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Intro to Psych Final Flashcards

1
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What is Psychology?

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The scientific study of behavioral and mental processes

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4 Goals of Psychology & Definitions

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Description- Nature of Behavior
Understanding- Cause
Prediction- Forecast
Control- ability to alter

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Who is the father of Psychology?

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Wilhelm Wundt, 1st psych lab in Leipzig, Germany

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What is Empirical Evidence?

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Any type of evidence gathered through direct observation

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4 Stages of Piaget

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Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operations

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Sensorimotor

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object permanence

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Preoperational

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lack of image transformation

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Concrete Operational

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mastery of conservation

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Formal Operational

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Intellectual Development

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10
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What do adolescents struggle with the most?

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Self-identification

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Cognitive Psychologist

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Focuses on how you process information in the brain

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Developmental Psychologist

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focuses on progress in life from conception to death, behavioral

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What is REM sleep?

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Rapid Eye Movement, where dreaming occurs, return to stage 1 of sleep

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What is Freud’s theory of dreaming?

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2 reason; internal conflict or wishful fulfillments

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What is learning?

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A change in behavior that can be attributed to experience

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Classical Conditioning

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A form of learning in which reflex responses are associated with a new stimuli

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Operant Conditions

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Learning based on the consequences of responding

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What are the three stages of memory?

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Sensory, Short term, Long term

19
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What is the hierarchy of needs?

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Physiological needs, safety/security, love/belonging, self esteem/esteem, self actualization

20
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What is gender roles?

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The forward pattern of behavior expected of each sex

21
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What is gender identity?

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One’s private sense of femaleness or maleness

22
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What is gender?

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All psychological and social traits associated with being female or male

23
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What is sex?

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Being male or female and intercourse/ reproduction

24
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What is Freud’s theory of personality?

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ID- Pleasure Impulses
Ego- relates desires of ID to reality
Superego- judge of ego (guilt and pride)

25
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What is health Psychology?

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Study of the ways in which behavioral principles can be used to prevent illness and promote health

26
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What is psychopathology?

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The scientific study of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

27
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What are psycho-somatic disorder?

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Psychological factors that contribute to actual bodily damage

28
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What is somatization disorders?

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People express their anxieties through various bodily complaints with no organic cause for their distress

29
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What is the book psychologists use to clarify a disorder?

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Diagnostic and Satistical manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-iv/5)

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What is social psychology?

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The scientific study of how individuals behave, think, and feel in social situations

31
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Prejudice

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Negative emotional attitude held towards members of of a group of people

32
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Discrimination

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treating member of various social groups unequally

33
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What is social stereotypes?

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Oversimplified images of the traits of individuals who belong to a particular social group

34
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Why is it important to study psychology?

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To aid with interaction with others

35
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What is critical thinking?

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A type of reflection involving the support of beliefs through scientific exploration ad observation

36
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What is motivation?

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Internal processes that initiate, sustain, direct, and terminate activities

37
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What is a neuron?

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An individual nerve cell

38
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Know the differences between the left and right brain

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Left- analysis

right- emotion

39
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Know the IQ formula

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Mental age
———————– X 100 = IQ
Chronological Age

40
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What is sensation and perception?

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sensation- the physical stimulation of sensory organs

perception- the organization of sensations into meaningful patterns

41
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What is consciousness?

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Awareness

42
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What is the ultimate erogenous zone?

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the most pleasurable area of the body

43
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Which drugs impact us sexually?

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All of them

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