Psychopathology & Drive States
Define homeostasis.
What is maintaining a stable state across the body?
What is the name of the gorilla we talked about?
What is KoKo?
Define self-regulation.
What is companionate love?
What is a strong affection for another.
Name at least two therapeutic orientations.
What is ____?
What is the evolutionary benefit of disgust?
What is it protects us from harmful substances in our environment?
Define cognitive dissonance?
What is when a person is simultaneously holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsistent?
Give an example of an availability heuristic.
What is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind?
Define natural selection.
What is the differential reproductive success as a consequence of differences in heritable attributes?
Who is Paul Ekman?
What is the researcher that discovered primary emotions by researching remote tribes isolated from the modern world?
Give an example of reciprocity.
What is the bystander effect?
What is the diffusion of responsibility?
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
What is a clinical disorder in which an individual is self-important and often preoccupied with envy, fantasy of success, or rumination about the uniqueness of their own problems?
What is the difference in emotionality between those in individualistic societies (e.g., United States) and collective societies (e.g., Japan)?
What is in the United States, people feel excited and other high arousal states and in Japan, people feel calm and other low arousal states?
Give an example of the foot-in-the-door technique.
What is when you encourage people to do a favor for us after we have granted them a small request?
What is belonging and why is it important?
What is a comparable risk factor for death to other common risk factors, such as physical inactivity or substance abuse?
What are the 5 D's of Abnormality?
1. Duration
2. Danger
3. Dysfunction
4. Deviance
5. Distress
List the six primary emotions.
1. Disgust
2. Sadness
3. Happiness
4. Anger
5. Fear
6. Surprise
Describe the "Marshmallow Test". What did it measure?
What is self-control?
Describe Solomon Asch's Line Study.
What is conformity?