Psych Definitions 2 Flashcards

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Wernicke’s area

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Speech processing

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Reticular activating system

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Controlling alertness, bring someone out of a coma

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Somatosensory cortex

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Receiving the sensory signals from the skin

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James-Lange theory

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Physiological arousal precedes the identification of emotion

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Cannon–Bard theory

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Emotional expression results from the function of hypothalamic structures, arousal does not have to occur before the emotion.

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Functionalism

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Is considered a macro level theory that understands social phenomena in terms of their function for society.

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Conflict Theory

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Focuses on the differences in material resources among groups in society.

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Symbolic Interactionism

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Subjective negotiation of symbols or meanings, which is indicative of the symbolic interactionist theory.

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Social Constructionism

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Bridges the macro and the micro levels but places more emphasis on how concepts emerge such as illness, as opposed to understanding social interactions.

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Is part of the stress response

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Parasympathetic nervous system

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Is rest-and-digest system and is not likely to be activated by a stress response

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Peripheral nervous system

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Activated at time of stressful event it’s part of the sympathetic nervous system

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Central nervous system

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Brain and spinal cord

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Reticular activating system

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Is involved in controlling alertness and is most likely to be stimulated to bring someone out of coma.

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Aversion conditioning

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Positive punishment

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A token economy

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Rewarding individuals with secondary reinforces that can be exchanged for appetitive stimuli is typical of a token economy.

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Unconditional stimuli

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Are involved in classical conditioning

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Weber’s Law

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That just noticeable differences is a ratio of the existing stimulus intensity.

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Equality of opportunity

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A meritocracy is when societal rewards, status, and positions are awarded to individuals based on their own ability and work. In order for a meritocracy to operate everyone within the society would need the same opportunities to succeed so that rewards are actually based primarily on merit.

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Recency effect

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Improved memory for the later information that is still in working memory, the words at the end of the list.

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Proactive interference

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Earlier information interfering with memory for later information

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The primacy effect

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Improved memory for earlier information is an example of the primacy effect, words at the beginning of the list.

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Retroactive interference

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Refers to the later information interfering with memory for earlier information