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Psychology #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is stranger anxiety? When does it begin? When does it end? | Child's fear parents will not return 7&1/2 months- 3 years old |
| What is storm and stress? Give five reasons why it occurs. | Conflicts between adolences and their parents |
| What is a mid-life crisis? What are the differences between what men experience and what women experience. | Conflicts adults have with themselves men= (psychological) believe they lose their role in the family women= (physical) 2nd adolence |
| What is the difference between sensation and perception? | Sensation= what you get from your senses. Perception= how you interpret it. |
| What is absolute threshold? | The minimum stimulus needed to detect a stimuli 50% of the time. |
| What is the "cocktail party" or the "lunch room" phenomenon? | Having a conversation and trying to listen to another conversation about you. |
| Describe the four stages of sleep and which are NREM and which are REM. | 1st: Fantasy or hallucenation stage(NREM) 2nd: Sleep walking & talking (NREM) 3rd: Transitional Stage (NREM) 4th: Deep sleep (REM) |
| Name three common sleep disorders and describe each. | Insomnia: lack of quality of sleep Sleep Apnea: Stop breathing in their sleep Narcolepsy: Fall asleep anywhere |
| If a person loses one of their senses do the other senses become stronger then what they were before the loss? Explain your answer. | No, they don't get stronger they just use them more |
| What are the two reasons why people forget? Explain your answer. | Decay: if you don't use it, you lose it. Displacement: learning something new and replacing it with something old. |
| What is the definition of the rooting reflex? | Babies tendency to open its mouth in search of the nipple when touched on the cheek. |
| Piaget is best known for his interest in the process of what development? | Cognitive |
| What stage of development, according to Piaget, does a child represent things with words and images but cannot reason with logic? | Pre-operational |
| In contemporary Western societies, adolescence typically begins later or earlier and ends later than it did in previous centuries. | begins earlier and ends later than before |
| A women beginning menopause will experience what if she is like many north american women? | Hot flashes |
| What is an example of subliminal stimulation at the movies? | Popcorn and coke-a-cola |
| Why are psychologists skeptical about the existence of ESP? | Hoax |
| If something taste bad, what could someone due to help minimize the bad taste? | Hold their nose |
| What is the definition of consciousness? | Our awareness of ourselves and our environment |
| In what stage of sleep does a person have sensations of falling or floating weightlessly? | 1st |
| Which group spends less time in deep sleep,20 year olds or 60 year olds? | 20 year olds |
| Which group is likely to experience night terrors adults or children? | Children |
| What is the term used to describe someone who has been asked to forget something revealed under hypnosis? | Post hypnotic amnesia |
| What is the definition of tolerance? | The need to take larger doses of a drug in order to experience its effect |
| What is the definition of physical dependence? | unpleasant withdrawl symptoms |
| What drug has the most rapid increase in tolerance? | Heroine |
| Is alcohol considered a stimulant or a depressant? | Depressant |
| If a sea snail learns from a squirt of water with an electric shock, what kind of learning takes place? | classical conditioning |
| If running through a maze gets a reward of food ,what kind of response is this? | unconditional response |
| In which form of learning is behavior said to be influenced by its consequences? | Operant response |
| What is the definition of reinforcer? | An event that increases the frequency of the behavior |
| If a person uses an acrostic to remember something, what form of memory are they using? | Chunking |
| Seven plus or minus two is the storage capacity for what form of memory? | Short term |
| A person who is embarrassed because they cannot remember someone's name is a result of a failure of what part of memory? | Retrival |
| What is the eerie feeling of having been somewhere? | Deja Vu |
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