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Psychology Semester 2 Flashcards

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Actualizing Tendency

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the desire to reach the various needs that humans have.

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Agoraphobia

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the fear of being in a place that a person cannot escape from or where he can’t get help if he experiences a panic attack.

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Algorithms

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systematic procedures that provide solutions

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Alfred Binet

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Developed the model for most of today’s intelligence tests.

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Ambivalence

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Conflicting thoughts and motives

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Anti-social personality disorder

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A chronic indifference to others that can include harming others or violating rights.

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Anxiety

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the apprehension or tension at anticipation of danger

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Arousal Theory

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States that each of us has an optimal level of arousal and that we are constantly trying to reach

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Analogical reasoning

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the process of understanding a novel or new situation by using a familiar one.

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Appraisal theories

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Focus on how individuals process and evaluate the situations they are in with relation to emotions

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Basic level

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the broadest category where items share common characteristics that are distinctive.

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Big five factors

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Including openness to experience

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Bipolar disorder

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Characterized by one or more episodes of mania and one or more episodes of major depression.

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Borderline personality disorder

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Characterized by instability

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Categories

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groupings of things based on common characteristics

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Charles Spearman

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The person to use factor analysis to study intelligence.

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Chunking

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A strategy that can be used to increase the amount of information stored in short term memory.

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Classical conditioning

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one of the first types of learning to be studied and it is also referred to as Pavlovian or respondent conditioning

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Conditional response

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One that has been learned

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Conditioned Stimulus

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A stimulus that through learning comes to bring forth the response.

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Concepts

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Mental representations of categories

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Confirmation Bias

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the tendency to look for affirmation of what we already believe

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Conscious mental processes

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Mental activities that we are aware of

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Culture pattern approach

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suggests that individual personality reflects cultural practices

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David Wechsler
Developed Intelligence tests that were less biased towards non-native English speakers.
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Decay theory
Suggests that forgetting happens because of fading memory connections
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Decision Making
the process of weighing the pros and cons of different alternatives and making a choice.
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Deductive reasoning
Involves reasoning fromaset of assumption or premises
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Delusions
false beliefs
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Distress
Negative stress or that which brings about negative feelings
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Echoic Storage
the same as iconic storage only it refers to auditory information that is stored momentarily
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Ego
The mental structure that balances between the id and the structure
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Emotions
positive and negative emotions
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Emotional Intelligence
the ability to perceive emotions
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Encoding
the processing of information and other input into your memory
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Episodic Memory
Memories of particular events that is specific to a context.
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Eu-stress
Healthy stress or that which brings positive feelings
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Extrinsic Motivation
Some form of external reward
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Extinction
A situation where no consequence follows the behavior.
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Extroversion
The tendency to be sociable and active
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Factors
Related elements in factor analysis
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False self
Begins as a mask that the individual wears and eventually adopts as their psychological self
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Factitious disorder
Occurs when an individual purposely tries to injure or make themselves sick
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Five- factor Model
Separates traits into types
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Generalized anxiety
A disorder in which an individual experiences anxiety and worry most of the time.
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General Adaption Syndrome
Has three stages : Alarm
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Goals
desired outcomes that we have through social learning
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Grammar
The system in a given language for generating acceptable utterances and for identifying those that are not acceptable
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Habituation
the decreased response to a stimulus after repeated presentation
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Health psychology
Studies of how psychological influences keep people healthy
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Hierarchy of needs
States that basic survival has to be met before higher needs like esteem
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Howard Gardner
Came up with the theory of multiple intelligence's
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Homeostasis
The tendency to move towards a need-free or drive-free state
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Iconic storage
Momentary visual information memory
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Instincts
Complex patterns of behavior that are genetically determined
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Interference
The confusion of two similar memories with each other
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Inductive reasoning
Involves reasoning from specific information to general information
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Intelligence
our ability to apply the knowledge that we have to perform better in the environment that we are in
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Intelligence tests
measures of cognitive abilities that compare an individual to others
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Incentives
External rewards
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Instincts
Patterns of behavior that occur without learning and are relatively consistent
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Ideal Self
a perception about what the individual thought he should be
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Id
The part of us that is untamed and driven by impulse and instinct
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Intrinsic Motivation
the enjoyment of the activity itself
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Instinct Model
Focused on the drives and motivations that people have
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Introversion
The other end of a scale from extroversion and refers to being socially inhibited and cautious
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Ivan Pavlov
A Russian physiologist who studied the digestive systems of dogs in the late nineteenth century and discovered classical conditioning
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Laws of association
The conditions under which a thought becomes connected to another
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Law of Continuation
says that two events can become connected to each other if they happen close together.
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Law of effect
says that an animal's change of repeating a behavior depends on the behaviors consequence for the animal.
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Law of similarity
says that two things may become connected if they look like or resemble each other in someway
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Language
the system of symbols
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Learning
A lasting change in the way that a person (or animal) responds based on its experience
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Major depression
a depressed mood for the majority of the day
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Memory
our ability to take what we have observed and putting it into a form that we can share
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Mental models
Representation that predict
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Mental Simulations
Involves imagining the steps that you will have to take to solve the problem before you actually begin them.
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Mental Age
The average age at which children can achieve a certain score on an intelligence test
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Mental Disorders
Persistent abnormal functioning
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Modeling
Another form of observational learning and it involves people reproducing the behavior that they see in another.
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Motivated forgetting
Forgetting for a reason
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Morphemes
The smallest units of meaning
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Moods
Extended periods of an emotional state
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Motivation
The force behind the behavior that makes us avoid some aspects of life and to pursue other aspects
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Characterized by grandiose thoughts of the self and unemphatic response to others

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