Thinking and memory
The retention of memory for some period of time.
What is storage?
The scientific study of behavioral and thought processes.
What is psychology?
Changing one's behaviors as a result of other people directing or asking for change.
What is compliance?
Physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening and challenging.
What is stress?
Learned, relatively enduring feelings (positive or negative) about people, objects, situations, or ideas.
The mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is processing information.
What is cognition?
A German psychologist who created the first lab in Germany and expands on the idea of structuralism.
Who is Wilhel Wundt?
A police officer tells you to give him your drivers license and you listen, this is an example of?
What is obedience?
The three stages of the body's psychological adaptation to stress.
What is the General Adaptation Syndrome?
Learning through past experience to be helpless without trying.
What is learned helplessness?
The knowledge and skills people have in monitoring and controlling their own learning and memory.
What is metacognition?
Submitting psychological research to be peer reviewed and publicized.
What are psychological journals?
The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.
What is cognitive dissonance?
The kind of study used to find a link or relationship between two variables.
What is a correlation study?
The feeling of closeness, connectedness, and busyness in loving relationships.
What is intimacy?
Kate thinks that her sister is her sister, Annie, is mean. She only notices when her sister is not nice to her while ignoring Annie's many acts of kindness. This exemplifies ______
What is confirmation bias?
Going into a person or animals natural setting to observe them.
What is naturalistic observation?
A negative attitude held by a person about the members of a specific group.
What is prejudice?
Coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stress or reduce its impact through direct actions.
What is problem-focused coping?
Information kept permanently.
What is long term memory?
Visual sensory memory, lasting only a fraction of a second.
What is iconic memory?
High values of one variable being associated with low values of the other.
What is a negative correlation?
The study held by Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo in 1973
What is the Stanford Prison Study?
Coping strategies that change the impact of a stressor by changing the emotional reaction of a stressor.
What is emotion-focused coping?
Auditory sensory memory, lasting 2-4 seconds.
What is echoic memory?