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Social Psychology
Statistical Reasoning
Consciousness
Psychological Disorders
Miscellaneous
100
The self is perceived as more central to events than it actually is.
What is Egocentricity?
100
When you "collapse" a variable by looking at a graph.
What is a Main Effect?
100
A powerful factor ("Time Giver")
What is Zeitgeber?
100
29% of people from 8,000 Americans surveyed in the National Comorbidity survey
What is the percentage that had at least one psychological disorder within the last year?
100
Significant and persistent disruptions in mood or emotions cause impaired cognitive, behavioral, and physical functioning.
What is Mood (Affective) Disorder?
200
The Self associates with the good, but not the bad, outcomes of others.
What is Vicarious Beneffectance?
200
When you can't ignore or "collapse" any variables.
What is an Interaction?
200
-sleep walking, sleep talking, sleep “other” -night terrors
What is Parasomnia sleep disorder?
200
The behavior seriously disrupts social, academic, or vocational life.
What is the criterion for Maladaptiveness?
200
Our subjective feelings of anxiety, depression, or other unpleasant emotions.
What is the criterion for personal distress?
300
You’re facing a unanimous decision by a group of 4 or more people. You must give your response in front of the group. You have not already expressed commitment to a different idea or opinion.
What are Factors that promote Conformity?
300
allows us to make inferences about the data we have (ex: those that studied did better on the exam than those that did not---studying for exam example from last week)
What is Inferential statistics?
300
-Onset Insomnia – Maintenance Insomnia – Termination Insomnia
What are types of Insomnia?
300
Central feature is a constant worry, often about many different topics (e.g., school, relationships, finances, etc.). More common in women than in men. 5 to 6% of the population has experienced GAD.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
300
The mental process of inferring the causes of, or providing an explanation for, people’s behavior.
What is Attribution?
400
Subjects made their response after the four confederates, and all responses were made out loud.More than 1/3 of the time, the subjects gave the same wrong answer as the rest of the group.
What is Conformity: Solomon Asch's experiment?
400
measure of how spread out the data is
What is measures of Dispersion?
400
Noises, meals, social interactions, temperature changes, clocks, etc.
What are types of Zeitgeibers?
400
Characterized by the reexperiencing of an extremely traumatic event accompanied by symptoms of increased arousal and by avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma.
What is Post Traumatic Disorder?
400
An action that you feel compelled to perform repeatedly.
What is Compulsion?
500
An ex: A bystander who is in the presence of other people is _less___ likely to help.
What is Bystander Effect?
500
Mean and Range compared to other measures
What are heavily influenced by outliers in a data?
500
-Waking and Sleeping – Frequency of Eating and Drinking – Body Temperature – Secretion of some Hormones – Volume of Urination – Sensitivity to Certain Drugs
What are Endogenous Circadian Rhythms?
500
The assumption that psychological disorders are consequences of the interaction of biological, inherited predispositions and exposure to stressful life experiences.
What is the Diathesis stress model?
500
Signals the Pineal Gland to produce Melatonin. Melatonin is primarily produced between 8 and 10 P.M. Bright light regulates the functioning of this
What is the Superchiasmatic Nucleus (SCN)?