Unit 1: Biological Basis for Psychology
The part of the autonomic nervous system that prepares the body for stressful or emergency situations
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System
The mental capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information.
What is Memory?
Agents that cause malformation and harm during prenatal development.
What are Teratogens?
The tendency to over emphasize dispositional factors and under estimate situational factors in explaining a behavior.
What is Fundamental Attribution Theory?
The scientific study of human functioning, with the goals of discovering and promoting strength and virtues that help individuals thrive.
What is Positive Psychology?
Part of the nervous system consisting of the Brain and Spinal Cord
What is the Central Nervous System?
A cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used.
What is Functional Fixedness?
A theory that suggests behavior is learned through observation and imitation of others.
What is Social Learning Theory?
The tendency to attribute positive outcomes to ones' self and negative outcomes to external factors.
What is Self-Serving Bias?
Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases--alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
The basic building blocks of the nervous system that transmits information through electrical and chemical signals.
What is a neuron?
A cognitive framework that helps organize and interpret information.
What is Schema?
A theory that describes how children develop logical thinking through stages.
What is Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development?
The degree to which a person believes they can control events effecting them, categorized as internal or external.
Locus of Control.
A culturally specific syndrome characterized by intense emotional distress, often associated with a stressful event.
What is Ataque De Nervios?
A neural impulse that travels down the axon triggered by a change in electrical charge.
What is Action Potential?
A mental shortcut that helps people solve problems and make judgements quickly.
What is Heuristics?
A theory emphasizing the role of social interaction and cultural context in cognitive development.
What is Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development?
A belief or expectation that influences a person's behavior in a way that causes the belief to come true.
What is Self-fulfilling Prophecy?
A group of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience.
What are Personality Disorders?
The time following an action potential during which a neuron is unable to fire again.
What is a refractory period?
The tendency to recall memories that are consistent with one's current mood.
What is Mood Dependent Memory?
The smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish meaning.
What are Phonemes?
Influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval and avoid disapproval.
What is Normative Social Influence?
A response to perceived threats and challenges that can effect behavior and mental processes.
What is Stress?