 | norepinephrine | -affects mood, arousal, learning, depression | |
| 303312849 | dopamine | -affects mood/emotion, arousal, learning, parkinsons, schizophrenia | |
| 303312850 | acetylcholine | -affects attention, aroousal, muscle action/movement, memory, alzheimers | |
| 303312851 | motivation | need or desire that energies or directs behavior | |
| 303312852 | motive | reason or purpose for behavior | |
| 303312853 | instinct | unborn, unlearned, fixed pattern of behavior that is biologically determined and is characterized of an entire species | |
| 303312854 | instinct theory | no longer acceptable, but, the assumption that genes predispose, that species typical behavior remain strong | |
| 303312855 | drive reduction theory | the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need | |
| 303312856 | homeostasis | tendency to maintain a balanced internal state | |
| 303312857 | drive | psychological state of tension or arousal that motivates activities to reduce this tension and restore homeostasis | |
| 303312858 | incentive theory | proposes that external stimuli regulate motivational stages and that human behavior is goal directed | |
| 303312859 | incentives | positive or negative stimuli that repel or lure us | |
| 303312860 | arousal theory | the aim of motivation is to maintain an optimum level of arousal | |
| 303312861 | arousal | persons state of alertness and mental and physical activation | |
| 303312862 | yerkes dodson law | perform at our best at moderate arousal | |
| 303312863 | intrinsic motivation | desire to perform an activity for itself because we find it inherently enjoyable | |
| 303312864 | extrinsic | opposite of intrisic. doing an activity to obtain reward or avoid consequence | |
| 303377364 | neuron | unit of structure and function of the nervous system -basic building of the nervous system -brain cells | |
| 303377365 | cell body (soma) | contains nucleus, with all mitochrondria -cell life support system | |
| 303377366 | dendrites | bushy branching extensions of a neuron that recieve messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body | |
| 303377367 | axon | carries the message away from the cell body down to other neurons, muscles, or glands | |
| 303377368 | myelin sheath | fatty tissues that surrounds the axon that helps speed up the impulses and sens messages faster | |
| 303377369 | action potential | brief electric charge that travels down the axon where sense receptors are stimulated by pressure, heat, or light, or when stimulated by a chemical message from a neighboring neuron | |
| 303377370 | ions | electrically charged atoms in the neuron | |
| 303377371 | threshold | level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse | |
| 303377372 | synapse | space between the axon tip of one neuron and the dendrite of another neuron -also called synpatic gap or cleft | |
| 303377373 | neurotransmitters | chemical messages that travel across the synaptic gap between neurons | |
| 303377374 | reuptake | excess neurotransmitters are absorbed by the sending neuron | |
| 303377375 | agonist | ______ excite -mimic its effect and block the neurotransmitter reuptake -danger: violent muscle contractions, convulsions, death | |
| 303377376 | antagonist | ______ inhibit -danger: paralysis | |
| 303377377 | nervous system | bodys speedy, electrochemical communication network, consisting of all the nerve cells of the peripheral and central nervous system | |
| 303377378 | central nervous system | brain and the spinal cord | |
| 303377379 | peripheral nervous system | sensory and motor neurons that connect the CNS to the rest of the body | |
| 303377380 | sensory neurons | neurons that carry incoming information from the sense receptors to the central nervous system | |
| 303377381 | motor neurons | neurons that carry outgoing information from the central nervous system to the muscles and glands | |
| 303377382 | interneurons | central nervous system neurons that internally communicate and intervene between the sensory inputs and motor output | |
| 303377383 | somatic nervous system | enables voluntary control of our skeletal muscles | |
| 303377384 | autonomic nervous system | controls the glands and muscles of our internal organs -controls breathing, heartbeat, and digestion | |
| 303377385 | limbic system | donut shaped border of the brain between the older parts and the cerebral hemisphere | |
| 303377386 | amygdala | two limba bean sized neural clusters -influence agression, fear, emotional learning, and memory consolidation | |
| 303377387 | hypothalamus | lies just below the thalamus -can control hunger, thirst, body temperature, sexal behavior -controls reward center of the brain -4 F's (fight, flight, food, frolick) | |
| 303377388 | cerebral cortex | intricate fabric of interconnected neural cells that covers the cerebral part -bodys ultimate control and information processing center -contains 20 to 23 billion neurons | |
| 303377389 | frontal lobe | portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead -involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgements | |
| 303377390 | parietal lobe | portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the top of the head toward the rear -recieves the sensory input for touch and body position -enables methamatical and spatial reasoning | |
| 303377391 | occipital lobe | lies at the back of the head -includes the visual areas which recieve visual information from the opposite visual field | |
| 303377392 | temporal lobe | lies above ears -includes auditory functions which recieve auditory infor primarily from opposite ear -allows us to recognize faces | |
| 303377393 | sympathetic nervous system | arouses -accelerates heartbeat, raises blood pressure, slow digestion, raises blood sugar, and cools with perspiration -Fight and Flight | |
| 303377394 | parasympathetic nervous system | calms (parachute slowly falling) -conserves energy, slows heartbeat, lowers blood sugar | |
| 303377395 | spinal cord | information highway that connects the PNS to the brain | |
| 303377396 | reflexes | our autonomic response to stimuli | |
| 303377397 | neural network | interconnected neural cells that compute stimulations | |
| 303377398 | endocrine system | bodys slow chemical communication system -a set of glands that secrete hormones into the blood system | |
| 303377399 | hormones | chemical messengers, originate in one tissue, travel through the bloodstream and affect other tissues, including the brain | |
| 303377400 | adrenal glands | pair of glands just above the kidneys that release epinephrine or norepinephrine in times of danger directly from the ANS | |
| 303377401 | pitituatary gland | most influential gland, located in the core of the brain and controlled by the hypothalamus, release hormones that control growth | |
| 303377402 | eeg | amplified readout of the brain -designed to diagnose epilepsy | |
| 303377403 | position emission tomography | gives you a 3d image of brain | |
| 303377404 | magnetic resonance imaging | scans the head with a strong magnetic field which aligns the spinning atoms | |
| 303377405 | fmri | reveal the brains functioning as well as the structure by watching the flow of blood travel throughout the brain | |
| 303377406 | brainstem | oldest part and central core of the brain -responsible for autonomic survival functions | |
| 303377407 | medulla oblongata | base of brain stem -controls heartbeat and breathing (autonomic functions) | |
| 303377408 | pons | sit just above the medulla _controls breathing, motor control, posture, balance -helps in coordinating movement, regulate sleep, waking and dreaing, respiration, swallowing, bladder control, hearing, taste and eye movement | |
| 303377409 | reticular formation | lies inside the brainstem between the ears -plays an important role in controlling arousal (cardiovascular control) -sends pain signals and deals with sleep and consciousness | |
| 303377410 | thalamus | very top of brainstem -par of egg shaped structures -brains sensory switchboard, recieving information from all the senses except smell and routes it to the proper location of the brain | |
| 303377411 | cerebellum | "little brain attached to the rear of the brainstem -helps judge time, modulate our emotions, and discriminate sound and textures -coordinates voluntary movement and helps with balance | |
| 303377412 | aphasia | impairment of language -usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to brocas area or wernickes area | |
| 303377413 | brocas area | controls language expression -area of the frontal lobe, usually in left that directs muscle movement involved in spech | |
| 303377414 | wernickes area | controls language reception -brain area involved in language comprehension and expression | |
| 303377415 | brocas aphasia | inability to express language, repetitive speech, or discorded syntax and grammar | |
| 303377416 | wernickes aphasia | innappropiate words and inability to understand spoken language | |
| 303377417 | angular gyrus | involved in reading aloud -recieves the visual info from the visual area and recodes it into auditory form -able to speak and understand but unable to read | |
| 303377418 | plasticity | brains ability to modify itself after some type of damage | |
| 303377419 | split brain | condition in which two hemispheres of the brain are isolated by cutting hte corpus callosum | |
| 303377420 | corpus callosum | large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them | |
| 303377421 | amygdala | emotional center of the brain | |
| 303377422 | right prefrontal cortex | disgust, depression and other negative emotions in brain | |
| 303377423 | left prefrontal cortex | happiness, enthusiasm, energy | |
| 303377424 | nonverbal communication | body language | |
| 303377425 | lovers | _______ tend to stare and gaze into each others eyes | |
| 303377426 | fear anger | ______ and _______ are read most from eyes | |
| 303377427 | happiness | _______ read most from mouth | |
| 303377428 | catharsis | emotional release | |
| 303377429 | glucose | simple sugar that provides energy | |
| 303377430 | glucostats | neurons that monitor glucose levels | |
| 303377431 | insulin | converts body sugar into stored fat | |
| 303377432 | hypothalamus | brain sturcture that appears to be primarily response for food intake | |
| 303377433 | set point theory | each persons body has a fixed number of fat cells | |
| 303377434 | metabolism | rate that which energy is produced and expanded by the body | |
| 303377435 | damaged lateral hypothalamus | starve to death, damaged __________ hypothalamus | |
| 303377436 | stimulated lateral hypothalamus | overeat, stimulated _________ hypothalmus | |
| 303377437 | damaged ventromedial hypothalamus | overeat, damaged ________ hypothalamus | |
| 303377438 | stimulated ventromedial hypothalamus | starve to death, stimulated _________ hypothalamus | |
| 303377439 | anorexia nervosa | eating disorder that is characterized by irrational pursuit of thinness and an over concern with body image and weigh gain | |
| 303377440 | bulimia nervosa | binge eating | |
| 303377441 | post traumatic stress disorder | haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawals, anxiety, and or insomnia that linger for 4 weeks or more after a traumatic event | |
| 303377442 | stimulus generalization | when one event triggers the fear of something similar | |
| 303377443 | observational learning | learning fear by seeing others fear | |
| 303377444 | major depressive disorder | feelings of worthlessness, loss of interest in family, friends, and activities lasting over two weeks and not caused by drugs or medical condition | |
| 303377445 | dysthymic disorder | down in the dump mood that fills most of the day, everyday, for 2 years or more | |
| 303377446 | job | neccessary way to make money, but not fullfulling | |
| 303377447 | career | opportunity to advance from one position to another | |
| 303377448 | calling | fullfilling and socially useful activity | |
| 303377449 | flow | losing yourself in an activity where you also lose sense of time | |
| 303377450 | emotions | mix of physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscience experience including thoughts and feelings | |
| 303377451 | james lange theory | our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion- arousing stimuli - "I am trembling, therefore, I am afraid" | |
| 303377452 | cannon bard theory | theory that emotion arousing stimulis simultaneously triggers pyshiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion -thalamus sends signals to the cortex of the autonomic nervous system | |
| 303377453 | two factory theory | schachtner and singers theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal | |
| 303377454 | common sense theory | we react to our emotions once they occur | |
| 304674391 | psychology | scientific study of behavior and mental processes | |
| 304674392 | socrates plato aristotle | believed mind is seperate from body and continues ater we die -knowledge is born with (nature) | |
| 304674393 | aristotle | soul and body are not seperate, knowledge grows from experience (nurture) | |
| 304674394 | francis bacon | believed minds hunger to percieve patterns even in random events | |
| 304674395 | john locke | born with blank slate, agrees with bacon (nurture) | |
| 304674396 | empiricism | knowledge comes from experience, science should rely on observation and experimentation | |
| 304674397 | wilhelm wundt | established 1st psychology lab to measure "atoms of the mind" | |
| 304674398 | titchener | introduced "structuralism" and "introspection"" (looking inward) into the mind | |
| 304674399 | william james | functionalist (how mental and behavioral organisms are able to adapt, survive, and flourish) introduced psych to educated public | |
| 304674400 | cognitive neuroscience | study of the interaction of thought processes and brain function (how we store knowledge) | |
| 304674401 | nature nurture | ______ works on what ______ endows | |
| 304674402 | biopsychosocial approach | considers the influences of biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors | |
| 304674403 | applied research | solves practical problems | |
| 304674404 | basic research | increase science knowledge base | |
| 304674405 | counseling psychology | help people with living problems | |
| 304674406 | clinical psychology | studies and treats people with psychological disorders | |
| 304674407 | psychiatry | branch of medicine with psychological disorders | |
| 304674408 | mary calkins | first female president of ADA | |
| 304674409 | margaret washburn | first woman to recieve Ph.D in psych | |
| 304674410 | psychodynamic | behavior comes from unconscious drives and conflicts | |
| 304674411 | neuroscience | how body and brain enable emotions, memory, and sensory experiences | |
| 304674412 | psychodynamic | behavior springs from unconscious drive and conflict | |
| 304674413 | hindsight bias | tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one wouldve forseen | |
| 304674414 | overconfidence | overestimating our beliefs, thus leading us to be wrong | |
| 304674415 | critical thinking | examining assumptions, evaluating evidence, and assesing conclusions | |
| 304674416 | theory | explanation using an integrated set of ideas that organizes and predicts | |
| 304674417 | hypothesis | testable statement | |
| 304674418 | operational definition | statement of the procedures used to define research and variables (instuctions) | |
| 304674419 | replication | repeating same study | |
| 304674420 | case study | observatoin technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal truths | |
| 304674421 | survey | technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually be questioning a representative, random same of them | |
| 304674422 | random sample | one in which every person in the entire group has an equal change of participating | |
| 304674423 | naturalistic observation | watching and observing in a natural habitat | |
| 304674424 | correlation coefficient | statistical measure of relationship -reveals how closely two things vary together and thus how well either one predicts the other | |
| 304674425 | illusory correlation | percieved non-existence correlations | |
| 304674426 | experimentation | research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors (indepdent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental processes (dependent variables) | |
| 304674427 | single blind procedure | experiment procedure in which the subject is ignorant (blind) to the treatment being given is a placebo | |
| 304674428 | double blind procedure | both the participants and the researcher are ignorant (blind) about whether the subject recieved is the treatment or placebo | |
| 304674429 | random assignment | assigningparticipants to experimental and control conditions by chance | |
| 304674430 | independent variable | experimental factor that is manipulated | |
| 304674431 | dependent variable | outcome factor, the variable that may change in response to manipulations | |
| 304674432 | personality | individuals characteristics, pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting | |
| 304674433 | unconscious | hidden part of the personality | |
| 304674434 | preconscious | contains material just below the surface | |
| 304674435 | id | pleasure principle | |
| 304674436 | ego | reality principle | |
| 304674437 | superego | morality principle | |
| 304674438 | defense mechanism | unconscious mechanism used by the ego to distort reality and to protect us from anxiety | |
| 304674439 | alfred adler | who thought of interiority complex? | |
| 304674440 | inferiority complex | seeing our peers and wanting to be like them | |
| 304674441 | alfred adler | who thought childhood is important based on childhood tensions | |
| 304674442 | karen horney | who thought of penis envy | |
| 304674443 | penis envy | woman have weak superego and jealous of men for their penis | |
| 304674444 | carl jung | who is freuds star student | |
| 304674445 | carl jung | who thought of collecive unconscious | |
| 304674446 | collective unconscious | a shared inherited resevoir of memory traces from our species ancestry | |
| 304674447 | projective test | personality tests that provide ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics | |
| 304674448 | thematic apperception test | test created by henry murray where people look at ambiguous pictures and tell a story | |
| 304674449 | rorschach labbler | inkblot reflect inner feelings and conflicts | |
| 304674451 | carl rogers | who believed people are basically good and endowned with self actualizing tendency | |
| 304674454 | genuiness, acceptance, empathy | 3 steps to become self actualized | |
| 304674456 | traits | characteristic patterns of behavior or disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self report inventories and peer reports | |
| 304674458 | MMPI | most often given personality test | |
| 304674461 | social cognitive perspective | personality approach that emphasizes the interactions of people and their situatoins | |
| 304674464 | albert bandura | who thought of reciprical determinsm | |
| 304674466 | reciprocal determinism | interactive influences between personality and environmental factors | |
| 304674468 | personal control | our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless | |
| 304674471 | external locus of control | perception that luck or outside forces beyond ones control determine ones fate | |
| 304674473 | internal locus of control | perception that one controls their own fate | |
| 304674475 | learned helplessness | hopelessness and passive resignition a human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events | |
| 304674478 | spotlight effect | overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and mistakes | |
| 304674481 | possible selves | includes your visions of the self you dreams of becoming , or the self you fear becoming |
