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Worsham Psyc Q2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| psychology | study of human behavior, how we behave and why, resulted from other sciences |
| functionalism | how the mind adapts |
| behavorism | trained to behave in a certain manner by receiving rewards |
| humanistic | have the ability to form out your own life |
| who developed the fully functioning persons ideal | Rogers |
| what is the fully functioning persons model | strive to be their best, live here & now, enjoy life, trust emotions/feelings, acknowlege others' feelings, constructive living, live life more deeply |
| What are the four types of learning styles | visual/nonverbal, visual/verbal, auditory & kinesthetic |
| relatively stable system of determinding tendacies within an indiviuals | personality |
| affect | feelings and their underlined expression or show of emotions |
| absolute threshold of senses | smallest amount of stimulus you can detect 50% of the time |
| refurs to thoughts, memories, beliefs, perceptions, mental processes | cognitive |
| state of tension, rapid heart beat & shortness of breath, preminision or fear of something bad happening (long term) | anxiety |
| alarm | reaction to a sudden danger (short term) |
| attending | giving undivided attention through verbal & nonverbal behavior |
| What are the 4 purposes of sleep | organize the nervous system, consolidate memories, replenish & repair, energery storage is replenished |
| body becomes dependant on a substance | dependance |
| sensory adaptation | repeted stimuli we become unresponsive to after a minute of exposure, sensitivity drops 70% |
| anger | blame directed toward another person |
| shame | blame directed toward oneself |
| somatic | coming from the senses |
| what are the 5 senses | sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell |
| what are the 6 major emotions | happiness, surprise, sadness, anger, fear, disguist |
| emotion/emotions are defined as | outward expression or display of mood or feelings/feelings such as happiness, anger, or grief, created by brain patterns accompanied by bodily changes |
| communication is defined as | a general term for the exchange of information, feelings, thoughts, and acts between 2 or more people, including both verbal & non-verbal aspects of this interchange |
| fear is defined as | strong emotion marked by such reactions as alarm, dread and disquiet |
| panic is defined as | a strong emotion characterized by sudden and extreme fear |