Miscellaneous
Behavioral and Cognitive Science
Emotions
Cultural, Social, and Interpersonal Factors
Life-Span Development
100
___________ explores factors that account for positive attitudes and happiness.
What is positive psychology? (pg. 54)
100
When rats or animals encounter a situation in which their behavior has no effect on their environment they give up attempting to cope, which leads to depression.
What is Learned Helplessness? (pg. 53)
100
The alarm reaction that activates during potentially life-threatening emergencies.
What is flight or fight response? (pg. 56)
100
Phobias are powerfully influenced by _________.
What is gender? (pg. 60)
100
Developmental changes occur throughout ___________.
What is the life-span? (pg. 63)
200
This science is concerned with how we acquire and process information and how we store and retrieve it.
What is cognitive science? (pg. 53)
200
When people display optimism and an upbeat attitude, they function better psychologically and physically
What is Learned Optimism? (pg. 53)
200
_______ are usually short-lived, temporary states lasting minutes to hours. A/an ________ is more persistent period of affect or emotionality.
What is mood and emotion? (pg. 57)
200
_________ increases the risk of death about the same amount as smoking cigarettes and physical inactivity or obesity.
What is social isolation? (pg. 61)
200
We must consider a number of paths to a given outcome.
What is the principle of equifinality? (pg. 63)
300
According to _________ we have become highly prepared for learning about certain types of objects or situations, in order to survive changes of evolution.
What is prepared learning? (pg. 55)
300
The psychologist who claimed organisms do not have to experience certain events in an environment to learn effectively.
Who is Albert Bandura? (pg. 54)
300
Emotion scientists now agree that emotion is composed of these three related components.
What is behavior, physiology, and cognition? (pg. 57)
300
____________ are characterized by exaggerated state responses and other reactions associated with fear and anxiety.
What is fright disorder? (pg. 59)
300
The goals of equifinality are to ________ disorders, _______ those who suffer from them, and ________ some cases from happening.
What is understand, assist, and prevent? (pg. 64)
400
In the United States their are approximately _________ mental health professionals to serve almost _______ million people.
What is 200,000 MHP and 300 (million people)? (pg. 63)
400
The term ________ refers to unobservable feelings and cognitions inferred from an individual's self report.
What is blackbox? (pg. 53)
400
The momentary emotional tone that accompanies what we say or do.
What is affect? (pg. 57)
400
Surveys from World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that mental health disorders account for ________ of the global burden of disease.
What is 13%? (pg. 63)
400
The gender distribution in depression is equal until _______, when it becomes more common in girls.
What is puberty? (pg. 63)
500
He viewed emotions as primarily a brain function.
Who is Walter Cannon? (pg. 57)
500
A condition in memory in which a person acts on the basis of things that have happened in the past but can't remember the events.
What is implicit memory? (pg. 55)
500
People suffering from this disorder usually alternate periods of excitement with periods of extreme sadness and distress.
What is mania/bipolar disorder? (pg. 59)
500
A response to stress that involves protecting themselves and their young through nurturing behavior and forming alliances with larger groups.
What is Tend and Befriend? (pg. 61)
500
Erikson's theory of psychosocial development has been criticized for ________ and _________.
What is being too vague and not supported by research? (pg. 63)
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