FL 7 Flashcards
Stages of Learning to Speak
Cooing => Babbling => One-Word => Telegraphic
What are the three most commonly abused psychoactive drug?
Caffeine, alcohol and nicotine.
Define: Mindguards
Members of groups that protects leaders from problematic or contradictory views from a group.
Define: Collective Rationalization
Tendency of group to ignore warnings and failing to double check their assumptions.
Define: Gambler’s Fallacy
An erroneous belief that future probabilities are affected by past events.
Ex. I didn’t win the last two scratch cards so I must win on the next one!
Define: Functional Fixedness
Individuals cannot imagine using an object for any other way or purpose.
Ex. Using a fan as a leaf blower.
Define: Overconfidence
Tendency to overestimate ones own ability to make accurate decisions.
Basal Ganglia
Initiating and controlling voluntary movements.
Define: Social Conflict Theory
Society acts as an area of inequality and conflict, usually causing competition between classes.
Define: Structural Functionalism
Society acts as an complex system that works together to promote stability.
Define: Symbolic Interactionism
Product of day to day interactions.
Define: Social Exchange Theory
Reward - Cost = Outcome
Define: Master Status
Status with Special Importance
Define: Achieved Status
Status that is earned.
Define: Ascribed Status
Status you were born with or born into.
Define: Discrimination
Prejudice in action.
Define: Cultural Relativisim
Trying to understand culture in ones own terms.
Define: Prejudice
Rigid/unfair generalization of an entire category of people.
Note: Attitude NOT action!
Define: Stigma
Discredited in the eyes of others.
- Negative Connotation
Define: Tact
Used to help people cope with embarrassing circumstances.
Define: Primacy Effect
Most initially presented information is most easily recalled.
Define: Just Noticeable Difference
Weber’s Law => Ratio
Define: Recency Effect
Most recent presented information is most easily recalled.
Define: Belief Perseverance
Tendency to maintain belief even in the face of contradicting evidence.
Define: Trial and Error
Guess and check without organization or step of step method.
Define: Heuristic Approach
Rule of Thumb
Define: Algorithmic Approach
Step by step exploration of all potential options in an organized and systemic way.
Define: Rumination
Continuously thinking or replaying in mind aspects of situation that is upsetting.
Ex. Listening to sad songs after a breakup.
Define: Coping
Active attempts to resolve source of stressors or problem.
Ex. Working with ex to make mends on relationship after a breakup.
Define: Reappraisal
Emotion regulation, reinterpreting situations in a less negative manner.
What are the seven universal emotions?
Happy, sad, angry, fear, contempt, surprised, disgust.
_____ acts on the collecting duct to increase water intake through the insertion of ________.
ADH, aquaporins.
ADH acts on the collecting duct to increase water intake through the insertion of aquaporins.
What must be isolated to confirm the shortening of telomeres?
DNA
Telomeres - Nucleotide sequences at the end of DNA that protects chromosomes.
Define: Inversion
Chromosome Rearrangement
Define: Aneuploidy
Abnormal number of chromosomes.
What secrets antibodies?
B cells & Plasma => Adaptive Immune Cells
*Antibodies are specific to antigens.
What produces cytokines/cytotoxins? Which cells do they act on?
T cells produce cytokines/cytotoxins and they act on all cells.
Macrophages and mast cells are what kind of immune cells?
Innate immune cells that act in a non-specific way.
