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) |