PSYCH 101

sensation - Answer the way that our bodies sense stimuli perception - Answer how our brains process the stimuli sensed by our body top-down processing - Answer information processing guided by a higher-level mental processes bottom-up processing - Answer analysis that begins with the sensory receptors absolute threshold - Answer the minimum stimulation necessary for detection 50% of the time difference threshold - Answer the minimum difference a person can detect...

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For which concept is Abraham Maslow best known? - Answer Proposing a hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior The empirical method of study is based on ________. - Answer observation of phenomena. Lucy wants to study changes in physical attributes, cognitive skills, moral reasoning, and social behavior across the lifespan. Lucy should specialize in ________ psychology. - Answer developmental Susan wants to study prejudice, attraction, how we explain our own behavior vers...

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Anxiety - Answer Ex. Nervous to tell your parents when you get in trouble. Adaptive vs. Maladaptive: Adaptive is when you have enough anxiety to study and maladaptive is when its too much Anxiety disorder - Answer Anxiety that begins to interfere with an individual’s life in a significant way. Generalized Aniexty Disorder Definition - Answer Excessive worry about everyday things. Ex. Piglet GAD Symptoms - Answer Excessive worry, muscle tension, fatigue, agitation/restless...

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Variables - Answer the events, characteristics, behaviors, or conditions that researchers measure and study. subject or participant - Answer an individual person or animal a researcher studies. Sample - Answer a collection of subjects researchers study. Researchers use samples because they cannot study the entire population. Population - Answer the collection of people or animals from which researchers draw a sample. Researchers study the sample and generalize their results ...

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When a behavior is _____, it is often considered abnormal. a. negative and more impulsive b. atypical in that it deviates from what is acceptable in a culture c. overly repetitive d. unique - Answer b. atypical in that it deviates from what is acceptable in a culture When a behavior interferes with a person's ability to function effectively in the world, it is considered _____. a. deviant b. dependent c. maladaptive d. repetitive - Answer c. maladaptive They American Psych...

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hindsight bias - Answer the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it - the "I knew it all along" phenomenon critical thinking - Answer thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions, rather it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions theory - Answer an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events hypothe...

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implicit memory - Answer type of long-term learning that doesn't require conscious thought to learn (memory made without intent) chunk - Answer process of grouping info together using prior knowledge (ex. Chess player study) classical conditioning - Answer stimulus-stimulus associative learning encoding - Answer the pact of putting info into memory habituation - Answer response to a stimulus-stimulus decreases with exposure implicit learning - Answer acquiring...

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personality - Answer the characteristic ways that people differ from one another personality traits - Answer enduring dispositions in behavior that show differences across individuals, and which tend to characterize the person across varying types of situations continuous distributions - Answer characteristics can go from low to high, with all different immediate values possible; one does not simply have that trait or not have it, but can possess varying amounts of both the thr...

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Consciousness - Answer the awareness of internal and external stimuli External events - Answer World around you; your environment Internal sensations - Answer Breathing in and out; meditation Awareness of self - Answer Thoughts and feelings included/ how it reacts to the environment Awareness of thoughts and feeling - Answer why you choose one thing or the other; decisions Motion-Induced Blindness - Answer We can't pay attention to every visual cue going on ar...

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According to three separate surveys, administered in 1983, 2006, and 2009, which statement about the relationship between stress and sex is the most accurate? a.Men and women report experiencing approximately the same amount of stress. b.Women report experiencing more stress than men. c.While women report experiencing less stress later in life, men report experiencing more stress later in life. d.Men report experiencing more stress than women. - Answer b. Women report experiencing more st...

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absolute threshold - Answer the smallest amount of stimulation needed for detection by a sense agnosia - Answer loss of the ability to perceive stimuli anosmia - Answer loss of the ability to smell audition - Answer ability to process auditory stimuli (also called hearing) auditory canal - Answer tube running from outer ear to middle ear auditory hair cells - Answer receptors in the cochlea that transduce sound into electrical potentials binocular disparity - ...

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Sleep apnea - Answer _______ is a condition in which a person has difficulty breathing while sleeping. Exercise during the day - Answer Research on sleep disorders has shown that one of the best ways to overcome insomnia is to: Drinking multiple cups of coffee within four hours of going to sleep will lead to: - Answer More time in light sleep and less time in deep sleep Consciousness - Answer Your psychology professor calls on you during class. The first thought that goes th...

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Emotions - Answer Feelings that have physiological and cognitive elements and influence behavior Physiological elements - Answer Activation of autonomic nervous system Cognitive elements - Answer Thoughts and evaluations of the situation Functions of emotions - Answer Increases chance of survival Shapes future behavior Helps us interact more effectively Positive emotions - Answer Help broaden our thinking and behavior and widen our cognitive perspective, making our ...

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