Intro Psych Final Review

Harmful agents that effect development

Which psychologist studied memory?

Part of the brain that has to do with explicit memory

Develop theory of mind

The spinal cord allows or blocks pain signals to the brain

Our idea of ourselves as members of a group

Smallest distinctive sound unit

The parenting style that is most effective in building a child's self-esteem

Where does transduction occur in the ear?

Development of stranger anxiety

The 4 F's are controlled by

Dormant sexual feelings

Expectation that help given will be returned

Which body system moves slowly through the blood stream using hormones?

Obey rules to gain social approval

Sharing common goals can help overcome prejudice and discrimination

A therapist with a 2 year grad degree and postgrad supervision

Emotion and arousal happen at the same time

Unjustified attitude toward an outgroup

When a person experiences a fearful event and develops a fear of similar events

Not being able to remember who told you to study for your test

Which part of your brain is most involved with aphasia

This is correlated with happiness

Have client work on changing thoughts and feelings

Disorder with 2 or more personalities

More people around leads to a lowered likelihood of being helped

Development of Conservation

Perseverance in the pursuit of long term goals

Repeated actions that interfere with daily life

An organism reacts in order to maintain homeostasis

The Harlows discovered that children attach for

Encoding information based on the meaning of the word

The body's major source of energy

Part of the brain that has to do with implicit memory

This enables individuals and communities to thrive

The way we detect physical energy from our environment and encode it as neural signals

Loudness of sound

What measure of central tendency is the midpoint of a data?

Binging and purging

A brief electrical charge that travels down an axon.

What is a cause of alzheimers

Located in front of the parietal lobe, the __________ receives incoming messages from the body.

Why doesn't increased wealth cause increased happiness?

The actions or behaviors that are expected of someone in a particular social position are known as

Which perspective describes how we process and encode information?

Infancy's major social achievement

After linking the US and CS, if the CS is repeatedly presented without the US what will happen?

Sticking with your argument even after your friend disproves what you said

The inability to form new memories

Which phase is the highest resistance to stress present?

Wording something in a way to make people lean towards a certain option

Hallucinations are present

New learning disrupts recall of old learning

Anonymity leads to a reliance on group norms/scripts

Underlies all defense mechanisms

Therapy to fix neurotransmitter malfunction

Who became the 1st female president of the American Psychological Association?

After learning the outcome you believe you would have foreseen the answer. What does this describe?

The basis for learning and memory

Growth and changes in behavior due mostly to biology, not experience

Processing information consciously

Sense of each individual body part

When you are able to notice a stimulus among other noise

Baby cries when mom leaves and cries when she comes back

The structure behind the pupil that helps to focus images on the retina

The left hemisphere controls the

Repeated exposure leads to liking

We recall things better when they relate to us

What is the life center of the cell?

The developmental stage where the human has formed organs

Most widely used personality assessment

Neurotransmitter change needed in relation to major depression

What is most likely to influence young adolescents?

Diagnose people based on their symptoms and treat them

The frontal lobe controls

If the US is repeatedly presented with the CS what occurs?

We interpret things in terms of our current understanding

The complete instructions for making an organism

Which psychologist rejected introspection and believed psychology was the study of observable behavior?

What you do can effect your emotion

Changing your mind/actions after accepting someone's opinion

Alcohol is a _________

The main reason people seek mental health services

Satisfy basic drives

Belief in one's ability to complete a task

A framework that organizes and interprets behavior

Development of object permanence

Feel the pressure of your chair on the back of your legs. This sudden awareness refers to

Differences between individuals is due to genes. This refers to

Where transduction occurs in the eye

You are the first person in line. I remember only your name.

Punishment and Reinforcement used in order to acquire gender identity

Arousal theory

A step by step way of solving a problem

Which part of the cell helps speed the neural impulse?

You get paid 25 cents per item you put in a box. What reinforcement schedule does this describe?

High conformity found by Milgram

Positive behavior that is helpful to others describes

Difficulty speaking after damaging this area

What did Ebbinghaus discover about memory?