Psych Flashcards
What is retrograde memory?
Memories from the past
What is anterograde memory?
Future (new) memories
What is semantic memory?
Factual memories / based on facts
What is short-term memory?
Memories within hours-days of being learned / encoded
What is interactionist theory of language?
Suggests that language is acquired through BOTH biological and social developments
What is comorbidity?
Simultaneous presentation of two or more sociological disorders.
What is a null hypothesis?
States that there is no significant difference between two variables
What is the Corpus Callosum?
axons in the brain that connect the left and right sides of the brain.
What is the Wernicke area?
located on the left side of the brain it is responsible for speech comprehension.
What is instinctive drift?
Trained animals reverting from their trained behavior for something more instinctual.
What is a locus of control?
What an individual believes to be control-long the outcome of an event
What is religiostity?
The extent to which a religious doctrine is internalized and expressed in that individual’s own life.
What is a latent function?
An unintentional result of a social structure.
What is medicalization?
the process by which non-medical problems become defined and treated as medical problems often requiring medical treatment.
How are velocity, frequency, and wavelength related?
v = wavelength x frequency
What is a converging lens?
What is a diverging lens?
What is the lens equation for a converging lens?
What is the lens equation for a diverging lens?
What is the buoyancy equation?
What is the ACTIVITY approach to aging?
What is the CONTINUITY approach to aging?
What is the DISENGAGEMENT approach to aging?
What is the life course approach to aging?
