FINAL EXAM

Question 1

Autism

Answer 1

Developmental disorder, it develops in the first 3 years in your life. It affects the brains normal developmental of social and communication skills.

Question 2

Attribution theory

Answer 2

We blame outside environmental factors for why we act like we do.

Question 3

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 3

We automatically blame someone’s personality for their negative actions instead of other environmental factors.

Question 4

Mere Exposure Effect

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People tend to prefer or like something because they are around it or familiar with it.

Question 5

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Answer 5

a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the important role of thinking in how we feel and we do.

Question 6

Positive reinforcement

Answer 6

When somebody does something good reward them

Question 7

Negative Reinforcement

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Punish someone for doing something wrong

Question 8

Nature

Answer 8

When your born with it

Question 9

Nature

Answer 9

When you come what you come based on how your raised

Question 10

Major Depression

Answer 10

A disorder characterized by severe negative needs or a lack of interest or normally pleasure activities

Question 11

Schizophrenia

Answer 11

Split between thought and emotion, it involves altercations in thoughts, and in perceptions or in conscious

Question 12

Psychoanalysis

Answer 12

A method developed by Sigmund Freud that attempts to bring contents on the unconscious conscious awareness so that conflicts can be revealed

Question 13

Social Psychology

Answer 13

The study of how people are influenced by their interactions

Question 14

Conformity

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The altering of ones behaviors and opinions to match those of other people expectations

Question 15

Social Facilation

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When mere presence of others enhance performance

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Social Loafing

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The tendency for people to work less hard in a group than working alone

Question 17

Independent Variable

Answer 17

The variable that is manipulated by the experimenter to examine its impact on dependent variable

Question 18

Dependent Variable

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The variable that is affected by the manipulation of independent variable

Question 19

Cones

Answer 19

Retinal Cells that respond to higher levels of illumination and result of color perception

Question 20

Rods

Answer 20

Retinal Cells that have lower levels of illumination and result of black and white perception

Question 21

Personality

Answer 21

The characteristics thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors that are relatively stable in a individual over time

Question 22

Personality Types

Answer 22

discrete categories of people based on personality characteristics

Question 23

defense mechanism

Answer 23

unconscious mental strategies that the mind uses to protect itself from distress

Question 24

cognitive dissonance

Answer 24

an uncomfortable mental state due to the contradiction between two attitudes or between attitude and behavior

Question 25

Freudian theory

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3 levels of conscious, precocious, unconscious

Question 26

Super Ego

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the internalization of societal and parental standards of conduct

Question 27

Ego

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the component of personality that tries to satisfy the wishes of the ID while being responsive to the dictates of the superego

Question 28

Stress

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A pattern of behavioral, psychological, and psychological responses

Question 29

Motivation

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Factors that energize, direct, or sub stain behavior

Question 30

Extrinsic Motivation

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Motivation to preform because you get rewards like trophies.

Question 31

Intrinsic Motivation

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you do it because you love it

Question 32

Self fulfilling prophecies

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Staying positive and positive things are going to happen

Question 33

Compliance

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the tendency to agree to do things requested by others

Question 34

Foot in the door

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If people agree to do small request then they would eventually ask you to do big ones

Question 35

Door in the face

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people are more likely to do small request than a big one

Question 36

Milgram Study

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obey authority, demonstrated that average people obeyed hideous orders

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Perception

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The processing, organization and interpretation of sensory signals; it results in an internal representation of the stimulus

Question 38

Sensation

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The sense, organs detection of external stimuli, their response to the stimuli and the transmission of these responses to the brain

Question 39

learning

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a relatively enduring change in behavior, resulting from experience

Question 40

Teratogens

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environmental agents that harm embryo or fetus

Question 41

assimilation

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the process by which we place new information into a existing schema

Question 42

accommodation

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we create new schema drastically alter existing schema to include new information that otherwise wouldn't fit into schema

Question 43

Bystander Effect

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The failure to offer help by those who observe someone in need

Question 44

reliability

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The extent in which a measure is stable and consistent over time in similar conditions

Question 45

Validity

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refers to how well a test measures what is purported to measure

Question 46

Intelligence

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knowing alot

Question 47

Classical Conditioning

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a type of learn response, a neutral object comes

Question 48

Operant Conditioning

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which consequences take action determine the likelihood that it will be preformed in future

Question 49

Encoding

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The processing of information so that it can be stored

Question 50

Storage

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The retention of encoded representations over time

Question 51

Retrieval

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the act of recalling or remembering stored information when it is needed

Question 52

Groupthink

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When your in a group and they tend to make a bad decision because everyone thinks the same

Question 53

Piaget

Answer 53

he was a swiss developmental psychologist. He came up with theory of cognitive development

Question 54

Central Nervous System

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The brain and spinal cord

Question 55

Gesalt psychology

Answer 55

A theory based on idea that the whole personal experience is different.