Pgs 5-7 Flashcards
Deindividuation
Loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal (#7)
Deinstitutionalization
Staying at a less isolated community than an institution (#7)
Dependent variable
The outcome factor (#7)
Descriptive statistics
Basic features of data in a study (#7)
Developmental psych
Branch of psych that studies physical, cognitive, and social changes through life (#7)
DSM (purpose & limits)
Book that classifies psychological disorders (#7)
Diathesis Stress Model
Disorder as the result of stress from life experiences (#7)
Difference threshold
Minimum difference between 2 stimuli required for detection 50% of time (#7)
Discrimination in learning
People learn to respond differently to different stimuli (#7)
Discrimination in race
A person is treated less favorably because of their color/race (#7)
Disorder
A disruption of normal physical or mental functions (#7)
Dissociative Disorders
Conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories (#7)
Dissociative Identity
Person shows 2 or more distinct and alternating personalities (#7)
Dissociative Amnesia
Mental illness that disrupts/breakdowns memory, consciousness, and identity (#7)
Dissociative Fugue
Person without planning/warning, travels far from home/work and leaves behind past life (#7)
Divergent thinking
Thought process used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions (#7)
Dominant genes
Result of dominant alleles in chromosomes (#7)
Door in the face
Persuasive technique that you agree with the small request when large request was initially posed (#7)
Double-blind procedure
Experiment where participants and researchers are blind about if participants have received a placebo (#7)
Down syndrome
Intellectual disability associated with physical disorders cause by an extra chromosome (#7)
Convergent thinking
A mode of thinking used for problems that have just one correct solution (#6)
Cooper’s visual processing
Altered visions of cats, caused alters in how the cells fired (#6)
Correlational Coefficient
A statistical index of the relationship between two things (#6)
Correlation study
Trying to find a relationship between variables (#6)
Cortisol
Cortisol is a steroidal hormone responsible anti-stress responses (#6)
Cross cultural studies
Cross-cultural psychology is the scientific study of human behavior conditions (#6)
Cross sectional studies
A study in which people of different ages are compared with another (#6)
Crystallized intelligence
Our accumulated knowledge and verbal skills tends to increase with age (#6)
Culture Fair test
An attempt to produce a measure of cognitive (#6)
Curare
Curare is a drug that causes paralysis (#6)
Deductive reasoning
Basic form of valid reason (#6)
Deep sentence structure
The study of syntax, the deep structure of a linguistic expression (#6)
Defense mechanisms
Unconscious mental processes used to protect oneself from shame, anxiety, loss of self-esteem (#6)
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Repression
Defense mechanism that banishes anxiety from consciousness (#6)
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Regression
Retreating to an infantile psychosexual stage (#6)
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Sublimation
Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object in an acceptable way (#6)
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Displacement
Shifting aggressive impulses toward a less threatening person (#6)
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Projection
Disguising one’s own impulses by attributing them to others (#6)
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Reaction Formation
Switching unacceptable impulses into opposites (#6)
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Rationalization
Self-justifying explanations in place of the real one (#6)
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Denial
Refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities (#6)
Conduct disorder
Mental disorder diagnosed in childhood or adolescence that presents itself through a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate norms are violated (#5)
Conductive deafness
Hearing loss caused by damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves to the cochlea (#5)
Conformation Bias
A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and ignore or distort contradictory evidence (#5)
Conflicts
Incompatibility of actions, goals, or ideas (#5)
Confounding/extraneous variables
Another factor other than independent that can cause an effect in an experiment (#5)
Conformity
Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard (#5)
Conformity study
Asch’s conformity study; refers to a series of studies directed by Solomon Asch studying if and how individuals yielded to or defied a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and opinions (#5)
Contact comfort
The innate pleasure derived from close physical contact (#5)
Control group
In an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment (#5)
Clever Hans experiment
(Horse) claimed to have demonstrated that the horse was not performing the mental tasks but was watching the reactions of the trainer. He said that he has discovered this artifact in the research methodology (#5)
Client-centered therapy
A humanistic therapy. In which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate client’s growth (#5)
Cocktail party effect
Ability to attend to only one voice among many (#5)
Cognitive Dissonance
The theory that we reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent (#5)
Collectivism
Giving priority to goals of one’s group and defining one’s identity accordingly (#5)
Color blindness
A vision defect wherein the eye perceived some colors differently than others (#5)
Companionate love
The deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined (#5)
Complementary colors
The primary colors are red, yellow and blue while the other (secondary) colors orange, green and violet are each made by combining two of the primary colors. When these 6 colors are diagramed in a wheel, the colors that are opposite to one another are complementary colors (#5)
Compliance
A response specifically, a submission made in reaction to a request (#5)
