P Flashcards
(26 cards)
The exocrine gland are called_____ which secrets chemical substances other than hormone?
Duct-Gland
Personality type describe as noisy, callous and fond of physical activity?
Mesomorph
“Perception of a complex of sensory and imaginal events”
Schafer
A graphical representation of correlational data is called?
Scatterplot
Which psychologist proposed the concept of “zone of proximal development”?
Lev Vygotsky’s
With psychological process is the stroop effect most closely associated with?
Attention
What is the term for the brain’s process of regulating its own response to stress by controlling harmone release?
Allostasis
(Allostasis allow flexible adaptation to changing condition)
Homeostasis
( Maintain fixed set- point)
Which model proposes that memory is organized in a network of interconnected nods?
Network model
What is the concept of “neural pruning” in neuropsychology?
Elimination of unused neural connection
The tendency of people to attribute their own behavior to external causes and others behavior to internal causes is referred as?
Actor-Observer Effect
Actor-Observer Effect happens when we apply different explanations for our own vs. others’ behavior (situational for self, dispositional for others).
Fundamental Attribution Error happens when we overattribute others’ actions to personality traits.
Data represented in a series of rectangles each of which represents the score in one of the class interval of the tableted distribution is called?
Histogram
Barbara Fredrickson is known for her work on?
Broaden-&-Build Theory
Which neuropsychlogical disorder is characterized by severe memory impairment and confusion, often caused by chronic alcohol use?
Korsakoff’s Syndrome results from a deficiency of thiamine (Vitamin B1), which is crucial for brain function.
It is most commonly associated with chronic alcoholism, although it can also result from malnutrition or other conditions affecting thiamine absorption.
symptoms include:
• Severe anterograde amnesia (inability to form new memories)
• Retrograde amnesia (loss of past memories)
• Confabulation (fabricating false memories to fill in gaps)
• Disorientation and confusion
In dissociative identity disorder the identity that is frequently encountered carrying the person’s real name is?
Host Identity
The term “stream of consciousness” referring to the flow of thoughts in the human mind was coined by with psychologist?
William James
The disadvantage of cross sectional studies is that the result can be influenced by?
Cohorts difference
Prosopagnosia result in an inability to?
Recognize faces
Which formula is correct for figuring out degrees of freedom in a chi square test for independence?
df= (r-1) (c-1)
What is the main purpose of using meta analysis in clinical psychology?
To summarize finding from multiple studies
According to transactional model of stress , which term refers to the individual’s assessment of whether they have the resources to cope with a stressors?
Secondary Appraisal
What is the p value in statistical testing?
The probability of obtaining the observed data if the null hypothesis is true
Which neurotransmitter is primarily involved in regulating mood, appetite, sleep?
Serotonin
Minimum age for assessment of children with specific learning disability as per RPWDAct 2016 is?
8 years
Exposure and response prevention procedure is based on behavior therapy principle of?
Habituation & Extinction
