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Psych 9-12
Chapt 9-12 studyguide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hormone increases body's physiological responses to emergencies? | epinephrine |
| Theory of emotion emphasizing importance of cognitive activity? | 2-factor theory (schatcher-singer) |
| Event > Reaction > Emotion | James-Lange theory of emotion. |
| Moderate Level | Physiological arousal level recommended to complete a task successfully? |
| Part of nervous system that slows heart rate & speeds up digestion? | parasympathetic. |
| Adrenal Glands | Secrete norepinephrine. |
| Level of arousal necessary for task performance? | Moderate. |
| Which situation mobilize the sympathetic nervous system? | Emotionally stressful situations. |
| Spill-over effect | Persons emotions change dramatically. |
| Area of brain is active during pleasure? | Nucleus accumbens. |
| Area of brain for disgust? Joy? | Right prefrontal cortex; Left frontal lobe. |
| Polygraph. | Technique used to detect lies. |
| Area of brain connected to fear? | Amygdala. |
| Expressing emotion helps survivability. | Evolutionary persepctive. |
| Guilty knowledge test. | Using known information to uncover emotional responsiveness. |
| Pay attention to ___ in order to understand someones true feelings? | Facial expressions. |
| Passionate love is communicated by prolonged ____? | Eye-gazing. |
| Feel-good-Do-good phenomenon. | People are happy, they are more willing to help others. |
| Carroll Izard | Love is a combo of interest, excitement and joy. |
| Catharsis hypothesis. | Using a fantasy to release anger. |
| Perspective used to explore emotional expressivness? | Social-cultural level. |
| Type of learning used to study fear? | Observational. |
| Diminishing returns phenomenon. | Insufficient rewards fail to motivate. |
| Subfield that contributes to the prevention & treatment of illness? | Health psychology. |
| Principle that refers to the tendency for our personal happiness to be heavily influenced by other's attainments? | Relative deprivation principle. |
| Factor that helps produce happiness or life satisfaction. | Meaningful religious faith. |
| Adaptation level phenomenon. | Tendency for our judgments of objects and events to be heavily influenced by previous experiences. |
| Problem focused coping. | Attempt to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor. |
| 3 stages of General adaptation syndrome. | Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion. |
| Incentive. | -/+ environmental stimulus that motivates behavior. |
| Inborn/innate action. | Instinct. |
| Helps lower rate of heart disease. | Laughter :D |
| What is food deprivation, and what is hunger an example of? | Need ; drive. |
| Maslow's hierarchy of needs. | Basic needs (water,air,sleep,food) met first. |
| Area of brain controls hunger? | Hypothalmus. |
| Arousal theory. | Likely to explore when mildly stimulated. |
| Anorexia nervosa. | Self-starvation. |
| When personnel psychologist develops a scripted set of ?'s for job applicants. | Structured interviews. |
| Binge-eating disorder. | Excessive eating, followed by remorse (purging). |
| Importance of interviewers preconceptions of the interpretation of interviewees responses. | Interviewer is attracted to interviewee, shines + light on answers. |
| Women relate their emotional distress too__? | Sexual disstress. |
| Achievement test. | Assess what an individual has learned. |
| Halo Errors. | Praising a work, based on how well you like the person. |
| Being able to maintain a sense of calm & keep others comfortable during stressful situations? | Emotional intelligence. |
| Equation for IQ. | (mental age/chronological age) x 100 |
| A person pursues high standards and significant accomplishments. | Acheivement motivation. |
| Prototype | Best example of a category of objects, people, events. |
| Functional fixedness. | Used for one purpose, no other functions. |
| Test measuring what its suppose to measure. | Test validity. |
| Strategy used to solve a problem quickly. | Heuristic. |
| Searching for information to confirm your belief. | Confirmation bias. |
| Belief perseverance. | Despite contrary evidence, still believing in youre right. |
| Representative heuristic. | How good something matches a prototype. |
| How readily something comes to mind. | Availability heuristic. |
| Rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences. | Semantics. |
| Framing effect. | Wording that effects responses. |
| Ah-ha moment, sudden realization. | Insight. |
| Contemporary psychologist criticize the over-estimation of the impact of thinking on language in whose hypothesis? | Whorf's linguistic determinism hypothesis. (Cant think without language) |
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