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An evolutionary psychology term defined as attempting to arrange human reproduction in a way that prioritizes heritable traits regarded as "desirable".
What is eugenics?
Perceptions of an incoming stimulus based on the senses
What is bottom-up processing?
Harmful agents passed from the mother to the fetus
What are teratogens?
The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change
What is cognitive dissonance?
Positive stress
What is eustress?
The part of the nervous system that controls the brain and spinal cord, including thinking and reflexes.
What is the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
A mental disposition to perceive one thing and not another (ex: graveyard at night is scary, graveyard during the day is not scary)
What is perceptual set?
The stage of cognitive development in which object permanence develops.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The perception by an individual that the amount of a desired resource they have is less than some comparison person
What is relative deprivation?
Thoughts, feelings, and actions associated with distinct positive emotions
What are positive subjective experiences?
The neurons that transmit messages from extremities to the CNS
What are Sensory/Afferent Neurons?
Subconscious tendencies to approach a problem in a particular way
What is a mental set?
The smallest distinctive unit of meaning in a word
What is a morpheme?
The belief that people deserve what they get out of life
What is just-world hypothesis?
Repetitive thoughts, images, or impulses & repetitive and often meaningless behaviors that are difficult to control
What are obsessions and compulsions?
The neurotransmitter responsible for mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal
What is serotonin?
Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare
What are explicit/declarative memories?
The language milestone achieved at about 2 years old, where 2 word sentences are used to communicate
What is telegraphic speech?
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs
What is the false-consensus effect?
A symptom of schizophrenia that causes patients to be incapable of movement of speech
What is catatonia?
A statistical measure that shows the strength of the relationship between 2 variables
What is effect size?
Making a connection to things already stored in long term memory to new concepts
What is elaborative rehearsal?
Occurs when the solution to a problem occurs without any association, consequence, or model being present
What is insight learning?
A desire present in all living things that pushes the organism towards growth
What is actualizing tendency?
Describe the three stages of general adaptation syndrome
Stage 1: Alarm -> fight or flight
Stage 2: Resistance -> body attempts to normalize by raising adrenaline and cortisol
Stage 3: Exhaustive -> stress weakens the immune system