Cognitive Psych
This type of memory refers to our ability to remember events and information from the past.
What is long-term memory?
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks.
What is narcolepsy?
According to trait theory, this term refers to the degree of which a person is outgoing, energetic, and seeks stimulation from social settings.
What is extraversion?
Intense or irrational fears.
What are phobias?
This nonverbal cue varies from culture to culture and context to context. Americans feel uncomfortable if their listener doesn't make it, however, in China and Japan making it is a sign of disrespect.
What is eye contact?
The act of thinking and processing information.
What is cognition?
This hormone makes you sleepy and is released from the pineal gland.
What is melatonin?
Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism are the factors in this personality theory.
What is "The Big Five"?
This disorder is characterized by recurrent, intrusive thoughts or images and repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed to alleviate anxiety.
What is OCD?
This refers to the distance one needs to keep from other people.
What is personal space?
Mental age divided by chronological (actual) age x 100=
What is IQ?
This biological rhythm is composed of the 24 hour sleep/wake cycle.
What is the circadian rhythm?
The MBTI (Meyers Briggs Type Indicator) is based on this psychologist's archetypes.
Who is Carl Jung?
A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, limited scope of emotional expression, and grotesquely odd behavior.
What is schizophrenia?
This consists of the variations in speech that does not include words. It’s everything that surrounds what you say. It includes pitch of voice, tone, loudness, rhythm, hesitations, body language, how your eyes look, smile or no smile, posture, etc.
What is paralanguage?
A cognitive framework that helps to organize, understand, and interpret information.
What is a schema?
Dreaming occurs during the paradoxical or D sleep cycle and is noted by the movement under the eyelids known as this.
What is REM (Rapid Eye Movement)?
The extent to which you feel you have control over events in your life, the outside world, or what motivates you to take action in a situation, or how you cope with stress, would fall on this continuum.
What is Locus of Control?
A disorder that results from a catastrophic or traumatic event, where they experience flashbacks or re-experiences of it.
What is PTSD?
An internal condition that contains the force of action for arousing, maintaining, directing, and terminating behavior. This "push" is either intrinsic or extrinsic.
What is motivation?
The tendency to recall the initial items or what comes first in a series or list.
What is the primacy effect?
Substances in this category mimic adrenaline, a hormone produced to react to high-stress situations. Caffeine is a well-used form of it.
What is a stimulant?
Walter Mischel designed a study with hundreds of young children to learn more about self-regulation or willpower. This was notably named after the gooey white treat that was used in the study.
What is “The Marshmallow Test”?
If there are hereditary or environmental factors for a personality disorder, this model suggests that a potent, certain stressor has the ability to send the person into having the predisposed disorder.
What is the diathesis model?
This humanist theorist formed the hierarchy of needs pyramid.
Who is Abraham Maslow?