Unit 1
All nerves in the body other than the brain and spinal cord nerves- divided into two main categories
Peripheral Nervous System
Example- You are asked if you think parrot bites or shark attacks are more common and you say shark attacks because you saw the film "Jaws". In reality...parrot bites are way more common. What happened?
Availability Heuristic
A child incorporates an experience into an already existing schema
Assimilation
The "negotiator" in Freud's theories...balances the id and the superego
Ego
Disorder caused by unstable mood categorized by highs followed by intense lows
Bipolar Disorder
Type of research- think Jane Goodall and the chimps
Naturalistic Observation
More likely to remember something when you have the same mood...ex. annoyed at a friend makes you remember how you are also annoyed by your mom
Mood Congruent Memory
The addition of something unpleasant to change behavior..operant conditioning!
Positive Punishment
Example: Beatrix feels her teacher does not like her writing style. She stops trying and says "what's the point?" She barely tries on her paper and gets a poor grade. "I knew it" she exclaims
Self Fulfilling Prophecy
Sales strategy- Huge ask (Mr. Harpole, can we get a week extension on a test?)...assumes he will say no... goes with the real ask ("Can we get a 2 day extension on a test?")
Door in the face technique
Processing new information without being able to rely on previously learned info...having to take it all in
Bottom Up Processing
Ex. You take Psych at 3 PM and Sociology at 6 PM. When you take your psych quiz the next day, you have a hard time recalling it.
Retroactive Interference
Creator of psychosocial develpoment... "Life Stages theory"
Erik Erikson
Our bodies "ideal weight"..hard to lose weight beyond it, but fairly easy to lose weight, when you go over it.
Set Point
Antisocial
Snail shaped and fluid filled...allows for the process of transduction for sound waves
Cochela
Smallest amount of stimulus that we can perceive
Absolute Threshold
Learning from observing others
Social Learning Theory
Overestimating how many people agree with you. Ex- you love reality tv and are shocked when all your coworkers hate it.
False Consensus Effect
Humanist Psychology- acceptance of patient no matter what info they divulge
Unconditional Positive Regard
Sleep disorder- stop breathing when sleeping and causing someone to wake up and gasp for air.
Sleep apnea
Most Common IQ test
Stanford Binet
Adding more elements to conditoning
Higher (Second Order) conditioning
A type of goal...often used to help hostile groups work toward a common goal. (ex. robbers cave)
Various outdated therapies that cause physical harm-
Lobotomy, electroshock therapy