Psychology Definitions

Question 1

Perception

Answer 1

How do we take in info about the world?

Question 2

Attention

Answer 2

How do we notice things?

Question 3

Memory

Answer 3

How do we keep hold of the things we know?

Question 4

Problem solving + reasoning

Answer 4

How do we use what we know to make judgements + decisions?

Question 5

Making sense

Answer 5

Perception
Attention
Memory
Problem Solving + Reasoning

Question 6

Motion parallax

Answer 6

Further away objects move slower

Question 7

Interposition

Answer 7

Things in front of other things are close

Question 8

Serial position curve

Answer 8

We remember beginning + end (not middle)

Question 9

Recency effect

Answer 9

Most recent info not displaced by new info

Question 10

Primacy effect

Answer 10

Rehearsal keeps info in STM + helps info get into LTM

Question 11

Divisions of LTM

Answer 11

Declarative
Procedural
Semantic
Episodic

Question 12

Whorfian Hypothesis

Answer 12

Our understanding of the world is shaped by the language available to us

Question 13

Logic

Answer 13

Forming logical conclusions from arguments

Question 14

Reasoning

Answer 14

How we understand the world in a more complex way

Question 15

Representativeness heuristic

Answer 15

The more you know about something, the more likely you are to draw stereotyped conclusions

Question 16

Health psychology

Answer 16

Disease prevention and health promotion

Question 17

Stress

Answer 17

Type of response that consists of tension, discomfort or physical symptoms that arise when a situation (stressor) occurs

Question 18

Biological psychology

Answer 18

Application of principles of biology to understand mental processes + behaviour

Question 19

Polygenic

Answer 19

Phenotype influenced by more than one gene

Question 20

Frontal lobe

Answer 20

Planning
Goals
Decisions

Question 21

Primary motor cortex

Answer 21

Controls voluntary movement

Question 22

Primary somatosensory cortex

Answer 22

Sensing body position, touch, pain, temp

Question 23

Limbic system

Answer 23

Motivation

Emotion

Question 24

Primary visual cortex

Answer 24

Sight

Question 25

Cerebellum

Answer 25

Coordinates movement
Posture
Balance

Question 26

Amygdala

Answer 26

Controls emotion + formation of emotional memory

Question 27

Hippocampus

Answer 27

Acquisition of memory

Question 28

Hypothalamus

Answer 28

Regulates motivated behaviour

Question 29

Social psychology

Answer 29

Scientific study of ppl living everyday lives

Question 30

Schemata

Answer 30

Frameworks of knowledge

Question 31

Mental illness

Answer 31

Diagnosable illness that significantly interferes w/ individual’s cognitive, emotional or social abilities

Question 32

Legal definition of mental illness

Answer 32

Person’s clinical diagnosis of mental illness can result in involuntary treatment if reasonable grounds for believing that care, treatment or control of the person is necessary for their own protection from serious harm or for protection of others

Question 33

Echolalia

Answer 33

Repetition of recently heard sound or phase

Question 34

Disorganised behaviour

Answer 34

Not goal directed or guided by rational plan

Question 35

Catatonia

Answer 35

Muscular rigidity + lack of response to outside stimuli or acute agitation

Question 36

Avolition

Answer 36

Apathy, inability to initiate + persist in activities, little interest in daily activities

Question 37

Alogia

Answer 37

Poverty or relative absence of speech

Question 38

Anhedonia

Answer 38

Lack of pleasure or indifference to activities that would normally be considered pleasureable

Question 39

Affective flattening

Answer 39

Absence of normally expected emotional responses

Question 40

Syndrome

Answer 40

Association of several clinically recognisable features, signs, symptoms, phenomena or characteristics that often occur together