Psych final

coping styles

the ways in which people reach to threatening events

tent-and-befriend response

responding to stress with nurturing activities designed to protect oneself and one’s offspring (tending) and creating social networks that provide protection from threats (befriending)

resilience

mild, transient reactions to stressful events, followed by a quick return to normal, healthy functioning

perceived control

the belief that we can influence our environment in ways that determine whether we experience positive or negative outcomes

fight-or-flight response

responding to stress by either attacking the source of the stress or fleeing from it

social support

the perception that others are responsive and receptive to one’s needs

stress

the negative feelings and beliefs that arise whenever people feel unable to cope with demands from their environment

internal-external locus of control

the tendency to believe that things happen because we control them versus believing that good and bad outcomes are out of our control

own-race bias

the tendency for people to be better at recognizing faces of their own race than those of other races

reconstructive memory

the process whereby memories of an event become distorted by information encountered after the event occurred

storage

the process by which people maintain in memory information they have encoded from the environment

retrieval

the process by which people recall information stored in their memories

recovered memories

recollections of a past event, such as sexual abuse, that have been forgotten or repressed

false memory syndrome

remembering a past traumatic experience that is objectively false, but is nevertheless accepted by the person as true

source monitoring

the process whereby people try to identify the source of their memories

story model

the theory that jurors try to fit the evidence they hear at trial into a coherent story, and ultimately reach a verdict that best fits the story they have created

encoding

the process by which people attend to information in their environment and transform this sensory data into a mental representation