unit 1
What is the difference between the sympathic and parasympathetic nervous system?
The sympathetic nervous system prepares the body for "fight or flight"
Parasympathetic rest and digest
What’s top down processing
refers to the way the brain uses existing knowledge and expectations to interpret new sensory information.
What is the first stage of language development?
Babbling stage
An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting Is called…
Personality
What is the social interaction which one person suggest to another that certain perception, feeling,etc will spontaneously occur
Hypnosis
What is the brains ability to change in response to both experience and damage
neuroplasticity
What’s the forgetting curve
The decline in memory over time
What are the 3 major themes in developmental psychology
who created the Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Theory
Sigmund Freud
What is bipolar personality disorder
a mental health condition characterized by extreme mood swings, ranging from periods of elevated mood (mania or hypomania) to periods of depression
what brain structures would affect the processing of new explicit memories
Hippocampus
what is the Serial position affect?
where the order in which items are presented in a list affects how well they are remembered
After daisy firgot to water the plants in the fromt yard, she was grounded for a week-even before her parents heard what might have caused daisy to forget about her chore
which parenting style do daisy’s parents use?
Authoritarian
Claire has had several car accidents that she blames on other drivers, believing that they are just bad at driving. Which psychological concepts applies to this scenario?
Fundamental attribution error
What are the 3 GAS stages
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
What is nature and nuture?
the extent to which our genes (nature) versus our environment and experiences (nurture) influence our traits, behaviors, and development
John has noticed that he does better on his chemistry exams when he takes them in the same seat in which he sits during class than when he sits in a different seat for an exam, this is called?
Context-dependent memory
John was born with male and female biological sexual characteristics. What term or phrase describes this phenomeno?
Intersex
What’s the bystander effect?
The bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon where individuals are less likely to help others in need when other people are present
What’s a therapeutic allianc?
A bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client
Nicholas can tell the difference between different pitches because his cochlea’s basilar membrane is stimulated in different areas. Nicholas’ experiences aligns with what theory?
Place theory
What is it called to struggle to form new memories after a specific event, like brain injury?
Anterograde amnesia
Who created classical conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov
What are the big 5 personality traits
Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior is called…
Psychosurgery