Pyschology
As A Science
As A Science
This question asks whether a person's genes or upbringing is more important than a person's environment.
What is the nature-nurture question?
With the exception of smell, all sensory nerve impulses are routed through this part of the brain.
What is the thalamus?
When trying to remember something we often remember it a bit differently sometimes adding or subtracting something, also known as this:
What is recontruction?
Human development is multidimensional, meaning that multiple domains or aspects of a person develop at the same time. These dimensions are interconnected rather than isolated and include the following: physical, congnitive, and this __________.
What is Psychosocial Dimension? (This encompasses emotions, personality, self-concept, and interpersonal relationships)
Name of the experiment led by Psychologist Philip Zimbardo that demonstrated authoritarian behaviors of "guards" toward "prisoners," who displayed significant psychological distress.
What is the Stanford Prision Experiment?
When a clear relationship between two or more varaibles or sets of data is present it is called this.
What is a correlation?
Out of the hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain this is the largest and most recently evolved division of the brain containing areas for reasoning, and language.
What is the forebrain?
I proposed that consciousness operates like an iceberg. The tip is immediate awarness, the bulk is a storage area for thoughts and feelings and the hidden part is the uncouncious level containin primitive instincts. Who am I?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Called the Building Blocks of Knowledge these are mentalframeworks or organized patterns of thought that help individuals interpret and categorize information.
What are schemas?
This phenomenon occurs when when a person's expectations about another cause that person to behave in ways confirming those expectations.
What is Self-fulfilling prophecy?
When samples are chosen at random it has a high chance of being this since type of sample since it has the same proportions of diffent types of people found in the general population.
What is a represntative sample?
What is bottom-up processing?
Name of the mental models that capture the most typical or representative example of a category. For instance, when people think about birds, they typically imagine flying creatures like sparrows with wings that lay eggs.
What is a prototype?
One of the mechanisms of cognitive change is accomodation, or the adjustment or motification of an existing schema, the other is this which occurs when new information fits into an existing schema without changing its structure
What is accomodation?
Refers to the psychological phenomenon where repeated exposure to the same person or group increases our liking—or sometimes disliking—of them. It is a foundational factor in friendship formation.
What is The Mere Exposure Effect?
This type of reserach consists of one or more varaible being deliberatley changed.
What is an experiement?
This system includes the brain and spinal cord which does most of the information processing, and is involved with memories.
What is the central nervous system?
__________ are complex psychological and physiological experiences that influence human behavior through feeling, responding, and motivating our actions.
What are emotions?
The second stage of development propsed by Piaget that occurs between ages 2-7 where children develop symbolic thinkingand use language, but they struggle with understanding others' perspectives .
What is the Preoperational stage?
This theory explores how people explain the causes of behavior and events. Why do people do what they do? The theory states two main types of attributions:
Dispositional Attribution (Personal): Assigning the cause of behavior to internal characteristics "she studied hard"
Situational Attribution: Assigning the cause of behavior to external factors or circumstances. "the test was easy."
If the behavior lacks uniqueness or consistency, situational attribution is more likely.
What is attribution theory?
An unittended influence that makes a study less objective --often found in the wording of questions or by interviewers who may direct respondents to give a particular answer.
What is bias?
Since nuron transmission relies on both electrical process with the neurons as well as a chemical process that takes place in the synapse is said to be this type of system.
What is an electrochemical system?
The Cannon- ________ Theory explains how the brain probessses emotional experiences through different neural pathways suggesting that when sensory information enters the brain, the thalamus plays a crucial role in transmitting signals to two distinct brain regions The limbic system - responsible for emotional processing and the frontal lobes - responsible for cognitive interpretation and awareness
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?
The James-Lange theory suggests that emotions are not triggered first by mental processes, but rather by this. In other words, we do not cry because we are sad; instead, we experience sadness because we are crying.
what are physical bodily reactions?
Self-schemas are made up of all the information we have gathered since childhood about who we are. Three important components of a self-schema are self-concept, self-esteem, and self-efficacy which refers to how we believe we are able to do certain tasks such as
"I am good at writing poetry it comes easy to me and I have won several poetry contests"
What is self-efficacy?