Information Processing
This part of the information processing model briefly holds incoming stimuli from the environment in its original form, usually lasting only a few seconds.
Sensory Memory/Register
According to psychologist Mary Ainsworth, this type of attachment style is shown when a baby is distressed when the caregiver leaves and is quickly comforted upon their return.
What is Secure?
According to Self-Determination Theory, you can boost intrinsic motivation by supporting these three psychological needs:
What are autonomy, belonging, and competency?
When exposure to certain words, images, or experiences influences how we later interpret or respond to information (often unconsciously) this psychological process is at work
What is priming?
This is the most common anxiety disorder, marked by excessive, uncontrollable worry about a variety of everyday situations for at least six months.
What is GAD?
This process acts like a filter, selecting which sensory information gets passed along to working memory.
What is attention?
This cognitive milestone allows children to understand that other people have thoughts, beliefs, and perspectives different from their own.
What is Theory of Mind?
This dimension of emotions is illustrated by a nervous person profusely sweating.
What is bodily activation?
This social behavior was demonstrated in Solomon Asch’s famous line experiment, participants often gave incorrect answers just to go along with the group.
What is conformity?
A person with this disorder experiences sudden episodes of intense fear and physical symptoms like a racing heart and shortness of breath, often without a clear trigger.
What is panic disorder?
This is the number of pieces of information you can typically juggle in working memory?
What is 7?
Research suggests that this commonly believed emotional upheaval in middle adulthood is not as universal or inevitable as once thought.
What is midlife crisis?
Adding a reward to an activity that a person already enjoys introduces this type of motivation.
What is extrinsic?
These are the big 5 personality traits.
This is the difference between OCD and OCPD.
What is OCD is about rituals and intrusive thoughts, whereas OCPD is about rigidity and order.
This process transforms information from working memory into a more permanent form for storage in long-term memory.
What is encoding?
This form of discrimination is unique because it eventually impacts the people who are typically doing the discriminating.
What is ageism?
These are the four steps in emotion regulation
What is situation, appraisal, emotion, action?
What is Milgram's Shock Study?
Many personality disorders have roots in early life experiences. These two psychosocial risk factors are among the most commonly associated with the later development of personality disorders.
What are childhood trauma and problematic parenting?
This encoding strategy involves making connections between new information and the long terms memory
What is Elaboration?
This term is used to describe the difference in adolescence between the emotional and pre-frontal development?
What is the Maturity Gap?
These are the three dimensions of attributions
What is stability, controllability, locus of control?
While the Big Five personality test is supported by strong empirical research, this popular but scientifically questionable personality assessment sorts people into 16 types based on four dichotomies like introversion vs. extraversion.
What is the MBTI?
Research suggests that a disproportionately high number of incarcerated individuals meet criteria for at least one personality disorder. What percentage of the prison population is estimated to have a diagnosable personality disorder?
What is 40-60%?