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What is the Pomodoro Technique?
Time management technique, where you set a timer for 25 mins, take a 5 min break and repeat until the task is finished.
What's an IRB?
Institutional Review Board
What's a flashbulb memory?
iconic memories generally about the most significant and emotionally charged moments
What is I-O Psychology?
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
What's the hindsight bias?
belief that the event just experienced was predictable
What's classical conditioning?
Ex. Pavlov's dogs.
a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response which is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.
What's the ABC model?
Activating Event: something happens
Belief: you have a belief about what happened
Consequence: emotional response to a belief
Name a model of well-being and it's components.
PERMA
What were Stanely Milgram's obedience studies?
The participant sat in front of a machine that thought was providing shocks to another person and despite wanting to stop they were directed to keep going.
What the difference between a job, career, and calling?
job - pays the bills
career - focused on upward mobility
calling - plays an integral part in and individuals life
Philip Zimbardo put undergrads in a mock prison. Tensions quickly escalated so they needed to end the experiment early. The guards subjected the prisoners to psychological abuse.
What's the difference between implicit and explicit memory?
Implicit - retention independent of conscious recollection
Explicit - consciously work to remember
What's CBT?
Cognitive behavioral therapy
What's the DSM?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
What are two different kinds of praise? examples?
traits: praising who someone is
efforts: praising what someone has done
Name 2 benefits of knowing more than 1 language.
Boost brain power
Improves memory
Keeps the mind sharper
Enhances decision-making skills
Improved reading comprehension
What were the line conformity studies?
What is the purpose of an IRB?
To protect the welfare of human research participants.
What are HQCs?
High-Quality Connections
Short term interactions between two people that leave both parties feeling energized.
Describe the bottleneck theory of attention
We can't pay attention to everything around us. So we can only take in so much the narrowing of the bottleneck represents that we can only process some of the information we take in.
What's the difference between assimilation and accommodation? (in the context of memory)
Assimilation - attempt to fit the outside world into existing schemas
Accommodation - modify schemas to fit new information
What are some of the benefits of the DSM?
Provides a standard for diagnosis ensuring that one person should get the same diagnosis and in turn treatment no matter what provider they go see.
What the differences between organizational psychology and industrial psychology?
Organizational is focused more on the impacts an organization has on an individual
Where industrial is focused on helping an individual preform at the highest level
What's the misinformation effect? Provide example
Being exposed to leading questions (misinformation) can alter and distort our memories
What's the difference between mindfulness and meditation?
Meditation is a way to practice mindfulness.
You can be mindful and do anything but meditation is a formal practice.