Unit 1
This sense is the only sense not processed by the thalamus.
What is smell?
Encoding memory all at once, or cramming is known as this psychological term.
What is massed practice?
This researcher showed us the importance of contact comfort over sustenance in their study with rhesus monkeys.
Who is Harry Harlow?
Asking someone for a smaller, more reasonable task before then asking for a larger, more unreasonable task is known as their persuasive phenomenon.
What is the Foot in the Door phenomenon?
Hallucinations and disorganized speech are both categorized as these types of symptoms in Schizophrenic spectrum disorders.
What are positive symptoms?
Taste is sometimes referred to as this psychological and physiological process.
What is Gustation?
The inability to form new memories after trauma to the brain is known as this type of amnesia.
What is anterograde amnesia?
This researcher showed that fear can in fact be classically conditioned in their, "Little Albert" study.
Who is John B. Watson?
While self-esteem refers to our self concept and self worth, this other concept refers to our belief in our ability to accomplish or complete a task.
What is self-efficacy?
Deep breathing and meditations are both forms of this coping strategy.
What is emotion-focused coping?
This concept refers to the ability to detect a stimulus 50% of the time when presented.
What is Absolute threshold?
Mr. MacKinnon accidentally calls Javi, "Sebastian" (The name of his older brother, who he taught before). This best demonstrates this type of interference.
What is Proactive interference?
When an organism realizes that it has no agency over the outcomes of a situation, they may experience this phenomenon, resulting in fewer or no attempts to change their situation.
What is Learned Helplessness?
This theory of emotion posits that the physical structure of muscles in the face influence our emotional state.
What is the facial-feedback hypothesis?
This domain/approach to psychology emphasizes 6 virtues, including wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance and transcendence.
What is positive psychology?
This researcher gave us our current understanding of split-brained research in psychology.
Who is Michael Gazzaniga?
This phenomenon refers to the gradual increase in IQ over time, as each generation builds on prior information.
What is the Flynn Effect?
This schedule of reinforcement produces the highest rate of response, with the fewest number of reinforcers.
What is variable-ratio reinforcement?
The optimal arousal theory, also known as THIS NAME states that particular activities have the ideal amount of stress needed for ideal performance.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?
This model of explaining disorders claims that individuals have a biological predisposition for disorders, and high levels of anxiety or discomfort could trigger the manifestation of those disorders.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
These two elements are involved in the polarization and depolarization of neurons when firing.
What are Sodium and Potassium?
This 3-word phrase refers to the strengthening of synaptic connections with frequent activation.
What is Long-Term Potentiation?
This type of learning refers to the arrival at a solution to a problem without any prior training, modeling or scaffolding.
What is Insight learning?
This gland, within the hypothalamus is often referred to as the, "Master Gland" due to its' role in regulating the endocrine system.
What is the Pituitary Gland?
Cluster B Personality disorders include these 4 personality disorders. (Most correct gets the points)
What are Antisocial, Narcissistic, Borderline and Histrionic personality disorders?