Social Items
This term refers to social groups that an individual feels they belong to
These three psychologists attempted to divide the formation of our identity and personality into stages
Who is Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, and Lawrence Kohlberg?
This Gestalt principle states our perception can fill in incomplete objects
What is Law of Closure?
This disorder is characterized by intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors and/or rituals
What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
What are the three components of emotion
What is cognitive, physiological, and behavioral?
This kind of social mobility may change one's occupation, role or location but NOT one's social status/socioeconomic standing
What is horizontal mobility?
This semantic form of encoding works by grouping individual pieces of information into larger, meaningful units
Damage to this CNS structure would lead to uncoordinated movements and difficult maintaining balance
What is Cerebellum?
What is Alzheimer's disease?
This theory states that humans are motivated to satisfy physiological needs in order to maintain homeostasis
What is Drive-reduction theory?
Freud's psychoanalytic theory involves these 3 components of the mind
What is id, ego and superego?
What is Signal Detection Theory?
Decreases in these neurotransmitters is thought to be the cause of depression
What is serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine?
This theory of emotion states that physiological arousal and emotional experience occur simultaneously albeit independently
What is Cannon-Bard Theory?
This term refers to the lack of/breakdown of social norms within a society
What is Anomie
Researchers perform a study on a group of recent college graduates (average age = 24). Which Erikson stage of psychosocial development would these individuals most likely be in?
What is Intimacy vs. Isolation?
What is Top-Down Processing?
What are the 3 groupings that can be used to classify personality disorders based on shared traits?
What is Clusters A, B and C?
What are the 6 universal emotions?
What is: Happiness, Surprise, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust
(Contempt is sometimes seen as emotion 7)
Name 5 agents of socialization
What is:
Family, Friends, Religion, Government, Media, Work, Ethnic background, Social groups, and School
What is the difference between proactive and retroactive interference?
Proactive interference: old memories affect the ability to make new memories
Retroactive interference: new memories affect the storage of old memories
This term describes an airborne and often odorless molecule that are crucial to the behavior of many animals
What are pheromones?
Delusions, hallucinations, abnormal movements and disorganized speech are all ___ symptoms of this disorder: _____
What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Name Maslow's 5 Hierarchy of Needs from bottom to top (most fundamental to most advanced)
What is:
Physiological Needs -> Safety Needs -> Love/Belonging -> Esteem -> Self-Actualization