Sleep
Also known as paradoxical sleep
What is REM sleep?
The declining rate at which information is lost if no particular effort is made to remember it; shows forgetting occurs rapidly after initial acquisition
What is the forgetting curve?
These define expectations and roles a society may have for its members in individual and social situations
What are social norms?
The type of stress that is debilitating
What is distress?
The factor that represents a general intelligence
What is g?
The 24 hour sleep/wake cycle in humans
What is circadian rhythm?
when you forget a previously learnt task due to the learning of a new task.
What is retroactive interference?
an example of a peripheral route to persuasion, where positive impressions influence feelings in other areas
What is the halo effect?
This approach involves seeing stress as a problem to be solved and working solutions until a solution is found.
What is problem-focused coping?
This occurs where individuals feel at risk of confirming negative stereotypes about their social group, often impeding performance on tests
What is stereotype threat?
Also known as sleep walking
What is somnambulism?
The psychoanalytic idea that memories can be forgotten to protect the ego from distress
What is repression?
Demonstrated by Asch, when people adjust behavior to match the normative standards of a social group or situation
What is conformity?
This theory proposes that positive emotional experiences tend to expand awareness and encourage new actions and thoughts
What is the broaden-and-build theory of emotion?
The general increase in IQ scores over time.
What is the Flynn effect?
The theory that dreams are the brain's way of making sense of random electrical signals created during REM sleep
What is activation-synthesis?
Demonstrated by Loftus, where memory impairment is caused by the introduction of misleading information
What is the misinformation effect?
Demonstrated by the Robber's Cave experiment, something that can only be attained by cooperation between two or more groups
What are superordinate goals?
this suggests that the experience of emotion is influenced by facial expressions
What is the facial-feedback hypothesis?
This type of test predicts how one will perform in the future.
What is an aptitude test?
Also known as sleep walking
What is somnambulism?
where an individual remembers factual information but cannot recall the origin or source of that information
What is source amnesia
These psychologists study the best practices in management of work
Who are I/O psychologists?
The researcher best known for work on universal emotions and facial expressions
Who is Ekman?
IQ tests have been used to support this discriminatory view in improving the genetic quality of a human population
What is eugenics?