Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Psychology Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychology | Scientific Study of behavior and mental processes |
| Clinical Psyhology | Most common psychologist, helps people with disorders like depression or schizophrenia |
| Counseling psychologist | uses interviews or tests to identify problems |
| School psychologist | helps students who have problems that interfere with learning |
| educational psychologists | Like a school psychologist but focuses on course planning |
| Developmental psychologist | studies human growth |
| personality psychologist | identifies characteristics or traits |
| Social psychologists | concerned with social behavior |
| Wilhelm wundt | founded the school of structuralism which is the study of basic elements of consciousness |
| Behaviorism | John B Watson, study of observable behavior |
| BF Skinner | Founded reinforcement, if rewarded for an action they're likely to perform that action again |
| Biological Perspective | Emphasizes biology's influence on behavior |
| Evolutionary perspective | focuses on evolution of behavior and mental processes |
| 5 steps of scientific research | Question, Hypothesis, Test, Analyze results, Draw Conclusion |
| Longitudinal Method | Study one person for a long time |
| Cross Sectional Method | Study people of different age groups at the same time |
| Naturalistic Method | Observing in natural surroundings |
| Laboratory method | observing in controlled environment |
| Placebo | inert substance used to test effectiveness of another substance |
| Informed Consent | Agree to participate after a general overview of the experiment |
| Deception | Telling patient one thing then doing another |
| Ethics | Standards for proper/ responsible behavior |
| Sensation | Stimulation of sensory receptors and transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system |
| Perception | Interpretation of sensory information |
| Vision | Electromagnetic energy, rods/ conses i retina |
| Hearing | Soundwaves, hair cells in inner ear |
| Smell | Chemical Substances, receptor cells in nose |
| Absolute threshold | Weakest amount of stimulus that can be felt |
| Signal Detection theory | method off distinguishing sensory stimuli that takes into account not only their strengths but also setting, physical state, mood and attitudes |
| Unconscious Level | Area where information is stored but is unavailable, it is hidden |
| Conscious level | awareness of things inside and outside ourselves |
| Preconscious level | info not immediately in awareness but can be recalled if necessary |
| circadian rythms | biological clock |
| Stages of Sleep | first and second stage is light sleep. third and forth is a heavy, deep sleep |
| REM Sleep | Rapid eye Movement, stage where dreams are most vivid |
| Sleep Apnea | Breathing interruptions during sleep |
| narcolepsy | Randomly falling asleep |
| Addiction | chemical dependency on a drug |
| Depressants | drugs that slow the nervous system |
| Stumulants | increase the activity of the nervous system |
| Hallucinogens | Drugs that produce hallucinations |
| Stimulus | Something that produces a reaction |
| Taste Aversions | learned avoidance of a particular food |
| Spontaneous Recovery | Displaying responses that were previously extinguished |
| Generalization | Responding the same way to similar stimuli |
| Flooding | Being exposed to harmless stimuli until fear responses are extinguished |
| Primary Reinforcer | Food, water and adequate warmth |
| Secondary Reinforcer | Must be learned, money, attenton, social approval |
| Encoding | Translation o information into a form in which it can be stored |
| Retrieval | Location of stored info and bringing it to conscious thought |
| Semantic Memory | General Knowledge |
| Sensory Memory | initial recording of info, lasts maybe a second |
| Short term memory | Information that stays in memory for a few seconds after sensory information has vanished |
| Long term Memory | Info recorded and lingers for a long time |
| Reflex | Involuntary reaction and response |
| Infancy | period from birth to two years old |
| Stranger anxiety | infant's fear of strangers |
| separation anxiety | infant's cry when their mothers are not present |
| Egocentrism | inability of a child to understand another point of view |
| Authoritative | combination of warmth and strictness with parents |
| authoritarian | parent's belief in obedience for its own sake |
| Primary sex characteristics | Characteristics that are directly involved in reproduction |
| cliques | peer groups of 5 to 10 people who spend a great deal of time together |
| identity crisis | a turning point in development when a person makes important decisions about their values and sets goals for themselves |
| Young adulthood | spans tha ge of 20 to 40. The physical peak of a person's life |
| Midlife crisis | A reassessment that occurs at about the midpoint of a person's life in which they try to feel younger and feel like they've lost their purpose in life |
| Empty Nest | Depression that occurs in a parent when their kids leave home |
| Generativity | Ability to create, produce, and originate throughout adulthood |
| Cellular Damage Theory of aging | Suggests that cells malfunction as a result of damage, not heredity |
| Programmed theories | Theory that people age as a result of a biological clock that moves forward at a predetermined pace |
Created by:
f3ldman
Popular SAT sets