Thinking/Language
Mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
What is cognition?
The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations
What is intelligence?
The test commonly used in attempts to detect lies, which measures some bodily responses that accompany emotion
What is polygraph (lie detector) test?
A need or desire that energizes and directs (or pushes) behavior
What is motivation?
An environmental event that threatens or challenges us (can be a catastrophe, significant life change, or daily hassle)
What is a stressor?
The best example of a particular category
What is a prototype?
A general intelligence factor that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks
What is Spearman's g?
What is Type A personality?
What is emotion?
The stage of general adaptation syndrom
What are alarm, resistance, and exhaustion?
Productive language is to the ability to produce words as receptive language is to the ability to
What is understand words?
The ability to understand other's emotions, regulate your own emotions, and delay immediate pleasures in pursuit of long-term rewards
What is emotional intelligence?
Strategies to deal with the effects of stress (Name at least one)
What are mindfulness meditation, aerobic exercise, tend-and-befriend response, open-heart therapy, optimism, etc.)?
Needs for survival and safety come before self-esteem or transcendence
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Main two forms of coping
What are emotion-focused and problem-focused coping?
Reliance on quick intuitive, judgments to make decisions
What is heuristics?
Tests designed to predict the capacity to learn new skills
What are aptitude test?
Our tendency to judge the likelihood of an event on the basis of how readily we can remember instances of its occurrence
What is the availability heuristic?
Motivation occurs because individuals want to maintain an optimal level of arousal
What is arousal theory?
Appraising an event as a stressor and then assessing your ability to respond to it
What is Lazarus' two-part cognitive appraisal of stress?
Searching for information that supports our preconceptions and ignoring evidence to the contrary
What is confirmation bias?
Type of intelligence where knowledge accumulates over time and increases with age
What is crystalized intelligence?
Theory of emotion that places emphasis on the cognitive interpretation of bodily arousal
What is two-factor theory?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
What is internal locus of control?