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What is the Pomodoro Technique?

Time management technique, where you set a timer for 25 mins, take a 5 min break and repeat until the task is finished. 

100

What's an IRB?

Institutional Review Board

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What's a flashbulb memory?

iconic memories generally about the most significant and emotionally charged moments

100

What is I-O Psychology? 

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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What's the hindsight bias?

belief that the event just experienced was predictable

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What's classical conditioning? 

Ex. Pavlov's dogs. 

a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response which is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

200

What's the ABC model?

Activating Event: something happens

Belief: you have a belief about what happened

Consequence: emotional response to a belief

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Name a model of well-being and it's components.

PERMA 


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What were Stanely Milgram's obedience studies? 

The participant sat in front of a machine that thought was providing shocks to another person and despite wanting to stop they were directed to keep going. 

200

What the difference between a job, career, and calling?

job - pays the bills

career - focused on upward mobility 

calling - plays an integral part in and individuals life

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What was the Stanford Prison experiment? 

Philip Zimbardo put undergrads in a mock prison. Tensions quickly escalated so they needed to end the experiment early. The guards subjected the prisoners to psychological abuse. 

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What's the difference between implicit and explicit memory?

Implicit - retention independent of conscious recollection

Explicit - consciously work to remember 



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What's CBT?

Cognitive behavioral therapy

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What's the DSM?

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 

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What are two different kinds of praise? examples?

traits: praising who someone is

efforts: praising what someone has done

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Name 2 benefits of knowing more than 1 language.

  1. Boost brain power 

  2. Improves memory 

  3. Keeps the mind sharper

  4. Enhances decision-making skills

  5. Improved reading comprehension

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What were the line conformity studies? 

A line of student repeated the wrong answer to a simple question and the participant in the study was being measured to see when they would give into the group. 
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What is the purpose of an IRB?

To protect the welfare of human research participants.

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What are HQCs?

High-Quality Connections 

Short term interactions between two people that leave both parties feeling energized. 

400

Describe the bottleneck theory of attention

We can't pay attention to everything around us. So we can only take in so much the narrowing of the bottleneck represents that we can only process some of the information we take in. 

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What's the difference between assimilation and accommodation? (in the context of memory)

Assimilation - attempt to fit the outside world into existing schemas 

Accommodation - modify schemas to fit new information

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What are some of the benefits of the DSM?

Provides a standard for diagnosis ensuring that one person should get the same diagnosis and in turn treatment no matter what provider they go see. 

500

What the differences between organizational psychology and industrial psychology? 

Organizational is focused more on the impacts an organization has on an individual

Where industrial is focused on helping an individual preform at the highest level

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What's the misinformation effect? Provide example

 Being exposed to leading questions (misinformation) can alter and distort our memories

500

What's the difference between mindfulness and meditation?

Meditation is a way to practice mindfulness.

You can be mindful and do anything but meditation is a formal practice.