Chapter 1
What is Psychology
What is the scientific study of mental activity and behavior, which are based on brain processes?
What is brain plasticity?
What is a property of the brain that causes it to change as a result of experience or injury?
What is Consciousness?
What is the combination of your subjective experience of the external world and your internal mental activity, both of which result from brain activity. (Moment-by-moment subjective experience)
What is Emerging Adulthood?
What is roughly from ages 18–25. Starts at the end of physical growth and sexual maturity. Ends when individuals identify stable patterns of work and relationships
Who is my least favorite Psychologist? (Everyone knows him)
Who is Sigmund Freud?
What is empiricism?
What is an objective, evidence-based approach?
What is the Endocrine system?
What is a communication system that uses hormones to influence mental activity and behavior
What are Circadian rhythms?
What are the regulation of biological cycles into regular, daily cycles?
What are the 4 types of parenting styles?
What are permissive, neglectful, authoritarian, and authoritative
What was the Little Albert experiment?
11-month-old “Albert” was shown a white rat and when he was shown the rat a loud clanging sound was made simultaneously. Eventually, he automatically feared the white rat because he believed he would hear the sound as well.
What are the 5 domains of Psychology?
What are Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, Social and Personality, and Mental and Physical Health?
What 3 parts of the brain make up the hindbrain?
What are the Medulla, Pons, and Cerebellum?
What is Narcolepsy?
What is a disorder in which a person experiences excessive sleepiness during normal waking hours, sometimes going limp and collapsing?
What is theory of mind?
What is the ability to understand another’s mental state and thus predict and explain the person’s behavior?
What does the M in IMPACT mean?
What are the 4 ethical standards that cannot be broken?
What are Privacy, Confidentiality, Informed consent, and protection from harm?
What nervous system starts to activate when you experience something fearful? (ex: cliffdiving, running from a bear, etc.)
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
What is the activation-synthesis theory?
What is the theory that dreams result from mind’s attempts to make sense of random neural activity?
What are the 3 types of attachment styles seen in the strange situation experiment?
What are secure, avoidant, and ambivalent?
What are the 3 stages of Kohlberg's moral ladder?
What are preconventional, conventional, and postconventional?
What are the three types of descriptive methods?
What are case studies, observational studies, and self-reports?
A neurotransmitter that regulates motor control, attention, memory, learning, and sleeping?
What is Acetylcholine?
What are the 4 main classes of psychoactive drugs?
What are stimulants, depressants, opiods, and hallucinogens?
What is assimilation and accommodation?
What is placing an experience in an existing schema, and creating or dramatically altering a schema?
What are the 5 main tastes?
What are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami?