Psych Soc Uworld supplemental

avoidant attachment

little separation anxiety and tendency to resist contact with the parent

ambivalent attachment

strong separation anxiety and a tendency to resist contact with the parent

when conflict comes up, its the responsibility of the (id/ego/superego) to resolve it

superego

life course approach focuses on (micro/macro)

micro

scapegoating

assigning blame often when that’s not the real cause

opposite of antagonism from OCEAN

agreeableness

external motivation

social pressure (narrow term)

extrinsic motivation

any motivation that regular from incentives to perform behaviors (BROAD TERM)

incongruence

gap between person’s actual and ideal self

attraction and commitment to a group is greatest when members share

cultural capital

overextension

applying a term for one class of objects to other objects that bear only a superficial resemblance

the naming explosion

kids learn a lot of words quickly

bootstrapping

initial stages of grammatical development

law of emergence

perceive whole before we look as parts

multistability

tendency of ambiguous visual stimuli to rapidly pop back and forth

subjective contours

incomplete figures look complete

invariance

recognize objects as the same thing regardless of how it’s rotated, stretched, dsitorted

closure

we fill in gaps to make a whole object

continuity

human eye naturally follows the smoothest path (things in same row are together)

common fate

things moving in same direction are together

stereopsis

retinal disparity the realtime location of each retina allows for different images of the object to be processed

accommodation (monocular cue)

internal movement fo teh ciliary muscles altering the dadie of the lens

convergence

external eye moving

case study

studies a person/group of people and is purely obseravtional

schizo positive symptoms

hallucinations

delusions

disorganized speech

disorganized behavior

schizo negative symptoms

apathy

flat affect

lack of speech

anhedonia (inability for pleasure)

two things being processed simultaneously makes response time

slower

feature detection theory

lines, edges, angles

parallel processing

color, motion, shape, depth

SSRI’s

block reuptake of seratonin into presynaptic neuron

monamine oxidase inhibitors

decrease breakdown of monamines

nucleus accumbens

reward pleasure

visual contralateralization

sensory input from left visual field is processed in right hemisphere

language lateralization

language production is left hemisphere

the hypothalamus contains

SCN

SCN

primary biological clock

chances of dreaming are higher

towards the end pf sleep

ablation

getting rid of something

associative learning

classical conditioning

interactionist theory of lang

biology plus environment

learning perspective theory of lang

operant conditioning and imitation/repetition

nativist perspective

innate and biologically predetermined; occurs during a critical time sensitive period

cerebellum

motor learning and coordination of posture

temporal lobe

learning, memory, auditory processing

frontal lobe

executive functions, voluntayr motor initiation

parietal lobe

proprioception, somatosensation

occiptal

visual

wernicke

language comprehension

sensory memory stays for how long

very less

implicit or procedural memory is involved in what

motor skills

an average of something means what kind of ratio

variable ratio

desensitization

reducing an exaggerated response

representative heuristic

how well something matches a mental prototype

normal memory decay forgetting curve looks like

exponential drop

anabolic steroid means

drugs

visuospatial skills

right hemisphere

flashbulb memory

confident but forget a lot

critical period

infancy to puberty