Unit 1
What is ghrelin?
This is where differences in stimulus' are not perceived due to inattention
What is Change Blindness?
These are threats to a fetus that can cause developmental problems, stillbirth and miscarriage.
What are teratogens?
This is when the ego protects the client by not allowing a memory to be recalled, such as in cases of trauma.
What is repression?
This is typically measurable and concise so that a research study can be performed again for accuracy.
What is an operational definition?
This is when someone is unable to stay awake, resulting in forced sleep
What is narcolepsy?
Two examples of this are retinal disparity and convergence
What are Binocular Cues?
These are points in the babies development where certain milestones should be made to maintain healthy development.
What are critical/sensitive periods?
Examples of doing things for reasons like this are money, food, wanting a favor, and/or an award.
What are extrinsic motivators?
This research method is intended to find connections, trends, patterns and associations.
What is a correlational study?
This sensation theory explains after images
What is Opponent Process Theory?
These are how we make quick decisions using our schemas, but they can be wrong.
What are heuristics?
These are the 4 stages of Piaget's Development
What are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational stage?
What is drive-reduction theory?
Taking away a students phone because they were breaking rules would be an example of this concept in operational conditioning.
What is negative punishment?
This is a neurotransmitter that decreases neural activity and acts as an inhibitor.
GABA
This is when someone remembers the beginning of a list but not the middle and end.
What is primacy effect?
This is the smallest unit of language that has meaning.
What are morphemes?
What is consciousnesses?
The bell/metronome in Pavlov's dog experiment would be considered this.
What is the neutral/conditioned stimulus?
This is when the body reabsorbs leftover neurotransmitters that the body didn't use (its what the R in SSRI stands for).
Reuptake
SAT, ASVAB, and other collegiate/career oriented tests are examples of this.
What is an aptitude test?
This is the first stage of Erikson's where a baby must learn where there care and affection will come from.
A client who is imaginative and free thinking would score highest in this part of the Big 5?
What is Openness?
Even though someone has been given evidence to prove them wrong, they still continue to keep their opinion due to this term.
What is belief perseverance?