Social
Thinking and Memory
Intro to Psychology
Stress and Health
Experiments
100

Changing behavior at the command of authority. 

What is Obedience?

100

Mental activity that goes on in the brain when a person is processing information.

What is Cognition?

100

Is a scientific study of the mind and behaviors

What is Psychology?

100

Physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging. 


What is stress?

100

Where you take a sample of a population and you choose independent variables and dependent variables and put participants into experimental or control groups.

What is an experiment?

200

A Negative Attitude towards someone.

What is Prejudice?

200

Lasts 12 to 30 seconds, usually 3 to 5 items, and susceptible to inference.

What is Short-Term memory?

200

Goal shifting and rule shifting that results in delays and more mistakes (and a decrease in gray matter).

What is multitasking?

200

Caused by a positive event/a healthy stress.

What is Eustress?

200

A study done with a quiz about lines, that was done to observe if people would conform even if they knew the answer was wrong.

Asch's Experiment on Conformity 

300

Peer Pressure Synonym.

What is conformity?

300

A mental framework that helps individuals organize, process, and store information about their environment or a cluster of related concepts.

What is a Schema?

300

Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Humanistic, Cognitive, Sociocultural, Biopsychological, Evolutionary 

What are the seven modern Perspectives?

300

In response to stress, the ________ engages with increased health rate, increased respiratory rate, and reduced digestive functioning. 

What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?

300

A study done where a fake "prison" was created by a psychologist who wanted to see if circumstances changes how a person acts.

What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?

400

Very charismatic leader, peer pressure, a crossroads, the soft shell effects (gentle, love), New reality.

What are a cults characteristics?

400

Self-Monitoring, Self-Evaluating, And Self Regulating.

What are the processes of MetaCognition?

400

The purpose of the conscious experience. (a perspective)

What is Functionalism?

400

Developing cardiovascular symptoms, respiratory symptoms, or skin issues as a result of stress this can lead to

What are psychophysiological disorders?

400
An experiment done to observe how people could do horrible things as long as they were done under the command of authority.

What is Milgram's Shock Study?

500

Changing one behavior as a result of others directing or asking. 

What is compliance?

500

Automatic encoding due to a high emotion or unexpected event.

What is a Flashbulb Memory?

500

Going to a place and collecting data about the people you see instead of bringing them to you.

What is Naturalistic Observation.

500

Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

What is General Adaptation Syndrome?

500

Because memories can be altered, hindsight bias, and memory retrieval issues.

What is the problem with Eyewitness Testimonies?