Biological Psych (U1)
Consisting of the brain and spinal cord, this serves as the primary processing center of the body.
What is the CNS?
This simple thinking strategy or mental shortcut allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently.
What is a Heuristic?
The stage in Piaget's theory that spans from 0-2 years where infants only know the world based on physical observation and motor activity.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
This is the social phenomenon that states that individuals are less likely to help a victim in distress when others are present.
What is the bystander effect?
This is the strategy of coping that attempts to alleviate stress by directly tackling the source of the stressor or how we interact with the stressor.
What is Problem-focused coping?
This vast network of nerves connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body's limbs and organs.
What is the Perhipheral NS?
This step by step procedure is an easy way of approaching a problem, however it is often slow.
What is an Algorithm?
This is the stage in Piaget's theory where, from ages 2-6/7 a child learns to utilize language, but does not comprehend concrete mental operation or logic.
What is the Preoperational stage?
This is the expectation that people will help those dependent upon them and who need assistance.
What is the Social responsibility norm?
This describes the strategy where one attempts to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and instead attending to one's own internal reactions to the stressor?
What is Emotion-focused coping?
This subdivision of the peripheral nervous system allows for voluntary skeletal muscle control and relays sensory input.
What is the Somatic NS
This is a sudden realization of the solution to a problem, often unprovoked.
What is Insight?
This is the stage in Piaget's theory that begins at age 12, that states people can begin to think logically about abstract ideas.
What is the Formal Operational stage?
This describes the act of adjusting behavior or thinking to align with a group's standard.
What is Conformity?
This describes our sense of controlling our own environment rather than being helpless.
What is Personal control?
This branch of the nervous system regulates involuntary body functions like digestion, heartbeat, and breathing.
What is the Autonomic NS?
This is a concern that actualizes itself, that someone will be evaluated based on a negative cultural stereotype.
What is Stereotype threat?
This is the stage in speech development that begins around 4 months, where infants make various sounds spontaneously.
What is the Babbling stage?
This describes an the ability for one to be influenced tue to a need for approval or to avoid disapproval by a group.
What is the Normative Social influence?
This is the perception that chance or fate beyond your control determine your fate.
What is the External locus of control?
This division of the autonomic system arouses the body to expend energy and triggers the "fight or flight" response.
What is the Sympathetic NS?
This is the immediate, and very breif recording of information from the environment (ex. a the scent of a flower) into the memory for immediate use.
What is sensory memory?
This is the stage in speech development where, from about age 1-2, a child speaks with mostly single isolated words.
What is the One-word stage?
This describes the ability for one to be influenced due to one's willingness to accept others opinions about reality as fact.
What is the informational social influence?
This describes the ability for one to control impulses and delay short-term gratification for larger, long-term rewards.
What is self-control?