Motivation/Emotion
What's the tendency for people to be more willing to help or aid others when they feel good about themselves or are already in a good mood?
EX: When you ask your parents for something when they are in a good mood rather than while they are angry at you
What is the Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon?
What lobe in the brain is a major sensory processing hub for your brain—perception, spatial awareness, manipulating objects, spelling?
What is the parietal lobe?
Who was the russian physiologist best known for his work on classical conditioning?
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Putting in less effort while working in a group than you would if you were working individually.
What is social loafing?
What is a psychological phenomenon where people overestimate how much others notice them?
What is the spotlight effect?
What system carries signals that put your body's systems on alert/ activates fight or flight?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
What part of the brain connects the left & right brain?
*Hint: People with epilepsy would get the it severed to stop their seizures.
What is corpus callosum?
Who came up with unconditional positive regard?
What is Carl Rodgers?
A humans desire to help others even if the costs outweigh the benefits of helping.
What is altruism?
According to Freud what part of mind provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations and operates on the moral principle.
What is the superego?
What drug affects mood and well being and is known as the "love hormone".
*Hint is inked to warm feelings, trust, empathy, and relationship building and is essential for childbirth and breastfeeding.
What is oxytocin?
What is the chronic, autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) that's caused when the myelin sheath is deteriorated?
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
Who believed there was a general intelligence, or g factor that underlies the various clusters in factor analysis?
Who is Charles Spearman?
A logic-driven argument using data and facts to convince people of an argument’s worthiness.
EX: A ad about a new medication highlighting the health benefits, inexpensive cost, and positive results.
What is central route persuasion?
What are 5 defense mechanisms?
What is regression, repression, denial, displacement, sublimation, reaction formation and projection.
What theory states that there are six basic emotions that are expressed by certain facial expressions that are shared by people in all cultures.
* anger, happiness, surprise, disgust, sadness, and fear (universal emotions)
What is Paul Ekman’s displays of emotion?
What system send information from different areas of your body back to your brain, carries out commands from brain to various parts of your body?
What is peripheral nervous system?
Who came up with the collective unconscious. The idea that each human shares a common set of mental concepts that exist in the collective psyche of the entire human race.
Who is Carl Jung?
A person's agreeing to a small request after not granting a larger request.
EX: A charity asks for a large donation of $1,000, then asks for a smaller donation of $5 after the first request is rejected.
What is the door-in-the-face phenomenon?
What effect explains the tendency of individuals to change their behavior, often improving their performance, simply because they are aware they are being observed or studied?
What is the hawthorne effect?
What part of the brain plays a significant role in signaling when someone is full and needs to stop eating.
* Hint: it acts as a key "satiety center" that helps the body maintain a stable weight and energy level
What is the ventromedial hypothalamus?
What is a major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory?
*Hint: Its oversupply can overstimulate the brain, producing migraines or seizures
Who is known as the "father of experimental psychology" and the founder of the first psychology laboratory in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The act of blaming an out-group when the in-group experiences frustration or is blocked from obtaining a goal.
What is scapegoating?
According to the Big Five theory of personality/Five-Factor Model (FFM), what are the 5 traits?
What is open-mindedness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism(instability)/emotional stability?