Definitions 1
Definitions 2
Description
People
Chapter 5&6
100
The mind and behavior of human and animals.
What do psychologists study?
100
The persuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake.
What is basic science?
100
The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure.
Describe a Valid Test
100
They are not ill at all they just have "a problem in living"
What does Thomas Szasz believe about people people whom we label mentally ill?
100
A facility designed to care for the special needs of dying. Comfortably.
What is the goal of hospice care?
200
A set of assumptions used to explain why something is the way it is and happens the way it does.
What is theory?
200
Discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical goals.
Define applied science.
200
a recurring thought or image that seems to be authorities.
Describe an obsession
200
Collective Unconscious
Carl Jung's term for the part of the psyche similar to Freud's "unconscious" is?
200
He must attempt to resolve the conflict between the need to establish a stable life structure.
What usually happens between the ages of 22-28 to males.
300
The internally programmed growth of a child that occurs as a result of automatic, genetically determined signals.
What is Maturation?
300
Positive stress, which results from motivating strivings and challenges.
What is eustress?
300
When you find yourself in a situation that has both enjoyable and disagreeable consequences.
Describe approach-avoidance.
300
Humanism
What was Maslow's alternative to psychoanalysis and behaviorism is called?
400
The process that occurs when new information appears in short-term memory and replaces what was already there.
What is interference?
400
The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time.
What is Absolute Threshold?
400
A coping mechanism in which the person analyzes a situation from an emotionally detached viewpoint.
Describe Intellectualization
400
Freud was the first modern psychologist to suggest that every personality has a large______ component
What is unconscious
400
Dendrites, the cell body, the axon
List Parts of the neuron
500
The studying of dying and death
What is Thanatology?
500
Key Words -Good boy/Nice Girl. Extended family.His or her in-laws will respect him of he steals drugs. Conventional
Define stage 3 of Kohlberg's stages of moral development. or an example
500
The reaction of the body and brain to regulat drug use, whereby a person the original effect.
Describe tolerance to a drug
500
Collective unconsicous and archetypes
What two parts does every person have according to Carl Rogers?
500
making correcting judgements, misses, and false alarms in detecting the prescence of stimuli.
what are the parts of signal-detection theory?
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