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Psychology Quarter 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The study of individuals behavior | Psychology |
| Relatively stable system of determining tendencies in an individual and lasts a long time. | Personality |
| Externally expressing emotions. | Affect |
| Feelings that characterize a state of mind. | Emotion |
| Mental process of knowing, awareness, perception. Thoughts, memories, and beliefs. | Cognitive |
| Behavior is affected by the way we feel. Bad behavior is learned. | Behavioral |
| Giving undivided attention | Attending |
| Using words. | Verbal behavior |
| Using body language as a method of communication. | Nonverbal behavior |
| The point at which we begin to notice sensory information. | Absolute threshold |
| Senses get continuous unchanged signals, so we become less aware of them. | Sensory adaptation |
| Information we receive from our senses. | Somatic |
| Active system that receives information from our senses, organizes, and alters it as well as retrieves it when we need it. | Memory |
| The ability to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimulus has ceased. | Sensory memory |
| Hold long enough to compare and analyze against other memories. 30 seconds or less. | Short term or working memory |
| Store with connections and recall by pulling up facts and recognition from matching. | Long term or permanent memory |
| Process that initiates and directs. | Motivation |
| The desire to be like others. | Conformity |
| Changing ones behavior as the result of being directed to or asked. | Compliance |
| Changing our behavior at the command of authority. | Obedience |
| Tendency to respond positively or negatively toward certain people, objects, ideas, or situations. | Attitude |
| Negative attitude about others based on their race, gender, etc... | Prejudice |
| Acting upon a prejudice. | Discrimination |
| Fearful reaction to immediate danger. | Alarm |
| State of fear, apprehension, worry, and tension. | Anxiety |
| Unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone/something is dangerous. | Fear |
| Well being. Contentment or intense joy created by positive or pleasant things. | Happiness |
| Blame directed toward another person. | Anger |
| Irrational fear of a specific thing, situation and it compels the person to avoid it. | Phobia |
| Idea or thought that continually preoccupies a persons mind. | Obsession |
| Forcing or being forced to do something. Urge to behave a certain way. | Compulsion |
| Feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy. Sadness and despair. | Depression |
| Severe mood swings that change fast and sporadically. | Bipolar disorder |
| Psychotherapy used to change thoughts. Use imagery and self instruction to alter distorted attitudes and perceptions. | Cognitive therapy |
| Psychotherapy used to change behavior. Modify behavior patterns by substituting new responses to given stimuli for undesirable ones. | Behavioral therapy |
| Action of killing oneself intentionally. | Suicide |
| The suicide hotline numbers? | 1-800-Suicide or 1-800-273-Talk |
| Experiencing a loss | Bereavement |
| Internal emotions, physical feelings, behaviors, and thoughts that are normal, healthy, and appropriate. | Grieving |
| External griefwork | Mourning |
| Using drinking, exercise, or more physical means to cope. | Instrumental grieving |
| Using withdrawn, less physical, more emotional means to cope. | Intuitive grieving |
| Grief that cannot be shown due to public factors or other reasons. | Disenfranchised grief |
| The purposes of sleep are? | Repair and replenish, restore immune system, organize nervous system, and consolidate memories. |
| Effects of too much alcohol? | Peripheral vision diminishes, kills brain cells, liver failure. |
| Maslow's hierarchy of needs is based on? | What we need to survive. Bottom to the top. We satisfy needs at the bottom before satisfying higher needs. |
| Things to do if a friend contemplates suicide. | Ideas, plans, means. Suicide hot lines. |
| The four tasks of Worden. | Accept the reality of the loss, work through the pain of the loss, adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing, and emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life. |
| Five stages of grief by Kubler-Ross. | Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. (DABDA) |
| Bowlby and Parkes. | Shock and numbness, yearning and searching, disorganization and despair, and reorganization. |
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