studying for ap psychology semester 1 final
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| 624965492 | Psychology | study of the mind | |
| 624965493 | Clever Hans | horse who could do math, trainer would ask him math questions and he would stomp his foot to say the answer | |
| 624965494 | Confirmation Bias | you only look for info that confirms what you want to be true | |
| 624965495 | Pseudo-psychology | fake science | |
| 624965496 | Facilitate Communication | A pseudo-psychology where a facilitator would hold the hand of the autistic child and the child would "move their own hand" to different letters to spell out an answer to a question the facilitator asked. They found the facilitator was the one moving the hand. | |
| 624965497 | Difference between psychologist and psychiatrist | Psychologist has a master degree or phd in psychology and looks at stuff related to the mind and cannot prescribe medicine. Psychiatrist has a MD and looks at things related to how the body works and can prescribe medicine | |
| 624965498 | Wilhelm Wundt | 1st person to call himself a psychologist and to have the 1st lab. He was subscribed to structuralism and worked with introspection | |
| 624965499 | Introspection | when they psychologist asks the patient on their perspective | |
| 624965500 | Industrial Organizational Psychologist | work in industries with organizations in marketing and advertising | |
| 624965501 | Gestalt Psychology | the whole is more important than parts ("Gestalt" means "whole" in German) | |
| 624965502 | Freud | Psychoanalysis and psycho therapy. He focused on the unconscious | |
| 624965503 | Theory | Testable explanation for a set of observations | |
| 624965504 | Hypothesis | "little theory" | |
| 624965505 | Operational Definitions | how something is going to be used | |
| 624965506 | Independent Variable | the thing that you do not change | |
| 624965507 | Dependent Variable | the measured outcome of a study | |
| 624965508 | Quantified data | anything that is expressed in numbers | |
| 624965509 | Random Assignment | equal chance to be in the control group or the experimental group | |
| 624965510 | Correlations Coefficient | -shows the relationship between two variables -if both factors are increasing, it is positive -if one increasing and the other decreasing, it is negative -strongest correlation is the greatest absolute value -which is higher? .5 or -.72? -.72 | |
| 624965511 | Biopsychology | deals with mental processes | |
| 624965512 | Natural Selection | "survival of the fittest" | |
| 624965513 | Success according to evolution | many offspring | |
| 624965514 | phenotype | physical characteristic | |
| 624965515 | What are Genes made of? | DNA | |
| 624965516 | Agonist | Drugs that mimc neurotransmitters | |
| 624965517 | Antagonist | drug that inhibits neurotransmitters | |
| 624965518 | Sequence of a message from inception to evaluation | stimulation, transduction, sensation, perception | |
| 624965519 | What is perception influenced by? | expectations | |
| 624965520 | Sequence of a message sent from the brain to the endocrine system | hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid | |
| 624965521 | what is the most complex sense? | vision | |
| 624965522 | Subliminal persuasion fails | thresholds occur at different levels, no proof that influence behavior | |
| 624965523 | Wavelength | color | |
| 624965524 | intensity | brightness | |
| 624965525 | most common from of color blindness | red/green | |
| 624965526 | message travels through ear | tympanic membrance, hammer/avil/stirrup, cochlea, basilar membrane, nerve | |
| 624965527 | 1920s - 1960s most popular view of psych | behaviorism | |
| 624965528 | Non-Conscious process | something that we are not aware of (breathing, digesting, blood pumping...) | |
| 624965529 | Freud | unconscious/ if you become aware of unconscious can cause anxiety | |
| 624965530 | REM | Rapid eye movement/ Vivid cognition/ sleep paralysis/ voluptuary muscles | |
| 624965531 | deepest level of sleep | stage 4 | |
| 624965532 | Who do men dream more about? | men | |
| 624965533 | Hallucinogens | LSD, Cannabis, angle dust, psilocybin | |
| 624965534 | smoking | leading cause of lung cancer and other preventable disease | |
| 624965535 | how does learning occur? | experience | |
| 624965536 | Pavlov | Classic conditioning | |
| 624965537 | Classic conditioning | A form of behavioral learnign in which a previously neutral stimulus acquires the power to elicit the same innate reflex produced by another stimulus | |
| 624965538 | Operant condition | behavioral change occurs as a result of manipulating consequence | |
| 624965539 | Positive | add | |
| 624965540 | negative | remove | |
| 624965541 | continuous reinforcement | best strategy to teach a new response | |
| 624965542 | Elaboration/assimilation | to connect something new to something you already know | |
| 624965543 | order of memory stages | Sensory memory to working memory to long term memory | |
| 624965544 | How long does sensory memory hold info? | for a fraction of a second | |
| 624965545 | Vision | iconic | |
| 624965546 | Hearing | Echoic | |
| 624965547 | How many items does working memory hold? | 7 items | |
| 624965548 | How many items does long term memory? | infinite amount | |
| 624965549 | How are fear/sadness/anger recognized? | universally | |
| 624965550 | Women use different display rules | then men | |
| 624965551 | Right hemisphere | negative | |
| 624965552 | self-actualization | highest level of hierarchy of of needs | |
| 624965553 | Stages of sexual response | excitement to plateau to orgasm to resolution | |
| 624965554 | internal locus of control | you have control over what happens to you (study hard to get a good grade) | |
| 624965555 | external locus of control | you do not have control over what happens to you (you failed a test because a teacher does not like you) | |
| 624965556 | Mis attribution | a memory fault that occurs when memories are retrieved but associated with the wrong time, place or person (hey remember that time at disneyland? i wasnt there. you always go with us.) | |
| 624965557 | Sensation | process by which stimulation of a sensory receptor produces neural impulses that the brain interprets as a sound, visual image, odor, taste pain or other sensory image. | |
| 624965558 | Transduction | tansformation of one energy to another | |
| 624965559 | absolute threshold | the amount of stimulation needed for a stimulus to be detected | |
| 624965560 | difference threshold | the smallest amount by which a stimulus can be chagned | |
| 624965561 | consciousness | awareness of something for what it is; internal knowledge | |
| 624965562 | circadian rhythms | sleep cycle, eating cycle, etc. body clocks | |
| 624965563 | REM rebound | when you do not get enough REM sleep the night before so the next night you get more REM sleep | |
| 624965564 | Laten content (of dreams) | Frauds idea; symbolic meaning of your dreams | |
| 624965565 | Hypnosis | an induced state of awareness, usually characterized by heightened suggestibility, deep relaxation, and highly focused attention | |
| 624965566 | Unconditioned Stimulus | In classical condtioning, the stimulus that elicits an unconditioned response | |
| 624965567 | Unconditioned Response | in classical conditioning, the response elicited by an uncondtioned stimulus without prior learning | |
| 624965568 | Conditioned Stimulus | In classical condtioning, a previously neutral stimuls that comes to elicit the condtioned response | |
| 624965569 | Conditioned Response | In classical conditioning, a response elicited by a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with the uncondtioned stimulus | |
| 624965570 | Extinction | the weaking of a conditioned response in the absense of an uncontioned stimulus | |
| 624965571 | Negative reinforcement | taking something bad away as a reward | |
| 624965572 | Primary reinforcers | food, water, sex | |
| 624965573 | secondary reinforcers | money to get food | |
| 624965574 | Premat Principle | relating an undesired activity with a desired activity | |
| 624965575 | Memory | any system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information | |
| 624965576 | Eidetic memory | an especially clear memory. "photographic memory" | |
| 624965577 | Retrieval/ encoding/ storage | steps to memory | |
| 624965578 | Episodic memory | memory of personal events or "episodes" | |
| 624965579 | procedural memory | a division of long term memory that stoes memories for how things are done | |
| 624965580 | implicit memory | a memory that was not purposely learned "what was she wearing yesterday?" "she had a scarf on" | |
| 624965581 | priming | "silk silk silk silk silk" "what do cows drink?" "milk" "no, they drink water" | |
| 624965582 | Tip of the tongue (TOT) | the inability to say a word even though you know its in your memory | |
| 624965583 | representative bias | a faulty heuristic strategy based on the presumption tht once people or events are caterorgized | |
| 624965584 | emotion | a four part process that involves phsiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpreteation, and behavioral expression | |
| 624965585 | Symathenic nervous system | part of the autonomic nervous system that sends messages to internal organs and glands that help us respond to stressful and emergency situations | |
| 624965586 | James/Lang Theory | says you have a physical reaction before the emotional reaction | |
| 624965587 | emotional intelligence | the ability to understand and control emotional repsonses | |
| 624965588 | motivation | to do something for a reward | |
| 624965589 | extrinsic motivation | to do something because you want to do it | |
| 624965590 | Drive | biological need for motivation |
