General Psychology Final

Spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning

System of rules that allows us to communicate with and understand others

What does the word mean (context/way you say things)

Rules to order words into sensible sentences

The father of language theory

Naom Chomshy

Just sounds

Sounds similar to actual words

A language impairment

Can't turn thinking into words (word salad)

Cannot form thoughts into words, cannot speak

Broca's aphasia

Broca's aphasia

The ability to learn from experiences and solve problemsse knowledge to adapt to new situations

Linguistics, mathematic, musical, spatial, kinetic-bodily, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalist

Howard Gardner

Analytic, practical, creative

Robert Sternberg

Academic intellegence

Real world intellegence

Art stuff

Perceive, understand, manage, use

Assesses people's mental aptitudes, and compairs them with others

Assesses what you've learned

Predicts a person's future achievements

There is a standard that must be met

A response of the whole organism that involves interplay amoung bodily arousal, expressive behavior, and conscious experience

Our experience of emotion is because of physical stimuli

Emotions come from experiences (bodily arousal reacts to emotions, but is not the cause)

Our physical reactions and thoughts together create emotion

Arousal from one event effects over other event effects

Info goes straight to amigdala

"What am I actually thinking?"

Part of the brain that controls arousal

Fight or flight (releases stress hormones)

Calms the body after a stressful event ends

Part of the brain that feels negative emotions

Open emotions

More reserved/less visible emotions

Joy
Interest and excitement
Surprise
Sadness
Anger
Disgust
Contempt
Fear
Shame
Guilt

When we release energy (emotions)

When we feel good we are more likely to do good

focus on human flourishing

Martin Seligman

The process by which we apraise and respond to threatening or chalenging events

Stressor, stress reaction

Aproach-approach, avoidance-avoidance, approach-avoidance

2 good choices (like 2 job offers)

2 bad choices (like to study or do chores)

2 choices one positive and one negative (like marriage)

Alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion

Alarm reaction: on edge/tense

Resistance: Get up to deal with situation

Exhaustion

Change external things to help stress (like stressed about homework, so you do the homework)

Talking or distracting

Convincing yourself it's not a big deal

The ability to control impulses and delay short term gratification for long term reward

Relaxing

Promotes self-control
Attendance is stable + more community

Language impairment

Can talk, but doesn't make sense

Can't turn thoughts into words

How we think about, influence, and relate to another

We attribute to a person's behavior in two ways: Distribution and situation

Personality (part of who they are)

How someone acts based on situation/environment (part of the situation)

Our tendencies to overestimate the dispositional and situational attribution

Feelings that are often influenced by beliefs or predispositions to objects/people/events

When a person says yes to a little thing, they are more likely to say yes to a big thing

We feel discomfort because our actions conflict with our attitude (you don't like a person, but after a while of being around them you do)

Persuaded by accidental causes

Persuaded by the arguement itself

Adjusting our behavior and thinking towards some group standard

Tend to mimic others

We feel incompetant/insecure

Following the crowd to avoid judgment (follow social norms)

Confirm to others beliefs

Asks teacher to discipline student (shock when thet get something wrong)

We confirm to social preasures

We watch people, and act like others more (we act better when watched)

When we are anonymous, we are less restrained

in a group with like-minded people, beliefs grow stronger

The desire for harmony overrides alternatives (don't believe things to maintain peace)

Unjustifiable/negative attitude toward a group and its members

unconscious bias

Any physical or verbal behavior intended to harm anyone physically or emotionally