Adjustment & Study Skills
Research Methods
Personality
Stress & Coping
100
The science that studies behavior and the physiological and mental processes that underlie it.
What is the psychology?
100
An in-depth analysis of one person.
What is a case study?
100
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.
What are the Big-5 personality traits?
100
A short term stressor.
What is acute stress?
200
The psychological processes through which people manage or cope with the demands and challenges of everyday life.
What is adjustment?
200
The degree of relationship between two variables.
What is a correlation?
200
The term used to describe how our behavior stays the same across different contexts.
What is consistency?
200
Creating a plan to solve a problem which is causing stress.
What is problem-focused coping?
300
A study strategy which involves re-visiting information multiple times over a long period of time.
What is distributed practice (or spacing)?
300
The variable that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
300
The addition of somthing bad with the outcome of reducing the frequency of a behavior.
What is positive punishment?
300
Theory of stress by Hans Selye which includes the Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion stages.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
400
Beware of some of these, which are not based on research and filled with psychobabble.
What are self-help books?
400
The only design that allows us to establish causal relationships.
What is an experiment?
400
Associating uncontrollable physical responses with events (stimuli) in the environment.
What is classical conditioning?
400
The division of the nervous system responsible for the stress response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
500
A study strategy which involves recalling information from your memory.
What is retrieval practice?
500
A correlation in which one variable increases, the other decreases.
What is a negative correlation.
500
Which of the Big 5 traits is negatively correlated with resiliency?
Neuroticism
500
The organ which releases both cortisol and adrenaline.
What is the adrenal gland?
600
People who value money, fame, and image are less happy than people who value community and relationships.
What is the Paradox of Progress?
600
The correlation which describes the relationship depicted above.
What is no correlation (or no relationship)?
600
Imitating a behavior after learning it through observation.
What is modeling?
600
A stress reduction technique which involves flexing and relaxing muscles while in a meditative state.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
700
According to the Learning Pyramid, the best way of ensuring you know/understand information.
What is explaining/teaching others/doing the real thing?
700
The type of research design used when collecting data in a natural setting.
What are observational methods?
700
The two major contributions that Freud made to psychology.
What are talk therapy and the existence of an unconscious?
700
The long-term stress response activated by chronic stressors, such as paying bills and fighting with a friend.
What is the HPA Axis?
800
Graph depicting the chance of remember information increasing with each reminder/review of the material.
What is the forgetting curve?
800
Each person has an equal chance of being selected to a condition.
What is random assignment?
800
What is the highest level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
What is self-actualization?
800
The stress reduction technique in which we focus on the present moment by non-judgmentally letting thoughts pass.
What is mindfulness meditation?