Psych Definitions 2 Flashcards
Wernicke’s area
Speech processing
Reticular activating system
Controlling alertness, bring someone out of a coma
Somatosensory cortex
Receiving the sensory signals from the skin
James-Lange theory
Physiological arousal precedes the identification of emotion
Cannon–Bard theory
Emotional expression results from the function of hypothalamic structures, arousal does not have to occur before the emotion.
Functionalism
Is considered a macro level theory that understands social phenomena in terms of their function for society.
Conflict Theory
Focuses on the differences in material resources among groups in society.
Symbolic Interactionism
Subjective negotiation of symbols or meanings, which is indicative of the symbolic interactionist theory.
Social Constructionism
Bridges the macro and the micro levels but places more emphasis on how concepts emerge such as illness, as opposed to understanding social interactions.
Sympathetic nervous system
Is part of the stress response
Parasympathetic nervous system
Is rest-and-digest system and is not likely to be activated by a stress response
Peripheral nervous system
Activated at time of stressful event it’s part of the sympathetic nervous system
Central nervous system
Brain and spinal cord
Reticular activating system
Is involved in controlling alertness and is most likely to be stimulated to bring someone out of coma.
Aversion conditioning
Positive punishment
A token economy
Rewarding individuals with secondary reinforces that can be exchanged for appetitive stimuli is typical of a token economy.
Unconditional stimuli
Are involved in classical conditioning
Weber’s Law
That just noticeable differences is a ratio of the existing stimulus intensity.
Equality of opportunity
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.
Recency effect
Improved memory for the later information that is still in working memory, the words at the end of the list.
Proactive interference
Earlier information interfering with memory for later information
The primacy effect
Improved memory for earlier information is an example of the primacy effect, words at the beginning of the list.
Retroactive interference
Refers to the later information interfering with memory for earlier information
