PSY 201 Final Midlands Tech

Psychoanalytic Approach

Focuses on unconscious processes and unresolved conflicts

Three criteria used by psychologists to diagnose disorders

Deviance, Maladaptive Behavior, going against social norms

Classrooms Experiment 77 degrees and 88 degrees. What's the temperature of the room in the scenario?

Independent

The neurotransmitter associated with Schizophrenia

dopamine

For several weeks Terri has been experiencing feelings of overwhelming sadness and despair. Terri is very upset by her depression and frequently tells her family and friends how unhappy she is. Terri could be diagnosed as having a psychological disorder since she meets the criterion of

personal distress

Personality tests that ask individuals to respond to vague stimuli

Projective tests

In experimental research the researcher manipulates the ________ variable in order to measure its effect on the ___________ variable.

independent and dependent

According to Maslow after people satisfy their physiological needs and safety and security needs they will next become concerned with

belongingness and love needs

If a psychological disorder results in an individual having difficulty completing routine or necessary everyday activities, the individual's behavior would most likely be considered

Maladaptive

In classical conditioning, a CR is

conditioned response

Psychotherapy can be best characterized as

a slow or gradual process that requires hard work or effort.

Ashley finds a wallet on the floor at the store. She decides to turn in the wallet at the lost-and-found because she believes her parents will be proud of her for being honest. Ashley's reasoning reflects the ____ level of moral development.

conventional

The central nervous system consists of

brain and spinal cord

Storage capacity of STM

limited to "magic number" seven CHUNKS

The ID is

the primitive, instinctive component of personality

An unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning

unconditioned response

The type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus is

classical conditioning

people have a basic need to fulfill their potential for personal growth and experience free will

humanism

Decision making, problem solving, and language are topics most likely to be studied by

cognitive

Personality tests that ask individuals to answer a series of questions about their characteristic behavior

self-report inventories

The type of learning that occurs when an organism's responding is influenced by the observation of others who are called models is

observational learning

the "big five" personality traits in psychology

extraversion , agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism

Hypothalamus

a neural structure lying below the thalamus; directs eating, drinking, body temperature; helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland, and is linked to emotion

_______ psychologists are concerned with changes in behavior throughout the life span.

developmental

negative reinforcement

the reinforcement of a response by the removal, escape from, or avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus

example of negative reinforcement

-student comes in late, take away their ability to go to the treasure box for a treat

-student changes behavior and comes in early to regain that

Psychological tests that measure a persons mastery and knowledge of various subjects are referred to as

achievement tests

The main function of dendrites is to

receive information

According to Piaget, a child can represent things with words and images but cannot reason with logic during the ________ stage.

preoperational

Your memory for personal facts consisting of memories of things you did

episodic memory

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