Unit 1
When a test measures what it's supposed to, it has
Reliability
Critical for comprehending speech. Damage creates difficulty in understanding language.
Wernicke's Area
Originator of the term "Misinformation Effect"
Elizabeth Loftus
Body system responsible for relaxing the body after stress
Parasympathetic Nervous System
Used for diagnosing mental disorders
The DSM 5
A paid actor who takes part in experiments
Confederate
Observable characteristics of a species based on its interaction with genotype and environment.
Phenotype
Information that is encoded without conscious control
Automatic Processing
Motivation that comes from external factors like grades or money
Extrinsic Motivators
A mental disorder in which a person switches between different identities.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
A distance between the highest and lowest scores
Range
Location of brain where audio is processed
Temporal Lobe
A thinking process that focuses more on creative approaches to problem solving
Divergent Thinking
Too much or too little anxiety lowers performance
Yerkes Dodson Law
A hallucination would be an example of a ____ symptom of Schizophrenia
Positive
An observational study that measures data from a population at a specific time
Cross Sectional Study
Major gland of the endocrine, produces most hormones
Pituitary Gland
Main person associated with concepts of language in psych
Noam Chomsky
Defense mechanism where people behave the opposite of their true feelings
Reaction Formation
An intense type of exposure therapy where the patient faces their fear at a high level of intensity and discomfort
Flooding
a measure of the amount of variation of a random variable expected about its mean.
Standard Deviation
Sleep disorder that causes breathing to stop during sleeping
Sleep Apnea
Type of intelligence that involves quick thinking and problem solving- declines with age
Fluid Intelligence
Most primitive and instinctive part of personality according to Freud
The id
Mostly used for treating depression, these drugs block the reabsorption of Serotonin.
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI's)