Social Psychology
What is altruism?
This part of the sleep cycle is the only point at which dreaming occurs.
What is REM sleep?
This term represents the basic sounds of a language divorced of all meaning
What is a phoneme?
This refers to a process of learning that involves developing step-by-step approaches to tasks, and requires active cognition to complete.
What is an algorithm?
This part of the brain deals with emotion and is located in the ridge between the parietal and temporal lobes
Insula
Sometimes called the sunk cost fallacy, it is the tendency of people to invest significant time, money or energy into something if they have invested a smaller amount beforehand
What is the Foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
This disorder is characterized by a temporary stoppage of breathing while sleeping, often resulting in the victim waking up suddenly.
What is sleep apnea?
This part of the brain is responsible for speech
Broca's Area
The developing of working and long term memory requires this kind of cognitive activity.
What is Effortful Processing/Ecoding?
This part of the hind brain focuses on regulating breathing, heartbeat and pulse
Medulla
Social psychologists studying aggression developed a principle stating that this emotion is often solely sufficient to lead to aggression.
What is frustration?
This refers to ones ability to delay gratification and control emotions, and indicates a person much more capable of dealing with stress.
What is self-control?
What is grammar?
This memory and studying trick involves breaking down long lists of complex information into groups with related meaning. You probably used it to learn your phone number.
What is chunking?
The connective tissue between the hemispheres of the brain
What is Mere Exposure Effect?
This form of emotion based coping response to stress and trauma involves offering an empathetic ear to someone suffering problems to build a social support group and is common among women and girls.
What is the tend-and-befriend response?
This stage of language acquisition typically happens around age 2, and is demonstrated by the ability to make simple 2-3 word sentences.
What is the telegraphic stage?
When old information interferes or prevents with the acquisition of new information or memories, it is called this:
What is proactive interference?
This part of the brain handles fine motor control
Motor Cortex
This systemic exclusion from society can lead to feelings of depression and self-loathing
What is ostracism?
This idea developed by Hans Selye argues that the body goes through three stages of stress response, first a flight or fight response, followed by resistance and finally exhaustion
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
If someone is suffering from aphasia, it is likely due to damage in this part of the brain.
What is Wernicke's area?
When someone is confronted with a seemingly familiar but actually different problem, they often become frustrated that they can't solve it, likely because they're relying on this.
This part of the brain handles gross motor and earliest childhood memory
Cerebellum
What is the bystander effect?
A common cause of stress and tension in cases of accident, illness or sudden death, is this deeply held social belief which argues that people get what they deserve.
What is the "just world phenomenon"
What is affect?
This refers to the fact that when we memorize long sets of data, we tend have an easier time remembering the data points at the beginning or end of a list
What is the serial position effect?
The ear drum, which transmits sound waves as vibration is present in this part of the ear.
What is the outer ear?