Psychology 1 Flashcards
Conditioned response
Learned response to neutral stimulus
Unconditioned stimulus
Something that prompts a natural or instinctual behavioural response
Unconditional Response
Natural behavioural instinct in response to an unconditioned stimulus
Neutral stimulus
A stimulus which does not prompt a response on its own and must be paired with an unconditioned stimulus
Conditioned stimulus
A formerly neutral stimulus that can now prompt a conditioned response due to an association with the unconditioned stimulus
Conditioned response
Learned response to a conditioned stimulus
Amygdala
Brain’s “guard dog” that detects danger and potential threats, sending a signal to our autonomic nervous system to react accordingly
Hippocampus
Par of the limbic system that helps us form and save new memories
Limbic system
Helps us manage emotions and memories, activating survival instincts and forming a healthy attachment in our relationships
Cortisol
Stress hormone that makes your heart beat and your breathing to accelerate, high levels of energy will be sent to your muscles to avoid the strength
Cortex
Allows you to imagine, create, problem solve, and understand emotions
Prefrontal cortex
Allows us to asses the situation detected
Neuroplasticity
The idea that our brains are constantly changing, neurons can connect and reconnect to make pathways and networks
Defense Mechanisms
Repression- unacceptable desires/impulses are excluded from consciousness and are left to operate in the unconscious
Denial- refusing to recognize or acknowledge that something is painful
Displacement- shifting an emotion to another object, person, or situation
Projection- attributing threatening impulses and emotions on someone else, saying they are feeling something that you feel
Psychology
Seems to understand how people think, perceive, and act in a wide range of situations
Id
Operates on pleasure principle and avoids pain, innate desires like aggression, pleasure seeking, and sexual impulse
Ego
Rational part of the mind that operates on the reality principle, urges mature, adaptive behaviour
Superego
Operates on morality principle, society’s morals, values, and ethics, parental
Psychodynamic perspective
Unlocking the conscious mind is the key to understanding human behaviour and relationships, what is underneath the present feeling, resolving a patients conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings
Conscious
Rational mind, awareness of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions
Preconscious
Memories, stored knowledge
Unconscious
Irrational mind, primary urges, selfish desires, violent motives, immoral ways, unacceptable sexual desires, shame, fears