Mental and Physical Health
Factors and reasons that cause the body to go into fight or flight mode.
Stress
Studying why people do the things they do. WHY ARE YOU THE WAY THAT YOU ARE?!
Social Psychology
Write a physical change that occurs during adulthood
Loss of hair, weakening of bones, sensory loss, decrease in motor ability, neural process slows
L.L. Thurstone opposed the General Intelligence Theory stating that intelligence was broken into (how many) Mental Abilities.
7
Basic info to higher level thinking
Bottom Up Processing
This type of stress is bad stress which we want to avoid.
Distress
Good people have good things happens to them while bad people have bad things happen to them. This is an example of ...
Just World Phenomenon
The _____ is a culture's preferred timing for social events, such as marriage, parenthood and retirement.
social clock
Your ability to Read the Room and base your social interactions on those around you is considered ___ intelligence
Emotional
The weakest amount of stimuli that someone can detect 50% of the time
Absolute Threshold
Name the 3 stages of General Adaptation Syndrome or Fight or Flight. Must get all 3
Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
I'm upset over who won the Super Bowl and I end up taking it out on you when you turn in work late. This is ____ attribution.
Dispositional
This phase in an adult's life where the body must readjust to post-fertile time. For women they undergo menopause and men see a decrease in testosterone
Climacteric Phase
This type of intelligence is your accumulated knowledge and verbal skills that increase with age. It's very clear.
Crystallized Intelligence
The process of turning stimuli into neural impulses
Transduction
Personal strength that comes from growth and recovery. It can take time
Resilience
I'll sell you this car for $70,000. No, ok how about $35,000?
This is an example of...
Door in the face
List the 5 stages of Kubler-Ross' stages of dying IN ORDER.
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
What are the THREE intelligences in Sternberg's Triarchic theory?
Analytical, Creative, Practical
Refers to our predisposition to perceive things in a certain way
Perceptual Sets
This is good stress, motivating stress like when you are warming up for a game.
Eustress
Name 3 things that Milgram said would lead people to obey blindly
The authority figure appears legitimate
Proximity of authority figure to us
Proximity of us to the victim
If the victim is depersonalized
If there are no role models for defying authority figure
We are alone
We have a history of obeying
We have obeyed smaller orders earlier
When baby ducks hatch and attach to the first thing they see, they are...
Imprinting
A condition where a person with an otherwise limited mental ability has an exceptionally specific skill, like the ability to draw from memory.
Savant Syndrome
The study of the relationship between the physical characteristics of stimuli, such as their intensity, and our psychological experience of them
Psychophysics