Unit 1
What stage of sleep is the deepest?
Stage 5, REM
What five tastes can your sense of taste detect?
Sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami
What are the two types of conditioning?
Classical conditioning and operant conditioning
What are the Big 5 Personality Traits?
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.
What two states does someone suffering from bipolar disorder go through?
Manic and depressive
What are the four lobes of the brain?
Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, Temporal
Which lobe of the brain is closely connected to the region for smell?
Temporal lobe
What are the three forces battling for control of the mind according to Freud?
Id, Superego, Ego
What does drive-reduction theory propose?
People are motivated to reduce internal states of tension caused by biological needs to maintain homeostasis
Name one type of core therapy.
Psychoanalysis
Humanistic
Behavior therapy
Cognitive therapy
What is kinesthesis?
Your sense of body position and movement
What is the difference between absolute and difference threshold?
Absolute threshold is the minimum intensity needed to detect a stimulus while difference threshold is the minimum change needed to detect a difference between two stimuli
What is the difference between fluid and crystalline intelligence?
Fluid intelligence is based on speed, while crystalline intelligence is based on experience.
What does the Yerkes Dodson Law propose?
Performance improves with increased physiological or mental arousal.
Give an example of a mood disorder.
Clinical Depression
Bipolar Disorder
What lobe is the hippocampus in, and what is its function?
Temporal lobe, consolidates memory
What does the Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory propose?
The retina can only recognize three colors: blue, green, and red
What are the 3 main types of parenting styles? Describe them.
Authoritative - balanced control and response
Authoritarian - high control low response
Permissive - low control high response
Who are two primary figures of social psychology?
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers
What are the five ways of identifying if someone has a psychological disorder?
Deviance, Context, Persistence, Harmful, Dysfunctional
What are the four different types of sleep brain waves? What is the pattern between frequency and amplitude as you transition through them?
Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta
The closer you get to sleep, the frequency decreases and the amplitude increases.
What is the difference between top-down processing and bottom-up processing?
Top-down processing is when you use prior knowledge from your brain to interpret sensory information, while bottom-up processing is when you build understanding with sensory receptors to interpret sensory information
Name one of Piaget’s 4 Stages of Cognitive Development and their age range
Sensorimotor: 0-2 years old
Preoperational: 2-7 years old
Concrete operational: 7-11 years old
Formal operational: 12-adulthood
What is fundamental attribution error? Give an example.
When the cause of something is attributed incorrectly.
A student says that they failed the test because the teacher is bad when in reality they sleep during class.
Name the five types of schizophrenia.
Disorganized
Catatonic
Undifferentiated
Residual
Paranoid