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PSY Exam #2 Pt. 2 Flashcards

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1
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Change Blindness

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Failure to see small things changing in our environment

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Selective Attention

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Cocktail Party Effect

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Circadian Rhythm

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Our bodies natural 24 hour cycle, biological clock

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How many minutes is a sleep cycle?

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90 min

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Stage 1 of Sleep

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Brief, 10 minutes

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Stage 2 of sleep

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Rapid rhythmic brain activity, 20 minutes

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Stage 3 of sleep

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Hard to wake up, delta waves, 30 minutes

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REM sleep

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30 minutes but get longer as cycles repeat, dreams occur

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Why sleep?

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Protects us from predators at night
Recuperates: repair cell, manage waste, growth
Stores memories
Think creatively
Supports growth

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Sleep Deprivation leads to…

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Depression
Performance Decrease
Weight gain
Illness
Reduces attention

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Insomnia

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Persistent problems falling or staying asleep

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12
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Narcolepsy

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Sudden uncontrollable sleep attacks

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Sleep Apnea

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Stopping breathing while sleeping

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Night Terrors

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Terrible dreams, don’t remember when you wake up

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Sleepwalking

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Brain sends messages to body while dreaming

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Dream

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Hallucination of the sleeping mind

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Freud’s dream theory

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dream to satisfy our own wishes

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Freud —> manifest

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What’s happening in the dream

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Freud –> Latent

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Meaning or reasoning behind the dream

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Activation Synthesis Theory

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Dreams are caused by our brain trying to piece together a collection of information

21
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Hypnosis

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Power of influence in which one person suggests to another that things will occur

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Social Influence theory

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Subjects may simply be imaginative actors playing a role

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Psychoactive Drug

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chemical substance that alters perception and mood

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Tolerance

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Our body adapts so that we need more to get the same result

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Withdrawal

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when stopping a substance users feel undesirable effects

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Dependence

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Our body needs the substance or drugs in order to feel normal

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Depressant

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inhibits activity neurally and calms down the body (Alc, Barbiturates, and Opiates)

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Alcohol

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Depressant that slows processing and reduces self control

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Barbiturates

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Anxiety Meds, Sleeping Pills, or tranquilizers that are depressants which suppress the nervous system

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Opiates

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Morphine or Heroin which are depressants and depress neural activity and are highly addictive

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Stimulants

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Drugs that excite neural activity (Caffeine, cocaine, and meth)

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Caffeine and Nicotine

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Stimulant that Increase Heart/breathing rates and are highly addictive

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Cocaine

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Stimulant that has an immediate euphoria followed by a crash

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Methamphetamine

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Stimulant that elevates energy but leaves user depressed

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Ecstasy

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Stimulant that is a mild hallucinogen with a euphoric high and permanent deflation of mood

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Hallucinogens

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distort perceptions and evoke sensory images (LSD and Marijuana)

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LSD

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Hallucinogen known as acid which leads to panic as well as shapes, tunnels, and near death experiences

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Marijauna

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Hallucinogen and mild depressant that gives you poor judgement and stays in system for two weeks

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Cognition

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Involves all mental activities

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Algorithms

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problem solving strategy that is a step by step procedure that guarantees a solution

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Insight

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Abrupt sudden solution to a problem (Ah Ha moment)

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Schemas

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Mental framework that help organize information. Resistant to change and results in confirmation bias and belief perserverance

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Priming

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Activation of a schema which makes the concepts in your brain clearer ( ex: horror movie)

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Hueristics

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Mental shortcuts to make quicker judgements instead of fully thinking through every detail

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Cognitive Miser

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Saving our mental energy

46
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Representativeness Heuristic

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judging the likeliness of things on how well they match a prototype and ignores basic information

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Availability Hueristic

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Whatever comes to mind easier based on frequency

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Framing

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the perspective on how we approach gains and losses and phrasing information to look the way we want (telling parents about grades)

49
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Anchoring and Adjustment

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Over reliance on pre existing judgements (First impressions)

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