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Memory

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Process in which we encode and store information

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Mood Disorder

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Disturbance/emotional experience that intrudes on everyday living

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Cognitive Psychology

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Study of higher mental processes, such as perception, thinking, language, etc

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Personality

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Characteristics that compose individuality in a person

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What do traditional intellegience tests assest

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Convergent thinking

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Life Review

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Process of which people evaluate or reconsider their lives

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Behavioral Economists

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Focus on irrationality of judgements

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Sensory Memory

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Initial Stored information of a memory

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Insights

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Sudden awareness of the relationship among problem elements, previously independant

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Intellegience

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Capacity to understand the world, think rationally

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Associative Identity Disorder

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When a character displays two distinct personalities

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Archetypes

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Universal types of personality, experiences, and archetypes

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fight or flight reponses activate what

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Sympathetic Nerveous System

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Tip of the tongue Phenomina

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Inability to recall info otherwise known

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Calming Down

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Parasympathetic Nerveous System

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Projective tests of personality

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Rashaw Test

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3 Broad phases of the problem solving

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Preperation, Production, Judgement

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Nature Vs Nurture

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Whether behavior is based on genes (Heredity) or the enviroment (Nuture)

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Chunking

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Breaking down information into short term memory

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Loss of memory before amnesia injury/accident

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Antigrade Amnesia

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Loss of memory AFTER the injury/accident

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Passion Component of love

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Intense emotional and physical attraction between partners

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Sex

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Physical Closeness and Romance

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Freud’s three Personality structures during development

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id -> ego -> superego

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Order of the stages of parenetal development

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Germinal -> Embreonic -> Fetal

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Hippocampus

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Part of the brain that consolidates memory

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Freud says much of our behavior is controlled by the….

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Unconscious

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Sublimation

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Divert an undesirable impulse into a socially approved behavior

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which big 5 personality traits belongs to extroversion

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Talkative

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Algorithm

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Process that guarantees a solution

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Social Phobia

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Avoiding Social interactions in general

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Homeostasis

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The body maintaining a steady internal state

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Medical Perspective on psychological Disorders

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Prerequisite for being self realized

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having all lower needs in the needs pyramid fulfilled

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Halo Effect

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Phenomena in which a person trait’s is used to inform positive or negative traits

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Sublimation???

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a defense mechanism that redirects unacceptable impulses or emotions into more socially acceptable ones

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Cognitive Dissonance

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When someone holds two contradictory attitudes/thoughts

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Central Traits

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Positive traits that make up a personality. Helps people form an initial overall impression of others

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Developmental Psychology

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Study of the patterns of growth and change throughout life

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Schizophrenia

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Severe distortion or reality.

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Biological & evolutionary perspective on personality

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Inheritted

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Anorexia is an ex of

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Eating Disorders

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Prejudice

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Preconceived judgement on a group not based on reality

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Conformity

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Change in attitude or behavior to follow standards of other people

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Need for Achivement

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Person who feels the need to achive and accomplish

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Semantic Memory

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General Knowledge and facts about the world

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Social Influence

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How social groups influence behavior, intentionally and unintentionally

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Repression

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Thoughts or Consciousness being ignored or burried in the brain

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Resilience

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Ability to withstand overwhelming factors, can cause psychological harm

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Socio Cultural Perspective on disorders

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Assume people’s behavior is shaped by families, groups, or societey

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Socio Psychology

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How people fit in and are effected by others

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Abnormality as a sense of producing personal discomfort

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Abnormality defined

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Altruism

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Behavior meant to help another without regard for self interest

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