the GENERAL term for an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, or natural disaster. Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical.
What is trauma?
100
The way the group I belong to expects me to behave. Expected, average, behaviors.
What are norms?
100
The molecule that codes life.
What is DNA (or Deoxyribonucleic acid)
100
The father of Psychology
Who is Wundt
100
The name given by psychologists to the over-arching model of studying the human mind at three levels.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
200
an anxiety problem caused by a traumatic event, such as combat, a natural disaster or crime, or even a traffic accident. Caused by a severe trauma.
What is PSTD?
200
These are the beliefs I have and share with a particular group.
What are values?
200
Darwin's "survival of the fittest" idea that evolution chooses individuals that are able to live long enough to pass their genes on to the next generation.
What is Natural Selection
200
Wundt used this method to study the human mind.
What is Introspection?
200
Medical doctors (M.D.s) who take additional classes on the human mind. They are able to prescribe medicine. Often confused with Psychologists.
What are Psychiatrists?
300
He is credited with being a founder of Social Psychology but unfortunately, this Russian died at the early age of 37.
Who is Lev Vygotsky
300
A group that has shared norms and values. Can be small, like a classroom or family, or large, like an ethnicity, gender, or age-group.
What is a culture?
300
Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identification.
What is individualism
300
Came up with the equation, f(P, E) that basically said that humans are the product of the interaction of genetics (nature) and environment (nurture).
Who is Lewin?
300
The name given to the the basic cell of the brain.
What is a neuron?
400
According many European and Asian cultures, a big problem with the United States is that it is too much a(n) ___________ culture.
What is Individualist
400
Placing the group above the individual. Countries like China are well know for this, while countries like the United States are on the opposite end.
What is Collectivism?
400
The amount of a quality, like muscle tone or shyness, that is genetically inherited (as opposed to environmentally produced)
What is heritability?
400
He was known to feel people's scalps to "diagnose" their personality.
Who was Francis Gall?
400
Every time Glenda the Good Witch sees a house flying, she gets very frightened. What kind of correlation is there between her seeing flying houses and her level of fear? (must state strength and direction)
What is a strong positive correlation?
500
He was getting along well with the new student sitting in the chair next to him until he got closer and closer and apparently got too close to her __________
What is personal space? (or interpersonal space)
500
Name given to any person, group or institution that appears to act like an individual - wanting to promote its own norms and values, grow and reproduce.
What are Social Agents
500
The total amount of genetic information in the chromosomes of an organism, including its genes and DNA sequences.
What is the organism's genome?
500
Founded the school of Functionalism, which approached the study of the mind with the idea that different parts of the brain do different things.
Who is William James?
500
A test has a mean average of 70 and a standard deviation of 10. Ninety-five percent of all test takers can be expected to have a score between ____ and _____.
What is "between 50 and 90" (which is 2 standard deviations from the mean in both directions)