Thinking and Memory
The retention of memory for some period of time.
What is storage?
Amber, a manager for a large company, wants to motivate her employees by offering them large bonuses for productivity. This is an example of which type of motivation?
What is Extrinsic Motivation?
Changing one's behaviors as a result of other people directing or asking for change.
What is compliance?
What is the partly conscious self-evaluative, moralistic component of personality that is formed through the internalization of parental and societal rules?
What is the Superego?
Learned, relatively enduring feelings (positive or negative) about people, objects, situations, or ideas.
Jane writes a song to help her remember all of her terms for anatomy class. She is utilizing ________ encoding.
What is acoustic encoding?
Reza's low blood sugar signals to his brain that he needs some food. This is an example of ________ theory.
What is Drive Theory?
A police officer tells you to give him your drivers license and you listen, this is an example of?
What is obedience?
________ designed a personality test where each of 16 personality traits was scored on a continuum from high to low.
Who is Raymond Cattell?
An individual’s belief in her own capability to complete a task.
What is Self Efficacy?
Thinking about the meaning of a word and categorizing it into the context of other words you already know is an example of ________ encoding.
What is semantic encoding?
Once a person feels physiologically satisfied, Maslow would say they can then focus on the ________ level in the hierarchy of needs.
What is Security?
Modification of the opinions of members of a group to align with what they believe is the group consensus.
What is Groupthink?
According to Freud, a child who is weaned too early or too late, may become fixated in the ________ stage of development.
What is the Oral stage?
Kathryn eats large meals and then forces herself to vomit afterwards. She probably has ________ nervosa.
What is bulimia?
Someone who understands their own emotions, shows empathy, and understands social relationships and cues would have high ________ intelligence.
What is emotional intelligence?
The Schachter-Singer theory of emotion consists of a ________ along with the physiological component of an experience.
What is cognitive appraisal?
A negative attitude held by a person about the members of a specific group.
What is prejudice?
Wendy is usually really pleasant, gets along well with her team members and is always willing to assist in achieving group targets. Which Big 5 Trait is she most likely to score high in?
What is Agreeableness?
Information kept permanently.
What is long term memory?
Learning how to operate a new program on your computer would require ________ intelligence.
What is fluid intelligence?
A new born baby knowing how to suck to get food is an example of this.
What is an Instinct?
Giselle is a Medical Doctor who understands the harmful effects of smoking, but smokes anyway. She feels some psychological discomfort from her hypocritical behavior. This discomfort is called_______
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
Tomas refuses to admit that he needs to visit the dentist, even though he’s had a toothache for a week. Which defense mechanism does this exemplify?
What is denial?
This theory claims that each individual has an ideal body weight that is resistant to change.
What is Set Point Theory?