Psychological Approaches
Learning
Memory
Abnormal Psychology
Social Psychology
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Name the seven psychological approaches.
Biological, Evolutionary, Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Cognitive, Humanistic, and Social cultural
100
What strengthens response by presenting a typically pleasurable stimulus after a response?
Positive Reinforcement
100
What is the capacity of the working memory?
seven plus or minus two items.
100
Howie Mandel suffers from what kind of disorder?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
100
A tendency for people who agree to a small action to comply later to a larger one is?
Foot in the door phenomenon.
200
What does the Biological approach focus on?
How the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences.
200
Getting food when hungry or having a painful headache go away would be a....
Primary Reinforcer
200
What are the three kinds of encoding?
Visual, Acoustic, and semantic.
200
In this disorder depression is living in slow motion and mania is fast forward?
Bipolar Disorder.
200
Adjusting our behavior or thinking toward some group standard.
Conformity.
300
What does the Psychodynamic approach focus on?
How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts.
300
What is the desire to behave in certain ways to receive external rewards or avoid punishment?
Extrinsic Motivation
300
What are the types of long term memory?
Explicit and Implicit.
300
A person (typically male) that lacks of conscience becomes plain before age 15, as he begins to lie, steal, fight, or display unrestrained sexual behavior would have?
Antisocial Personality Disorder.
300
After a light turns green, drivers take about 15% less time to travel the first 100 yards when another car is beside them at the intersection then when they are alone is because of....
Social Facilitation.
400
What does the Humanistic approach focus on?
How we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self fulfillment.
400
Albert Banduras famous "bobo doll" experiment explained what kind of learning?
Observational Learning
400
Explicit memories of names, images, and events lay in what part of the brain?
The Hippocampus.
400
What could be a genetic factor of Schizophrenia?
Fetal Virus infections, or an inherited predisposition.
400
A mix of beliefs, emotions, and predispositions to action is?
Prejudice.
500
What does the Cognitive approach focus on?
How we encode, process, store, and retrieve info.
500
Like a green traffic light, it signals that a response will be reinforced.
Discriminative Stimulus
500
When someone has been exposed to subtle misinformation they may misremember an event.
Misinformation Effect.
500
A disease of the brain exhibited in symptoms of chemical imbalances in the brain that produce hallucinations and delusions?
Schizophrenia.
500
The idea we commonly teach our children that good is rewarded and evil is punished.
Just World Phenomenon.
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