Cognition Part 2
Development and Intelligence
Motivation, Emotion
Personality
Clinical Psych
100
When considering the ideal teacher, students envision Mr. Chadwick. Mr. Chadwick is an example of...
What is a prototype?
100
Understanding objects are still in their place even when not immediately visible.
What is object permanence?
Bonus: This^ concept develops at this specific stage of development.
100
A physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
What is drive-reduction theory?
Bonus: What is the goal of drive-reduction theory?
100
Long term personal characteristics
Stable across situations
Stabilize around adulthood
These all describe:
What are personality traits?
100
The field of psychology that attempts to understand, prevent and treat mental disorders.
What is clinical psychology?
Bonus (300 pts): What does a clinical psychologist do?
200
Clay was cooking dinner and needed to simmer some vegetables for the next ten minutes. He got frustrated because he had misplaced the lid-cover for the pan. He could not find it and his anger boiled over. Listening to his frustration, Rachel came in and grabbed a plate and placed it overtop of the pan. Clay was exhibiting this cognition pitfall.
What is functional fixedness?
200
When a child can't actively predict another person's perspective of a novel situation, they lack this cognitive ability.
What is theory of mind?
200
Yerkes-Dodson law states:
What is--that there is an optimal level of arousal for achieving the best performance on any task?
--The more complex the task, the lower the level of arousal that can be tolerated without impeding upon performance.
200
This need within Maslow's hierarchy describes reaching a state of complete fulfillment and meeting one's full potential.
What is self-actualization?
200
An intense state of uneasiness, apprehension, uncertainty and fear.
What is anxiety?
Bonus (300 pts): What is the difference between Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder?
300
Our brain's compulsion to stick with a losing choice, primarily because we have already invested time or effort (or money) into it.
What is the sunk cost fallacy?
Bonus: This is the tendency to cling to our beliefs in the face of contradicting evidence.
300
Describe secure attachment.
What is the baby explores freely when in sight of the mother, will engage with strangers? Slightly upset when mother leaves.
Bonus: Describe anxious attachment.
300
These two hormones control the physiological feelings of hunger and feeling full. Identify which is which.
What is leptin(feeling full) and ghrelin(feeling hunger)?
Bonus(400 pts): Damage to the _______________ leads to obesity.
300
The actual version of your self vs. the version you want to be.
What is perceived vs. ideal self?
300
John is obsessed with balance and evenness. Walking along the sidewalk he makes sure to get the same number of steps between each break in the sidewalk.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Bonus (200 pts): This is an intense and irrational fear of objects, places or things.
400
Tim makes a judgement simply based on what information is in front of him. Don't be like Tim. Tim utilized this cognitive reasoning.
What is availability heuristic?
Bonus: Describe representative heuristic.
400
Each stage in life brings a battle between an adaptable outcome and a lack of adaptation. This battle in social development is best described as:
What is a crisis: each stage has a conflict that must be adaptively or maladaptively dealt with in each developmental stage?
400
General adaptation syndrome is divided into these three arcs of response to stress.
What is alarm, resistance and exhaustion?
400
An adolescent kid whose mom passed away from cancer says at the funeral, "This isn't real, she's just sleeping. She's going to be there when I get home from school tomorrow," is deploying this defense mechanism.
What is denial?
Bonus: The father begins to behave overly positively as if nothing is wrong would be experiencing this defense mechanism.
400
Bipolar Disorder can be characterized by a swing between manic highs and depressive lows. Bipolar 1 and 2 differ in ___________.
What is bipolar 1 has longer durations of episodes with more extremes, and Bipolar 2 has shorter episodes with less extreme symptoms?
Bonus (400 pts): This disorder describes when people experience real physiological symptoms for which there is no explanation.
500
Identify and define all five structuring components of language.
What are:
phonemes--basic unit of sound
morphemes--the smallest unit with meaning
words--meaningful units
phrases--two or three words
sentences--composed of many words(infinite)
500
The theory that this intelligence sets one up for success in new situations. This transfers to all areas.
What is general intelligence?
Bonus: What is extreme intelligence in one area with deficits in other areas called?
500
"That loud noise made my heart pound. And because I am home alone, I am afraid." Identify the theory of emotion.
What is the two-factor theory of emotion?
Bonus(600): Positive emotions can increase awareness and openness to new situations and learning. Resilience and coping abilities are strengthened. This theory is...
500
When the social environment, behavior and personality traits all coalesce into reinforcing an aspects of one's personality.
What is reciprocal determinism?
Bonus: Identify two personality tests and define/describe one of them.
500
This is the difference between schizophrenia and Paranoid Personality Disorder.
What is schizophrenia with hallucinations?
Bonus: Define the base characteristics of each cluster of personality disorders.