Intro/Methods of Psychology
Body and Mind
Learning and Cognition
Heath and Adjustment
Developmental Psychology
100
Wilhelm Wundt
Who is the founder of psychology?
100
minimum difference between two stimuli that is just detectable by a person/ paint chips various shades of blue for example
What is difference threshold?
100
Type of influences on intelligence that include parenting styles, schooling, peer influences, activities you participate in; type of influences on intelligence that include heritability (inherited traits)
What are environmental, and biological influences on intelligence?
100
Stress can keep a person on his/her toes and motivate him or her
What are ways stress can be good?
100
age frame at which women are more likely to experience menopause
What happens to women in your late 40's to early 50's?
200
This type of research design is most appropriate for showing cause and effect
What is correlational?
200
sleeping disorder in which a person falls asleep at inappropriate times and for no reason
What is narcolepsy?
200
refers to how elements of our physical surroundings become embedded into our learning of new information, and thus exposure to various surroundings impacts what information we will remember well at any given time.
What is context-dependent memory?
200
Type ___ is high strung, aims for perfection and is at higher risk of heart disease; Type ____ is more relaxed and at a lower risk of heart disease
What are type A and type B (In that order)?
200
Ways adolescent girls develop earlier than adolescent boys.
What is physical development; they have their growth spurt earlier than boys
300
When doing a study psychologists must let participants know the general nature of the study so they can decide if they want to participate.
What is informed consent?
300
part of the unconscious mind common to all humans. It is associated with Carl Jung
What is collective unconscious?
300
You get consistent results with one of these and the other measures what it is supposed to
What is reliability and validity of a test?
300
Delusions, paranoia, word salad, disorganized thought, catatonia
What are the symptoms of schizophrenia?
300
Adolescents and their parents generally agree on these types of matters.
What are broad matters (big things like religion, politics) not the small things like music and dress?
400
This psychological science (approach) attempts to relate overt (observable) responses to observable environmental stimuli
What is the behavioral approach?
400
total sensory deprivation over long periods of time on adults has this kind of effect on them
What is hallucinations
400
Sensory memory Short-term memory Long-term memory in the above order
How is memory processed (order of ) according to information processing theory?
400
is a defense mechanism in which you take out your frustrations, feelings, and impulses on people or objects that are less threatening ex. Husband mad at wife, but instead of hitting her he punches the wall.
What is displacement?
400
A type of thinking when preschool children see their world only from their own point of view; they feel the world revolves around them
What is egocentiric thinking?
500
These are the 6 approaches to psychology.
What are Biological Cognitive Humanistic Psychoanalytic Behavioral (Learning) Sociocultural
500
hypnosis is most useful in society as a whole according to current psychological research for this
What is pain control?
500
These biological and learned reinforcers are automatic and learned.
What are primary and secondary reinforcers?
500
People have physical symptoms (complaints) that cannot be accounted for by physical evidence. It is all in their head. Examples are conversion disorder and hypochondrias.
What are somatoform disorders?
500
order of the stages for accepting death according to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
What are denial, anger, bargaining, depression,and acceptance?
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