Memory
This memory store has an unlimited capacity and duration, holding everything from how to tie your shoes to what you ate for breakfast.
What is: Long Term Memory
Discovered by Ivan Pavlov, this type of learning occurs through the repeated association of two different stimuli until the neutral stimulus triggers a conditioned response.
What is: Classical conditioning
Selye used this three-stage model to describe the body's non-specific physiological response to stress, starting with alarm reaction and ending with exhaustion.
What is: General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
This sleep stage is characterised by high brain wave activity similar to wakefulness and is where the majority of vivid dreaming occurs.
What is: Rapid eye movement (REM) Sleep
Hunger driving you to eat, fear of failure making you study, pride pushing you to perform, and peer pressure conforming your behavior represent these four foundational sources of motivation
What is: physiological, cognitions, emotions, and social?
This measure of retention involves recreating information from scratch with the fewest retrieval cues
What is: Recall
In operant conditioning, adding a pleasant stimulus to increase the likelihood of a behaviour repeating is known as this.
What is: Positive Reinforcement
Coping strategies can be divided into two main types based on Lazarus and Folkman: managing the emotional distress, or targeting the root cause. This strategy tackles the root cause directly.
What is: problem-focused coping
NREM3 sleep are characterised by these type of waves and have a ______ amplitude and _______ frequency
In Maslow’s 1954 hierarchy, physiological, safety, love and belongingness, and esteem needs are grouped under this category
What is: Deficiency needs
Typing in last year’s locker combination or accidentally writing your old phone number on a current form is a classic daily example of this type of forgetting.
What is: Proactive Interference
In classical conditioning, this term describes the reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response after a time delay has passed.
What is: Spontaneous Recovery
Lazarus and Folkman's model highlights this initial cognitive evaluation where an individual assesses whether a situation is irrelevant, benign-positive, or stressful.
What is: primary appraisal
These are the main areas that He et al's (2020) study looked at regarding mobile phone use.
What is: sleep, arousal, mood and working memory.
Ryff (1989) distinguished psychological wellbeing from mere happiness by identifying six factors: autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations with others, self-acceptance, and this sense of direction.
What is: Purpose in Life
From his 1953 experimental surgery until his death, Henry Molaison’s unprecedented participation in cognitive research spanned this many years.
What is: 55 years
Skinner utilized this schedule of reinforcement—where a response is reinforced after an unpredictable, changing number of correct responses—producing high, steady response rates resistant to extinction.
What is: A variable-ratio schedule
During Selye's GAS, the body attempts to adapt to a persistent stressor during this stage, where cortisol remains elevated while the parasympathetic system tries to maintain physiological stability.
What is: the resistance stage
These type of brain waves are fast, randomly occurring waves slightly larger than alpha waves. They are also common in this stage of sleep.
What is: Sawtooth waves, REM Sleep
Diener’s model of subjective wellbeing evaluates happiness through cognitive evaluation (life satisfaction) and this emotional component balancing pleasant and unpleasant feelings.
What is: Affective balance
State the aim of Craik & Tulving's 1975 study
What is: To investigate how depth/level of processing affects memory recall/recognition.
Linked to repetitive concussive and sub-concussive head impacts, this disease is characterised by the abnormal accumulation of a type of protein, driving progressive memory decline alongside severe emotional lability, aggression, and apathy.
Name the disease and the protein
What is: Tau Protein & Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
The Social Readjustment Rating Scale has 2 significant life events (ranked fourth and fifth) a score of 63. Name one of them.
What is: Jail term (4), death of a close family member (5)
Spell the full name of EEG
What is: Electroencephalography
Studying psychology only because you will feel profoundly guilty and anxious about letting your parents down if you don't exemplifies this specific extrinsic regulatory style.
What is: introjected regulation