Psych Soc/Master Doc Flashcards
Bipolar disorder major characteristics
Characterized by extreme mood swings and energy levels
The 3 As of stress
Anger: type A: easily angered individuals, agressive, competitive
-Type B: easygoing
Anxiety: Amygdala: fears/phobias lead to perception of things as more fearful
Addiction: Coping mechanisms for stress can lead to addiction
World Systems Theory
Looks at world as a unit rather than individual countries
Where is the region associated with proprioception and kinesthesia located?
In central region of temporal lobe
Pheremones
Chemicals secreted by one animal
-Once bonded with chemoreceptors, compel/urge another animal to behave in a specific way
Gray vs White Matter
Gray: Most neuron somas -Inside of spinal cord -Outside of brain White: Myelinated axons -Outside of spinal cord -Inside of brain -Axons go down tracts of white matter
Contra lateral Control of brain
Left brain controls right body and right brain controls left body
-True for all senses
Substance induced vs substance use disorders
Induced: caused by substance
Use: drug causes impact of life
Optic disk
No rods or cones
-Blind spot of the eye
Hindbrain development
Divides into myencephalon and metencephalon
Myencephalon=medulla oblongata
Metencephalon=pons and cerebellum
Hypomania definition
Mild forms of mania: Lots of energy, creativity
-Does not always develop into mania
Material culture vs non material
Material: physical and technological aspects of daily lives -Food/houses Non-material: aka symbolic culture -Doesn't include physical objects -Ideas beliefs and values
Examples of rewards and punishments of exchange theory
Rewards: social approval, money, gifts, positive gestures
Punishments: negative gestures, disapproval, public humiliation
Oppression
Someone treated unjustly and encouraged to occupy gender based social roles
Shadowing
Experiment that studies selective attention by repeating things heard in one ear and ignoring those heard in the other
Economy institution types
Capitalism: private ownership of production with market economy based on supply and demand
Socialism: motivated by what benefits society as a whole
-Common ownership of production that focuses on human needs and economic demands
What are utricle and saccule sensitive to?
Sensitive to linear acceleration
-Balancing apparatus to determine one’s orientation in 3D space
How are different sizes of societies held together under functionalist viewpoint
Small societies: held together by similarities
-Once population starts to grow, people become specialized and less similar
Large: stay together when individuals become interdependent on each other in their different roles
Schizoid disorder
Emotionally detached in relationships and shows little emotion
What are the 6 univeresal emotions
FAHDSS F: Fear A Anger H Happiness D Disgust S Surprise S Sadness
Cultural natural selection
Certain behaviors in cultures have a greater chance of being passed onto the next generation
Peripher nation
Relatively weak gov
Influenced/dependent greatly on core countries and transnational corportaions
Economy focused on one activity like extracting raw material
High percentage of people are poor/uneducated
Strong upper class controls economy
Many inequalities
Main criticism of social constructionism
Doesn’t consider effect of natural phenomenon on society
-Strong constructionism has difficulty explaining phenomeno that don’t depend on human speech or actions
Two-point threshold
Min. distance necessary between two points of stimulation on the skin.
-Below threshold, two stimuli felt as one