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Psych Flashcards for Final

1
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What are the four lobes of the brain?

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Frontal, parental, temporal, and the occipital lobes

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Behaviorists study what kind of behavior?

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learned behavior

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What is a chamber that isolates the subject from the external environment called?

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skinner box

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4
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Humanism is a perspective within psychology that emphasizes what?

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innate good

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5
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What is Abraham Maslow best known for?

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hierarchy of needs

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What form of psychology studies the changes in cognitive skills, moral reasoning, and social behavior across the lifespan?

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developmental

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What model includes dimensions of conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extroversion?

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five-factor model

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What does Industrial-Organizational psychology study?

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work place and employee satisfaction

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Forensic psychologists might be consulted to do what in a court case?

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called in as an expert witness and pick jury

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10
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what part of the brain is involved with our experience of emotion and tying emotional meaning to our memories?

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amygdala

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What is a case study?

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an individual or small group with unique characteristics/ limited info

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What is a double-blind study?

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when the researcher and the participant are unaware of the group assignment

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What are the four main components of the scientific theory>

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theory, hypothesis, research, observation, conclusion

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14
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Who developed the psychosocial theory of development?

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Erik Erikson

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15
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What is the difference between instincts and reflexes?

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an instinct is a response to a broader event while a reflex is a natural response

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16
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Simply expecting something to happen can make it happen, what is this called?

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placebo effect

17
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What refers to the failure to notice something that is completely visible due to lack of attention?

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inattentional blindness

18
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What refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result?

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reliability

19
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A space between two neurons is called what?

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synapse

20
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Two lines appear to be different lengths, though, in reality, they are the same. What is this called?

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Muller-Lyer illusion

21
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What is a subliminal message?

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receiving information that you are not conscious you are receiving

22
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Sensation

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how we gather information through our senses

23
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Perception

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the interpretation of information through our senses

24
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What is amplitude?

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the height of a wave

25
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What was Ivan Pavlov known for?

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he is known for his experiment using dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell

26
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What is continuous development?

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when you approach views development as a cumulative process

27
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Who believed there were three stages of moral reasoning including pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional?

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Lawerence Kohlburg

28
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What is nature vs nurture?

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nature is DNA that cannot be changed, and nurture is your environment

29
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Jean Piaget’s, what stage is the world experienced through senses and actions?

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sensorimoter

30
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Who conducted the Stanford prison experiment?

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Phillip Zimbardo

31
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The just world hypothesis is the ideology common in the US that people get the outcome ___________?

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they deserve

32
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Who called the stages of development psychosexual stages?

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Sigmund Freud

33
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What are the three stages of prenatal development?

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  1. germinal
  2. embryonic
  3. fetal
34
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What is authoritative parenting?

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parents create the rules, but are flexible

35
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What is authoritarian parenting?

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child has no input, parents way only

36
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Co-morbidity

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when an individual was 2 or more disorders at once

37
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What are the two most common mental health disorders?

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depression and anxiety

38
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What are the three components of Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love?

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Intimacy- close relationships
Passion- having a physical connection
Commitment- someone who is in it with you for the long haul

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