Unit 1
Stimulus that naturally causes a specific response
Unconditional Stimulus
Having something challenging or threatening alter your psychological or physical body.
Stress
"Top" of the iceberg.
Conscious
Medical illness that causes a constant feeling of sadness and lack of interest.
Depression.
Strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.
ID (unconscious psychic energy)
Who created classical conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov
Judgement and reasoning part of the brain.
Frontal Lobe
Biases we have no control over.
Unconsciousness.
Instigator.
provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations.
Superego
Refers to studies that are concerned with identifying the relationship between two or more variables in order to describe how these variables change.
Correlation research.
Injury to the brain caused by a blow or trauma to the head.
Concussion.
Hostile opinion about a person or a class of persons.
Prejudice.
Any incident that causes public humiliation, ridicule and embarrassment.
Hazing.
The largely conscious part of personality that mediates among the demands of id, superego, and reality.
Ego
Adapt and survive.
Protein in the brain that kills nerves in the brain.
Tau
Unique long-term pattern of inner experience and outward behavior.
Personality.
Information from senses retains accurately but briefly from a few hundred milliseconds to one or two seconds.
Sensory memory.
Unconsciously excluding disturbing wishes, thoughts, or experiences from awareness.
Repression
Explain the Nature v. Nurture debate. List characteristics that fall on either side of this debate. Are their traits that can fit into both of these categories? List a few of these crossover traits and explain your reasoning.
Nature is what your genetics make you out to be such as your height, hair color, and eye color. Nurture describes your likes and dislike based on how you grew up such as favorite sports team, favorite place to eat, and favorite videogame. A crossover between the two would be athleticism because you could be tall and strong but not be an athlete.
Describe acute stress and chronic stress and provide an example of each from your life.
Chronic stress would be juggling school work and sports because you have late hours because of practice, and you have homework and studying to do. Acute stress would be having to study for a quiz the next day.
List and describe 3 negative impacts of social media. Be sure to list the problem and then describe the affect this problem is having on teenagers worldwide.
One would be that teenagers are addicted to their cellphones and aren't being interactive with the real world. Another one would be that people set unrealistic standards and people get jealous. Lastly, people gamble on social media which is bad and has people relying on gambling for their income.
Describe a " Nostalgic" experience you have had.
A nostalgic experience I have brings me back to when I was 8. Going into my basement brings good memories. Memories of me playing the xbox with my friends. Spending hours on the game and having the time of my life.
Transforming an unacceptable feeling or desire into its opposite in order to make it more acceptable.
Reaction formation.