Psychology Flashcards

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Soft skills

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Personal attributes that allows someone to interact harmoniously with others

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Net working

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The process of making connections and building relationships

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Facts about emotional intelligence (EQ)

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-more important that IQ
-reduces anxiety and stress
-communicate better
-defuse conflicts
-improve relationship
-emphasize with other
-effectively overcome life challenges

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Amygdala

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Fear

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What is psychology?

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Scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Nature

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Born with it, we can’t change it

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Nurture

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What you learn, who you become

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Critical thinking

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Ability to analyze,evaluate, and synthesize information

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Consuelors

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-don’t treat mental disorder
-use talk therapy
-deal with daily problems

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Psychologists

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-Have a PhD
-they do counseling too

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Clinical psychologists

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Treat people with mental,emotional, and behavioral disorders

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School psychologists and clinical psychologists have…

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Have the same PhD

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Forensic psychologists

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-PhD
-testify in court
-they study criminal behavior

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14
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Sanity is…

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A legal term, NOT a psychological one

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Experimental psychologists

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They experiment on people and they have a PhD

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Psychiatrist

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Dr.simi but instead of paracetamol they give drugs to control your mental illness, and have a Phd

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Wilhelm wundt

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First experimental psychologists

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Biopsychology, neurobiology, and neuroscience are….

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The same

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Biopsychologist perpective

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Studies brain, emotions, memories, sensory experiences and how hormones and genetics affect our behavior

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Neurotransmitters

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Neuropinephrine,GABA,Dopamine,Serotonin

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Norepinephrine

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Fight or flight, too much stress, too little gives you depression

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GABA

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Relaxes you

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Dopamine

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Makes you happy

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Serotonin

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Feels good

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Psychoanalytic perspective

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Unconscious

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Cognitive perspective

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Focus on what we think, attempt to change the way we think

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Behavioral perspectives

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Observable behaviors, rewards and punishments

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Sociocultural perspective

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How culture affects our behavior

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Humanistic perspective

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Self-actualization

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Evolutionary perspective

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How the natural selection of traits had promoted the survival of genes

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Stress

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Response to stressors or things we see as challenging

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Symptoms of stress

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-ruins sleep
-makes you skin look bad
-bad for your heart
-likely to get sick
-messes up digestión

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Appraisal model of stress

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Stress depends on our cognitive appraisal of the event and our resources to solve it

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4 main stressors

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Catastrophes, significant life changes, daily hassles, and socio cultural hassles

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Three stage physiological adaptation to stress

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Alarm, resistance, exhaust

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Cortysol

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Stress

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Type A of personality

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Competitive, hard drive, inpatient, angry and hostile

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Type B of personality

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Easy going, relaxed

39
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Anger management

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-Catharsis
-wait
distraction/support
-overthinking
-forgive

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Catharsis

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Releasing aggressive energy

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Social support

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Resources provided by others

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Emotional support

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Direct assistance

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Suggestions

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Advice

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Coping

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Resolver

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Problem-focused coping

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Attempt to change the stressor or the way we interact

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Emotional focused coping

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Attempting to relieve or regulate the emotional impact of a stressful situation

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If you have too much cortisol for a lot of time it can…

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Shrinks your brain, decreases neuron making,can cause alzhimer

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Can the effects of cortisol be reversed

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Yes with meditation and exercise

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Feel good, do-good

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People tendecy to be helpful when they feel good

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Event + response =

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Outcome