FINAL EXAM Flashcards
Autism
Developmental disorder, it develops in the first 3 years in your life. It affects the brains normal developmental of social and communication skills.
Attribution theory
We blame outside environmental factors for why we act like we do.
Fundamental Attribution Error
We automatically blame someone’s personality for their negative actions instead of other environmental factors.
Mere Exposure Effect
People tend to prefer or like something because they are around it or familiar with it.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and we do.
Positive reinforcement
When somebody does something good reward them
Negative Reinforcement
Punish someone for doing something wrong
Nature
When your born with it
Nature
When you come what you come based on how your raised
Major Depression
A disorder characterized by severe negative needs or a lack of interest or normally pleasure activities
Schizophrenia
Split between thought and emotion, it involves altercations in thoughts, and in perceptions or in conscious
Psychoanalysis
A method developed by Sigmund Freud that attempts to bring contents on the unconscious conscious awareness so that conflicts can be revealed
Social Psychology
The study of how people are influenced by their interactions
Conformity
The altering of ones behaviors and opinions to match those of other people expectations
Social Facilation
When mere presence of others enhance performance
Social Loafing
The tendency for people to work less hard in a group than working alone
Independent Variable
The variable that is manipulated by the experimenter to examine its impact on dependent variable
Dependent Variable
The variable that is affected by the manipulation of independent variable
Cones
Retinal Cells that respond to higher levels of illumination and result of color perception
Rods
Retinal Cells that have lower levels of illumination and result of black and white perception
Personality
The characteristics thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in a individual over time
Personality Types
discrete categories of people based on personality characteristics
defense mechanism
unconscious mental strategies that the mind uses to protect itself from distress
cognitive dissonance
an uncomfortable mental state due to the contradiction between two attitudes or between attitude and behavior
Freudian theory
3 levels of conscious, precocious, unconscious
Super Ego
the internalization of societal and parental standards of conduct
Ego
the component of personality that tries to satisfy the wishes of the ID while being responsive to the dictates of the superego
Stress
A pattern of behavioral, psychological, and psychological responses
Motivation
Factors that energize, direct, or sub stain behavior
Extrinsic Motivation
Motivation to preform because you get rewards like trophies.
Intrinsic Motivation
you do it because you love it
Self fulfilling prophecies
Staying positive and positive things are going to happen
Compliance
the tendency to agree to do things requested by others
Foot in the door
If people agree to do small request then they would eventually ask you to do big ones
Door in the face
people are more likely to do small request than a big one
Milgram Study
obey authority, demonstrated that average people obeyed hideous orders
Perception
The processing, organization and interpretation of sensory signals; it results in an internal representation of the stimulus
Sensation
The sense, organs detection of external stimuli, their response to the stimuli and the transmission of these responses to the brain
learning
a relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience
Teratogens
environmental agents that harm embryo or fetus
assimilation
the process by which we place new information into a existing schema
accommodation
we create new schema drastically alter existing schema to include new information that otherwise wouldn’t fit into schema
Bystander Effect
The failure to offer help by those who observe someone in need
reliability
The extent in which a measure is stable and consistent over time in similar conditions
Validity
refers to how well a test measures what is purported to measure
Intelligence
knowing alot
Classical Conditioning
a type of learn response, a neutral object comes
Operant Conditioning
which consequences take action determine the likelihood that it will be preformed in future
Encoding
The processing of information so that it can be stored
Storage
The retention of encoded representations over time
Retrieval
the act of recalling or remembering stored information when it is needed
Groupthink
When your in a group and they tend to make a bad decision because everyone thinks the same
Piaget
he was a swiss developmental psychologist. He came up with theory of cognitive development
Central Nervous System
The brain and spinal cord
Gesalt psychology
A theory based on idea that the whole personal experience is different.
