The behavioral and cognitive characteristics of a specific individual, group, activity, or circumstance.
100
What is a feral/'wild child'?
child grew up in severe isolation with virtually no human contact
100
when a neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to evolve a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
100
What is the difference between an in-group and an out-group?
In-group: members one identifies with
Out-group: members one does not identify with
100
True/False The deviation from normality assumes what most people do is normal
True
200
What was the first contemporary perspective discovered in psychology?
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic
200
What were Erik Erikson's idea of psychosocial development?
life periods in which individuals goal is to satisfy desires associated with social needs
200
type of learning in which responses come to be controlled by their consequences
What is operant conditioning?
200
Someone in your group class project decides to not participate in creating the presentation, this individual is most likely portraying...
What is social loafing?
200
What are three signs/symptoms of panic attacks for those with panic disorders?
racing hearbeat, chest pains, difficulty breathing
300
Who discovered the perspective of structuralism which studies the basic elements of the consciousness?
William Wundt
300
Based on Kohlberg's Stage Theory of Moral Development, what is stage 1 of the pre-conventional level?
mainly based on punishment orientation, right and wrong is determined by what the punishment is
300
What is spontaneous recovery?
appearance of the CR after extinction w/ no further UCS + CS pairings
300
True/False The bystander effect increases with the size of the crowd
True
300
What are phobias?
persistent, irrational fears of specific objects, activities, or situations
400
What does a health psychologist study?
how patients handle illness and the most effective ways and control/change poor health habits.
400
In Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development, what does an individual in the pre-operational stage believe?
individual starts to represent world internally through language. Traits include egocentric, animism, artificialism, transductive logic
400
occurs when event following response increases organism's tendency to make that response
What is reinforcement?
400
True/False The presence of others strengthens an individuals feelings of responsibility for his/her actions of failure to act is called group polarization
False
400
What is worrying excessively that one may become seriously ill?
hypochondraiasis
500
Explain the following ethical standards of the American Psychological Association (APA): anonymity
methods of conduct/standards stay highly confidential between the professional organization and the those being tested
500
What was the importance of Harry Harlow's wire mother experiment with infant monkeys?
demonstrated the importance of touch and contact-comfort to strengthen relationships
500
someone who learns to differentiate among different stimuli
What is stimulus discrimination?
500
poor group decision making that occurs as a result of a group emphasizing unity over critical thinking
What is group think?
500
a disorder in which a person experiences alterations in memory, identity, or consciousness