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psych final review
psychology
| psychology | Study of behavior and mental process |
| Sigmund Freud | emphasized unconscious |
| Pavlovs dogs | conditioning bells food |
| Freud | psychodynamic theory |
| Cognitive perspective | mental processes |
| Ethnocentrism | the belief that ones own culture or ethic groups is superior to all others and related tendency to use ones own culture as a standard by which to judge other cultures |
| Psychiatrist | prescribe medication |
| psychologist | cannot prescribe medication |
| meta analysis | a statistical technique that involves combining and analyzing the result of many research studies on a specific topoic in order to identify overall tends |
| empirical evidence | observation measurement experimental |
| hypothesis | a tentative statement about the relationship between 2 or more variables prediction or question |
| theory | a tentative explanation that tries to integrate and account for the relationship of various finding and observation |
| motivation | the biological emotional cognitive or socila forces that activates and direct behavior |
| theories of motivation | instinct drive incentive arousal |
| bottom-up processing | perceiving things "from scratch" |
| top-down | perceiving things using our prior knowledge |
| figure-ground relationship | camouflage |
| telapathy | mind reading |
| aerial perspective | air |
| binocular disparity | eye difference |
| stroboscopic motion | movies |
| moon illusion | visual illusion involving the misperception that the moon is larger when is horizon than its directly overhead |
| figure ground relationship | various pictures we looked up |
| consciousness | immediate awareness of thoughts sensations memories and the world around you. |
| circadian rhythms | about a day rhythm |
| jet lag | fly in another time zone your circadian rhythms are severly disrupted |
| rem | rapid eye movement |
| most common sleep complaint of adults | insomnia |
| restless legs syndrome | people complain of unpleasant creeping crawling etc sensation inside their lower legs plus a strong urge to move them |
| caffeine | most widely used psychoactive drug in the world |
| primary visual cortex shut down | reason why we accept bizarre chotic details of our dreams |
| somnambulism | sleep walk |
| night terrors | child wakes up pin panic sticken screaming goes back to sleep immediately associated with terrifying feelingbut no real dream story |
| freuds view of dreaming | urges wishes desires and hurts |
| psychoactive drugs | chemical substances that can alter arousal mood thinking sensation and perception |
| mood disorder | disturbances in a persons emotion that cause psychological distres impairs the ability to function or both |
| manic episode | bipolar |
| people with a psychological disorder | are more likely to smoke |
| paranoid personality disorder | pervasive mistrust and suspiciousness of others usually with no basis |
| borderline personality disorder | characterized by instability of interpersonal relationships selfimage and emotion and marked impusivity |
| dissociative identity disorder | involves extensive memory disruton for personal info along with the presence of tow or more personalities |
| dissociative fugue | type of amenesia associated with wandering or traveling and confusion about ones identity |
| possible cause of dissociative identity disorder | childhood physical or sexual abuse |
| schizophrenia | (crazy) split from reality |
| waxy flexibility | rare |
| logotherapy | developed by dr vitor frankl-man must have meaning in his life to survive and be psychologically healthy |
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