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Brock PSY Final
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Physiological | what you do physically |
| Cognitive | what you think (mentally) |
| Psychology | study of thought and behavior |
| Developmental Psychology | how your physical, mental, social, emotional and moral abilities grow |
| Grasping reflex | babies grab hold of objects |
| Rooting reflex | latches on to “food” |
| Maturation | how a child grows (predetermined) |
| Cliff baby | for depth perception. All subjects heart-rates rose |
| Telegraphic speech | babies mock adult language, leave out articles |
| Schema | The plan for experiencing the world (mental view) |
| Assimilation | putting things into schemas |
| Accommodation | changing schema for new stuff |
| Object permanence | knowing it’s there when you can’t see it. |
| Representational thought | picturing something in your mind |
| Conservation | seeing the same thing in different forms |
| Egocentric | self centered, can’t see other’s pov |
| Imprinting | learning from parents (mimicking) |
| Critical Period | (Genie) The time in which something can be learned. |
| Genie | isolated/abused until age 12. Could never learn to speak. Not sure if it was nature/nurture/both |
| Naturalistic observation | not interfering with the subject |
| Case study | intensive study of subject |
| Survey | research using questions |
| Longitudinal study | data collected over many years |
| Cross-sectional study | different ages are compared |
| Correlation | relationship between two things |
| Hypothesis | educated guess |
| Variable | anything that can change |
| Experimental group | get the independent variable |
| Control group | don’t get the independent variable |
| Self fulfilling prophesy | expectations influence the outcome |
| Single blind survey | subjects don’t know if they got treatment or placebo |
| Double blind | researcher and subjects don’t know |
| Placebo effect | believe you have a change whether or not you do |
| DSM-IV | Manual of mental disorders (Book) |
| Anxiety | feel of danger and worry |
| Phobia | fear of something |
| Panic disorder | attacks from anxiety |
| PTSD | Stress from something you remember |
| Somatoform disorder | physical symptoms with no reason |
| Conversion | loss of body function |
| Hypochondriasis | healthy person thinking they’re sick |
| Dissociative disorder | loss of memory/identity |
| Disassociative Amnesia | forget important information |
| Disassociative Fugue | Amnesia for a few days then waking up |
| Disassociative Identity Disorder | multiple personalities (used to be called MPD) |
| Schizophrenia | confusion and altered perception. Seeing something or hearing something that is not there. |
| Bipolar | super happy to super sad (never in the middle) |
| Major Depressive Disorder | depression that interferes with daily life |
| Social Anxiety Disorder | Anxious around people |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) | ritualistic activities. If not completed, anxiety occurs. |
| Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) | Depression during winter |
| Body Dysmorphic Disorder | Irrational perception of one’s own body |
| Antihistamine | A type of chemical present in many cold and allergy medicines, and some nonprescription sleep medicines. When taken at night as sleep aids, antihistamine-containing medicines may result in daytime drowsiness. |
| Barbiturates | Sedating medications that were used as sleep aids years ago but are rarely prescribed for insomnia today, due to their overall safety risks. |
| Benzodiazepines | A class of medications often prescribed for sleep problems. Many benzodiazepines were originally formulated to treat anxiety. |
| Insomnia | Sleep problems characterized by difficulty falling asleep, frequent wakings during the night, or waking up earlier than desired. Insomnia can result in getting up in the morning feeling unrested and experiencing drowsiness during the day. |
| Jet lag | Condition resulting when travel across time zones leaves a person feeling “out of sync” with local time at his or her destination. |
| Melatonin | A naturally occurring hormone associated with sleep. Synthetic forms of melatonin are sold as sleep aids, although clinical data supporting melatonin use are insufficient. |
| Narcolepsy | A sleep disorder marked by sudden, uncontrollable urges to sleep, causing an individual to fall asleep at inappropriate times. Medications and behavioral approaches such as scheduled naps can help control narcolepsy. |
| NREM sleep | Non-rapid eye movement sleep. A stage of sleep in which brain activity and bodily functions slow down. NREM sleep accounts for the largest portion of the sleep cycle. See REM sleep. |
| REM sleep | Rapid eye movement sleep. REM sleep occurs in brief spurts of increased activity in the brain and body. REM is considered the dreaming stage of sleep. It is characterized by the darting of the eyes under the eyelids. |
| Sleep apnea | A condition characterized by temporary breathing interruptions during sleep. The pauses in breathing can occur dozens or even hundreds of times a night. Symptoms include loud snoring and a gasping or snorting sound when the sleeping individual starts to b |
| Sleep cycle | A sequence of sleep stages that usually begins with a period of about 80 minutes of NREM sleep followed by about 10 minutes of REM sleep. This cycle of approximately 90 minutes is repeated four to six times each night. If the sequence is interrupted (for |
| Teeth grinding (bruxism) | Occurring during sleep, teeth grinding can disrupt sleep and lead to daytime fatigue. It can also damage teeth, gums, and jaw bones. To help prevent damage, dentists often recommend using a plastic mouth guard. |
| Dream Initiated Lucid Dream | where you are having a normal dream, induced simply by sleeping, and then come to the realization that you are in a dream, and thus becoming Lucid. |
| Electroencephalographic machine | records & measures brain waves during dreams |
| False awakening | An experience where you may believe that you are awake but you realize that you are in another form of consciousness. Most widely excepted is waking from a dream. You wake up IN your dream and an occurrence in the dream tells you that you are in fact stil |
| Lucid Dreaming/Lucid Dream | a dream where you are aware that you are dreaming. |
| Out of body experience | the subjective perception that one is no longer in their body. A separation usually considered an involuntarily act. |
| Sleep paralysis | consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset (called hypnagogic or predominately form) or upon awakening (called hypnopompic or postdromal form). |
| Traumdeutung | the interpretation of dreams |
| Goodall | monkeys (chimps) - some traits aren’t just human (trust, tools, war) - lived in their environment 30 years - first to study qualitatively |
| Milgram | Teacher, Learner - Shock for wrong answers (Shock was fake) - Teacher is the subject - If teacher will use power to hurt others |
| 4 Goals of Psychology | To describe – actions/problems To explain – why we behave/feel like we do To predict – what might happen To influence – what might happen (behavior) |
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