Unit 1
Function of Frontal Lobe
voluntary motor function, high-level cognition, personality expression, and language production
Understanding processes effortlessly
What is automatic encoding?
Piaget's Development Theory
What is 4 Stages of Development(Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational, formal operational)
Difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
What is intrinsic is internal factors, extrinsic is external factors?
theory suggesting tension occurs when our attitudes and our behaviors don't match
What is Cognitive Dissonance
Ideal Nap Conditions
20 minutes powernap, cool & dark environment
Theory of remembering the first and last few subjects in a list
What is Serial Position Effect?
Vygotsky's Theory
What is social interaction and culture drive are primary drivers for cognitive growth
theory suggesting that needs like dehydration create a drive
What is Drive Reduction Therapy?
Focuses on facts, logic, and content. It requires the audience to be motivated and pay attention.
What is the Central Route of persuasion?
lobe of the brain associated with vision
What is the occipital lobe?
Type of processing that begins with soaking in sensory input from the environment
What is bottom up processing?
3 Types of parenting styles
What is Authoritarian, Authoritative, and Permissive
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
What are the Big 5 Personality Traits?
what is it called when we tend to overestimate personality and underestimate the situation
What is Fundamental Attribution Error?
Brain Plasticity
What is the brain's ability to change and heal itself throughout life?
Process of grouping items based on the likeness of each item
What is Proximity?
Vygotsky's Scaffolding
How work environments and management styles influence worker motivation, satisfaction, and productivity
What is Industrial-Organizational Therapy?
When you search for, interpret, or remember information that confirms your beliefs while ignoring evidence that contradicts them.
What is Confirmation Bias?
Purpose of Dopamine and Serotonin
What is dopamine is associated with reward, pleasure, and motivation.Serotonin is associated with mood regulation, hunger, and sleep.
Snapshots of significant moments in ones life
What is Flashbulb Memory?
Difference between positive and negative punishment
What is adding or taking away a stimulus?
This school rejected the "dark" view of Psychoanalysis and the "mechanical" view of Behaviorism. It focuses on human potential, free will, and the idea that people are inherently good and striving for self-improvement
What is the school of thought supported by Maslow and Carl Rogers?
Seeing members of a different group as all the same.
What is out-group homogeneity?