intro to psy
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is psychology?
The retention of memory for some period of time
What is storage?
How the presence of others directly and indirectly effect our thoughts and actions
What is social influence?
Physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses that are appraised as threatening or challenging
What is stress?
a prosocial behavior that is done without any expectation oof reward and may involve risk to oneself
What is altruism?
Where psychologists submit their work for peer reviews and publication
What is a psychology journal?
Tendency of certain kinds of information to enter long-term memory with little or no effortful encoding
What is automatic encoding?
Changing one's behavior as a result of other people directing or asking for the change
What is compliance?
Part of the nervous system that is responsible for automatic, involuntary, and life-sustaining activities, things we do not think about
What is the automatic nervous system?
an individual's aggressiveness
what is hostility?
Going into a person or animal's natural setting and observing them
What is naturalistic observation?
The changes that take place in the structure and functioning of neurons when a memory is formed
What is consolidation?
Treating people differently because of prejudice towards the social group to which they belong
What is discrimination?
Activates the sympathetic nervous system
What is alarm?
instructing participants to reappraise their arousal while experiencing a stressor helped shift the negative effects of stress arousal to more positive effects
what is cognitive reappraisal approach?
The goal of psych that looks to change behavior
What is control?
Memories that concern events that are highly significant and vividly remembered/recalled
When one's behavior and belief do not align
What is cognitive dissonance?
How people think about a stressor determines how stressful that stressor will become
What is cognitive meditational theory?
loss of memory due to the passage of time
What is decay?
We can only know what we see
What is behavioral perspective?
Mental categories representing activities, objects, qualities, or situations that share common characteristics
What are concepts?
What is groupthink?
coping strategies that try to eliminate the source of a stressor or its impact through direct actions
What is problem-focused coping?
learned, relatively enduring feelings about people, objects, situations, or ideas
what is attitude?