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psychology q2
final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the study of human behavior as an individual? | psychology |
| what are long term tendencies, beliefs, values, and how we show them? | personality |
| outward expession of emotions | affect |
| what is an inward feeling, state of mind? | emotion |
| thought or thinking | cognitive |
| actions we take | behavioral |
| paying attention, focusing on the person | attending |
| words we use | verbal behavior |
| body language, gestures, movements, way we use our voice | non verbal behavior |
| when we first notice a sense | absolute threshold |
| awaresness of a sense fades away after being exposed to it for awhile | sensory adaptation |
| sensed input | somatic |
| system that recieves, organizes, stores, and recalls information | memory |
| sensed input held just long enough to tell if somethings changing | sensory memory |
| some stored, some permanent, stores while being worked on | short term or working memory |
| memories that are always there | permanent memory |
| initiates, directs and sustains behavior satisfying physical or psychological needs | motivation |
| tendency to act or behave like others | conformity |
| going along with someone's request | compliance |
| change behavior because of an authority figure | obedience |
| tendency to respond negatively or positively to a person, idea, object, or situation | attitude |
| attitude that is negative to a person because of gender, race, religion, or ethnic group | prejudice |
| acting upon a prejudice | discrimination |
| response to sudden danger | alarm |
| long term feeling of unease or worry. stays | anxiety |
| usually around one event. temporary | fear |
| good feeling | happiness |
| blaming another | anger |
| irrational persistent fear | phobia |
| thoughts reoccuring creating anxiety. intrusive | obsession |
| actions we take to relieve the anxiety, repetative | compulsion |
| extreme saddness, despair, with no obvious external cause | depression |
| working less harder in a group | social loafing |
| disorder alternating between depressed and manic moods | bipolar disorder |
| therapy dealing with thoughts | cognitive therapy |
| therapy dealing with behaviors | behavioral therapy |
| taking your own life | suicide |
| the fact that there is a loss, the situation | bereavement |
| how we handle death inside ourselves | grieving |
| external sign of grief | mourning |
| dealing with feelings around the loss | intuitive grieving |
| dealing with behaviors around the loss | instrumental grieving |
| don't feel like we can show our grief | disenfranchised grief |
| resore, replenish, organize thoughts, gives us rest | purposes of sleep |
| depression, slow reaction time, poor judgement, vision changes | effects of alcohol |
| what to do if a friend is contemplating suicide | talk, be there, give suicide hotline number |
| Warden's four tasks of mourning | accept reality of loss, work through pain of grief, adjust to enviroment without the deceased, emotionally relocate the deceased |
| Kubler- Ross five stages of grief | Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance (DABDA) |