Psych/Soc Flashcards
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stereotype boost is
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positive stereotypes better performance
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intersectional approach
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multiple identities simultaneously influence
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social capital refers to
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how big network is
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structural functionalism is
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macro level
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feminist theory is abt
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gender inequality
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mirror neutrons are involved in
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grasping peoples intentions
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subculture is
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not against majority but distinct
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retroactive interference
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new learning interfere with past memory
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operationalizing variable is
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taking variable that cant be directly measured and defining it in way it can
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what is difficult to control in experiment
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enviro factors on persons life
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motion parallax
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allows us perceive depth and motion
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what is example of soemthing dichotomous
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sexual orientation, gender
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PET scans look at
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changes in glucose metabolism in brain over time
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stigma is an ____
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attitude
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our interpretation of how others percieve us is known as
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looking glass self
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working memory involves
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central executive (attention and task switching) visual spacial sketchpad, phonological loop, episodic buffer
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primary reinforecemnt is ___ whereas secondary is ___
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innate, learned
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in a fixed interval when is resposne fast
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right before reward time
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CBT uses
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systematic desensitization
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how does stress effect prefrontal cortex
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reduce connections reduce coping
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pariatal lobe fore
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for spatial processing
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ABC components of attitude what do mean
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affective (feelings about), cognitive (beliefs), behavioral (behaviors related)
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reaction formation
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act opposite way feel
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dissociative disorder is ___ and characteristic is
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2 or more identities, cant remember autobiographical
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commitment progress order
diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, achievement
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social cognitive theory
learn by watching others
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for people with low motivation best way to persuade is
peripheral
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role playing chanages
attitude and behaviour
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trait theorists argue
traits unlikely to change personality is consistent
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retroactive interferance is
new info interferes with recalling old
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what types of memory dont decline with old age
semantic and procedural
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cued recall is with
prompt
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critical period is
12 or younger
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piaget is ____ perspective which states that
universalism, cognition then language
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social desirability bias involves
participants providing favourable info
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learning theory involves
operant condition, imitation, practice
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semantic memory
facts
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stage 3/4 is ___ waves
slow delta waves
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priming is what type of memory
implicit
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neuroleptics used for
treat positive can worsen negative symptoms
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Alzheimers affects
verbal fluency and priming
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structural functionalism aim is to
maintain dynamic equilibrium
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people associated with structural functionalism _____ social interactionalism ____
Durkheim, Mead/Clooney
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mere exposure explains
why people do things
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fMRI measures
blood ox in brain
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strain theory is
disconnect btwn socially acceptable goals and how achieve
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emotion components
cognitive (mental) behavioral (outward rxtn) physiological (body)
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what is instinctive drift
conditioned behaviour replaced by innate
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older adults have decline in
episodic (autobio) and fluid memory
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feature detection
specific neurons fire due to specific signals
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Hawthorne effect
people act dif if knows being observed
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social constructionism is
agreed upon meaning/labels
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emotional intelligence
long term goals
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confirmation bias is an ____ bias
individual
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Fundamental attribution error is
stressing dispositional factors over situational
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affective component of attitude
feelings
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defintion of something is _____theory
social constructionism
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normative
shared beliefs, volunteer
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core nations export ____ and peripheral export ____
goods, resources
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incoherent speech is
positive symptom
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just noticible difference is ____ and absolute threshold is __
smallest dif in stimulus, smallest value detect
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signal detection theory
decisions made under certain conditions (eg. hit miss)
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approach avoidant means
negative and positive for 1 option (if 2 double)
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depression (explained by drive reduction)
lack arousal
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obedience is
directly follow authority/orders
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pupil constriction is symptom from what drug
opioids
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endorphins secreted from
anterior pituitary
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posterior pituitary secretes
vasopressin
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adrenal cortex
aldosterone, cortisol
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what is recovered memory
recalled from traumatic event
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consanguineal relations are ___ and affinal are ___
genetic, marriage
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Just world hypothesis says good people
deserve things bc work hard
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borderline personality is
instability in mood, managing relations
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psychoanalytic theories explain____ erikson is through
personality, social interaction
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when is it more likely to have situational disposition
more distinctive behaviour from everyone else
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interaction effect is
2 dif things interact and influence
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internal validity
degree of causation
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negative bias
neg things forced upon good
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foklways are ____ and moores are___
everyday norm, necessary for welfare (health)
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reciprocal determinism
persons behavior influenced by environment and personal factors
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anomie causes
is weakened social values causes people behave less ideal
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house money effect
after gain more likely take risk bc see as not own money
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labeling theory
labels assigned to group not bc behavior
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rational choice theory
more inclined select lower cost option
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diathesis-stress model
biological predisposition and situational
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humanistic explanation of behaviour
incongruence and self concept
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phobia is type of
classical conditioning
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binocular depth cue
retinal disparity
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change in behavior is ___ memory
implicit
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lack of effort is what type of control
external
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SSRI do what? and MAOI
block ruptake in presynaptic, prevent breakdown in pre
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place theory
perception of sound pitch
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mechonreceptors
movement, hair (auditory)
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monamines are
serotonin, norepi, domaine
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parkinsons affects
dopamine neurons in substantia nigra part of basal ganglia
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nucelus accumbres
part of reward
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somatosensory proprioreceptors
location and movement
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organ of corti
auditory info to temporal lobe
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REM sleep occurs
usually before waking
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sensory interaction
one sense influence another
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egocentrism
viewing world only own view
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how can cycle of worrying be explained
self fulfilling prophecy
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intrusion errors from
memory being reconstructive
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during arousal remember
central (emotion) and not peripheral (facts)
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measures of social stratification look at
class, status, power
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parvo path processes ____ and mango path ___
color+ form, motion + depth
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role of retina
light to electric signal
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behavior theory opinion on mental process
dont exist
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overextension
name to things of slight resemblance
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SS theory of emotion
exposure, physiological, interpret
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depth perception using 2 eyes
retinal disparity, binocular
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explicit memory is ___ term for ___
long, recalling facts
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symbolic interactionism is
personal experience
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what nt is involved when use recreational drugs
dopamine
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folkways are
traditional behaviour
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Asch conformity experiment varied
number of confederates
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top down based on
ideas, beleifs, expectations
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positive symptoms are
pathological excess
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humanistic approach is
reaching potential, personal growth
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flashbulb memory accuracy is
less accurate
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cultural relativism
no right or wrong culture
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parallel play is _____ usually in what age
observe others adjust play separately, young age
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age 2-7 a lot of ____ play
symbolic
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conflict theory focuses on
inequity
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health behaviors are
folkways
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moderating variables affects
strength of rltn
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classical condition present stimulus what order
CS then US
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parietal lobe for
spacial, temp, touch
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social facilitation leads to
improved performance
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reciprocal determinsm
behavior influences enviro and enviro influences
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Harlow experiment showed
contact comfort couldnt be corrected for after mechanical monkey
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What part of brain is responsible for physiological changes in emotion
hypothalamus
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What is place theory
percieving pitch
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self serving bias is when
success to internal, failure to external
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self fulfilling prophecy
belief influences behavior which causes belief become true
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framing bias
way info presented will change opinion
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Rorschach inkblot test is
subjective and projective
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self efficacy is
internal belief can do something
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webers law shows a ____ rltn btwn ____ and ____
linear, intensity and detection
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ratio measure means
range of number value at equal spaced interval
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taste aversions are
long term
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borderline personality has issue with
mood, rltn, suicidal thoughts
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biomedical approach emphasizes
cause diagnosis treatment
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erikson theory focuses on
life course through interaction
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ego is ____ superego ____ id ____
realistic, idealistic, selfish
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deep sleep, walking, bedwetting what stage?
3
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affect heuristic
making judegements based on emotions evoked
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social cognitive theory emphasizes
thinking and learnign develop personaility
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who is associated with obedience
Milgram
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informative pressure
change opinion to match people you think is better informed
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spreading activation is ___ for __
priming other nodes activated, better mem
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context effect
physical place
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Werinckles area for
language comp
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emotional components
behavioral, cognitive, phys
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universalism for language associated with _____ states ____
Piaget, cognition needed for language
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Brocas area for
speech production
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self monitoring is ____ process that involves ___
long term, reflection notes
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sublimation
challenge unacceptable urge into acceptable good thing
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I is ____ and me is ____
autonomous, collection attitudes from society
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prescriptive vs descriptive
pre belief, descp how actual is
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three component of stratification:
class power prestige
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social constructs are not ___
universal
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what bone helps move fluid in ear
stapes
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SSRI and MAOI act where
pre-synaptic
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parkinsons disease affects dopamine neurons in ___ which is part of ___ which controls
substantia nigra in basal ganglia voluntary motor
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monamine hypothesis
monamines affcet depresison
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somatosensory is for
location and movement
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origin of corti is in ___ and is for __
inner ear, sound processing transfer
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dreaming occurs in ____ sleep which happens ___
REM, before waking
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visual is what part of brain
left hemisphere
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proximity is for
grouping
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positive check in Malthusian theory
inc death rate
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feature detection
differences in specific aspect of stimulus (angle)
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iodine is used for
parathyroid
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general info means
crystallized and semantic memory
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Neurotransmitters bind
receptor on postsynaptic
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shadowing
repeat info as presented
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cultural transmission
passing info on
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what type of stimulus for sensory receptors
proximal
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false memory is
never happened or did but very dif
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self fulfilling prophecy
belief that becomes true
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universilism
cognition controls language
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differential association theory
learn deviant behavior from ppl close to
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borderline personality invovles
suicidal thoughts
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seretonin for
mood hunger
