PSYCH 100 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PSYCH 100 EXAM 4 PSU QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED Anorexia Nervosa - answerEating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation Distorted self-image; think they're bigger than they are Low body weight Anxiety Disorders - answerDisorders in which the main symptom is excessive or unrealistic anxiety Bipolar Disorder - answerSevere mood swings between major depressive and manic episodes Duration of episodes must be longer than one week Bulimia Nervo...

Psych 100 Exam 3 (PSU Crosby) With Complete Solutions anterograde amnesia - answerwhen memory for anything new becomes impossible, although old memories may still be retrievable constructive processing - answerRetrieval of memories in which those memories are altered, revised, or influenced by newer information declarative memory - answerThings that people know (or can know) echoic memory - answerSounds elaborative rehearsal - answerA method of transferring info from STM to LTM by making...

PSU Psych 100 Exam 2 Questions With Verified Solutions sensation - answerthe process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment perception - answerthe process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events bottom-up processing - answeranalysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brain's integration of sensory information top-down processi...

PSYCH 100 Exam 4 PSU-Laurent Questions With Verified Solutions psychological disorder - answera collection of symptoms marked by a "clinically significant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior" when are disturbances considered "dysfunctional"? - answerwhen they interfere with every day life are mental health issues common? - answeryes mental health issues risk factors - answeracademic failure, birth complications, abuse, trauma mental health protective factors - ...

PSYCH 100 Exam 3 ~ CROSBY PSU Questions With Verified Solutions circadian rhythm - answera cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over a 24-hour period - sleep wake cycle REM Sleep - answer- rapid eye movement -eyes moving under eyelids -increase in body function (ex: heartbeat) - 90% of dreaming - REM paralysis Stages of Sleep: Stage 1 - answerNonREM light sleep hypnic jerk/hypnic image quiet sleep Stages of Sleep: Stage 2 - answertemperature, breathing, and heart rate decrease; sleep ...

PSYCH 100 EXAM 1 PSU QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS structuralists - answerlooked at the brain in smaller pieces like they all had specific functions without looking at the big picture. Tried to have people use introspection to have them describe what they're feeling but it didn't really work out that well. functionalists - answeranalyzed the function and purpose of behavior; looking at the function of the mind; why does our mind evolve to the way it is experimental psychologists - a...

Psych 100 Crosby Exam 2 With complete solutions consciousness - answera person's awareness of everything that is going on around him or her at any given moment -- used to organize behavior waking consciousness - answer-thoughts, feelings, sensations are clear -the person is alert and experiences are clear -able to use information to direct our behaviors and senses altered state of consciousness - answer-shift of consciousness from waking -shift in quality or pattern in mental activity ...

PSU PSYCH 100 Crosby Exam 2 With Complete Solutions altered state of consciousness - answerany of various states of awareness (as dreaming sleep, a drug-induced hallucinogenic state, or a trance) that deviate from and are usually clearly demarcated from ordinary waking consciousness circadian rhythm - answera cycle of bodily rhythm that occurs over a 24-hour period consciousness - answera person's awareness of everything that is going on around him or her at any given moment dreams - a...

Psych 100 Exam 3 (PSU Crosby), Psych 100 Exam 2 (PSU Crosby) With complete and Verified Solutions anterograde amnesia when memory for anything new becomes impossible, although old memories may still be retrievable constructive processing Retrieval of memories in which those memories are altered, revised, or influenced by newer information declarative memory Things that people know (or can know) echoic memory Sounds elaborative rehearsal A method of transferring info from STM to LTM...

PSYCH 100 PSU FINAL CUMULATIVE EXAM Elliot Questions With 100% Correct Answers Correlation - answerHow strongly two factors vary together Positive correlation - answer0.1 - +1.0 Negative correlation - answer-1.0 - -0.1 Correlation does not equal causation - answerTrue Scientific Method Steps - answerObservation, question, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion (accept or reject) Experiment - answerone (or more) variables is manipulated by the experimenter Independent variables (IV)- - answ...