PSY 1513 Study Guide. Flashcards

5578266892	psychology	Scientific study of behavior and mental processes	0
5578276506	psychologists understand behavior and mental processes through the	scientific method	1
5578286113	Case study	detailed study of one person	2
5578288559	Correlation coefficient	the # that indicates the strength and direction of a relationship between 2 variables	3
5578306235	which variable is being manipulated?	independent	4
5578314138	Humanistic perspective	we have a free will to choose our behavior	5
5578322224	who is known as the father of Psychology?	Wundt	6
5578329663	Informed consent	researcher informs participant of risks of the study	7
5578336276	Neuron	Basic cell of nervous system that transmits Info.	8
5578355054	Axon_____, info / dendrites_____, info.	sends, receives	9
5578362067	Function of endorphins	Pain relief	10
5578370509	Central Nervous System made up of	Brain and Spinal Cord	11
5578378463	Anatomy nervous system: contains___________--"Fight or Flight"	Sympathetic	12
5578388393	Limbic System	Emotional and Motivational processes	13
5578394759	Function of Amygdala	fear, response	14
5578405013	Left cerebral hemisphere of brain	Languege	15
5578427348	Absolute thresthold	The minimum intensity of stimulus detected 50% of the time.	16
5578433762	___________is the sense of smell	Olfaction	17
5578445431	Flavor involves the senses of ________ and _________	taste and smell	18
5578451528	Kinesthetic senses	Location of your body parts in relation to the ground and each other	19
5578465450	Define: Size constancy	tendency to interpret objects as always being the same size	20
5578496822	The sense of balance is know as	Vastibular	21
5578499681	Define: Perception	interpretation of sensory info.	22
5578507046	Define: Illusion	a perception that doesn't correspond to reality	23
5578515536	Define: Consciousness	Awareness of everything going on around you	24
5578525070	Adults sleep _________ than infants.	less	25
5578527184	What hormone is released to facilitate sleep	melatonin	26
5578533038	Define: Narcolepsy	fall asleep during alert part of the day	27
5578539019	Psychoactive drugs	substances that influence our brain and behavior	28
5578549864	3 most commonly used drugs in Americans over age of 12	Nicotine, Caffeine, Alcohol.	29
5578558062	Define: Tolerance	need more of a drug to achieve the same effect	30
5578568171	What do stimulants do to the functioning of the nervous system?	Increase it (Alcohol is depressant)	31
5578588288	what are biological determined , innate patterns of the nervous system?	instincts	32
5578602386	Examples of_________ primary drives---thirst, hunger, sexual desire.	primary, (need)	33
5578614063	Need for _______ --attaining goals	achievement, (want)	34
5578619788	A BMI over 30 indicates	Obesity	35
5578632015	Dieting can be effected by which emotions?	Sadness, happiness.	36
5578657000	What 2 acts characterize bulimia?	binging and purging	37
5578681745	Perfectionism is correlated with	anorexia	38
5578686677	Kinsey believed sexual orientation is on a	continuuam	39
5578698505	Defina: Emotion	complex reaction to an internal or external event	40
5578706559	Facial feedback hypothesis	our emotional state is affected by the feedback from our face	41
5578734839	These are basic emotions	anger, happiness, fear, sadness	42
5578747863	Define: Learning---	reletivali permanent change in behavior brought by experience or practice	43
5578779649	Who was responsible for classical conditioning?	Pavlov	44
5578787357	Pavlov experiment of classical conditioning ? unconditioned stimulus conditioning stimulus	dog food the bell	45
5580557874	Learning to make a reflex to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus.	Classical conditioning	46
5580564772	The loud noise in the Little Albert study by Watson	Unconditional Stimulus	47
5580567094	____________ learning applies to voluntary behavior	Operate	48
5580568421	The difference in Positive and Negative reinforcement	Treat Avoiding something bad	49
5580572445	Continuous reinforcement	Reinforcing every correct response	50
5580575362	Types of schedules of reinforcement	Fixed - weekly paycheck Variable - Fishing Ratio - Number of responses	51
5580581626	Latent Learning	Learning that is stored even when behavior is not reinforced	52
5580588882	The 'aha' moment or sudden realization on how to solve a problem	Insight	53
5580590734	Stage of memory that is retention for a period of time	Storage	54
5580592398	Ebbinghaus found that information is more quickly forgotten	Using maintenance rehearsal rather than elaborative rehearsal	55
5580594962	Relating new items to items you already know to assist you in memory	Elaborative rehearsal	56
5580598820	Memory problem of people with Alzheimer's dementia	Anterograed amnezia	57
5580601812	Multiple choice tests use:	Recognition	58
5580603990	Flashbulb memories	Encoding that occurs because an event has emotional ties or association	59
5580608276	In problem solving, heuristics are know as	Rule of thumb	60
5580611172	Type of thinking that is best when a creative solution is needed	Divergent thinking	61
5580612501	Functional fixednes	Being able to see objects in their typical roles	62
5580616125	Tendency to use methods to problem solve that have worked in the past	Mental set	63
5580619368	Problem-solving with we estimate when we probability of an event	Judgement	64
5580619369	Pragmatics	Social skills of language	65
5580622246	Someone high in practical intelligence is good at	Adapting to the environment	66
5580626465	_________ is heredity and __________ the influence of environment	Nature Nurture	67
5580631265	Sequence of prenatal stages	Germinal Embryonic Fetal	68
5580633902	Zygote	Fertilized egg	69
5580637159	Chromosomal disorder with extra 21st chromosome	Downs Syndrome	70
5580639996	An example of this motor skill is climbing trees	Gross	71
5580641363	Piaget says children over age 12 use this type of thinking	Abstract	72
5580642490	Vygotsky's scoffolding	When teacher helps more in the beginning and withdraws help as the learning improves	73
5580649864	What the Strange Situation was developed to measure	Attachment	74
5580645886	Stranger anxiety	Distress that an infant feels when faced with strangers	75
5580655011	The average infant born today is	7 lbs, 20 inches long	76
5580656103	Rooting Reflex	When you touch the side of the baby's cheek, the baby turns that way	77
5580658086	Attitude	Our belief that we have about something	78
5580660376	Foot in the door technique	Increasing compliance by asking for a small request which leads to something bigger.	79
5580666091	Attribution	Act of assigning cause to a behavior	80
5580676588	Cognitive Dissonance	Inconsistencies between attitudes and behavior	81
5580678183	Stereotype	Idea about a particular group of people	82
5580679975	We are attached to others who are __________ to us	similar	83
5580683107	Stereotype threat	When fears of being discriminated against cause people to conform to a stereotype	84
5580691368	Abnormal	Behavior that is rarely seen	85
5580692889	Origins of mental disorders	Biology Sociocultural	86
5580694479	Schizophrenia is a	psychological disorder	87
5580697608	The main symptom of Generalized Anxiety Disorder	Anxiety	88
5580698796	Delusions	False belief held by someone who doesn't believe it is false	89
5580709755	Characteristics of personality disorders	Patterns of behavior that make social interactions difficult	90
5580719090	Learned helplessness	The belief that you cannot control the outcome of events	91
5580724424	Compulsions	behaviors	92
5580727257	2 main symptoms of depression are changes in	How you are sleeping and eating	93
5601823081	Fixed ratio	# of response required for reinforcement. Snow cone	94
5601823082	Variable ratio	# of response required for reinforcement changes. Slot machine	95
5602145575	Fixed interval	Time btw reinforcement is same. Weekly paycheck	96
5602145576	Variable internal	Time btw reinforcement changes. Fishing	97
5602145577	Obsessions	Thoughts	98
5616702626	2 motor skill	Fine	99