Unit 3

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What word refers to the state of being aware of one’s existence/surroundings?
Conciousness
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Does multitasking work well?
No
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Which of these does our conciousness NOT allow us to do? 1. Restrict our attention, 2. Provide a mental meeting place, 3. Create mental models for the future, and 4. Process actions
4. Process actions
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Which level of the nonconcious mind stores information not currently thought of, but can be called upon voluntarily?
Preconciousness
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What level of the nonconcious mind involves no awareness of brain activity?
Unconciousness
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What word refers to our attention shifting to memories/fantasies from immediate situation?
Daydreaming
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Which level of Sigmund Freud’s Theory is based on our pleasure principle?
Id
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Which level of Sigmund Freud’s Theory is based on our morality principle?
Superego
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Which level of Sigmund Freud’s Theory is based on our reality principle?
Ego
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Who believed that the unconcious was a sort of mental dungeon where terrible urges are “locked up”?
Sigmund Freud
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What’s the name of the theory stating that men unconciously lust after their mothers?
Oedipus Complex
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What’s the name of the theory that states that women lust after their fathers?
Electra Complex
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What’s the name of the theory that states that girls compete for male attention?
Penis Envy
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What word describes unfulfilled wishes?
Dreams
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What word refers to sexual desires?
Libido
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What word refers to a tendency towards self-destruction?
Death Drive
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What word refers to an accident that reveals someone’s unconcious desires?
Freudian Slip
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What word refers to a lasting change in behavior/mental process as a result of an experience?
Learning
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What word refers to learning not to respond to a repeated stimulus? (Car honking)
Habituation
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What word refers to a learned preference for a stimuli based on prior exposure?
Mere Exposure Effect
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What kind of behavioral learning involves watching the behaviors of others?
Observational Learning
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What experiment is a famous example of observational learning?
The Bobo Doll Experiment
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What theory states that people learn largely through imitation and observation?
Social Learning Theory
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What kind of learning involves attaining knowledge passively?
Latent Learning
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Who discovered classical conditioning through experimenting with dogs?
Ivan Pavlov
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What creates a conditioned response through associations between an unconditioned stimulus and a neutral stimulus?
Classical Conditioning
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What does classical conditioning involve?
Automatic reflex
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What stimulus produces no response before conditioning?
Neutral Stimulus
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What stimulus produces a response automatically?
Unconditioned Stimulus
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What response occurs automatically?
Unconditioned Response
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What stimulus (formerly Neutral Stimulus) produces a response that was once associated with another stimulus?
Conditioned Stimulus
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What response is to a Conditioned Stimulus?
Conditioned Response
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What kind of conditioning allows you to control someone’s decisions?
Operant Conditioning
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What word refers to anything that encourages specific behavior?
Reinforcement
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What kind of reinforcement adds a reward?
Positive Reinforcement
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What kind of reinforcement removes something undesirable?
Negative Reinforcement
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What word refers to anything that discourages specific behavior?
Punishment
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What kind of punishment adds something undesirable?
Positive Punishment
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What kind of punishment removes a reward?
Negative Punishment
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Which punishment is most effective?
Negative Punishment
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What word refers to the system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information?
Memory
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What word refers to integrating information into memory?
Encoding
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What kind of encoding involves words?
Semantic Encoding
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What kind of encoding involves sounds?
Acoustic Encoding
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What kind of encoding involves images?
Visual Encoding
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What word refers to the holding of encoded information?
Storage
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How long does Sensory Memory last?
A few seconds
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How long does Short-Term Memory last?
approximately 20 seconds
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How long does Long-Term Memory last?
Forever
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What word refers to the locating and recovering of information?
Retrieval
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What word refers to the grouping of information into meaningful patterns?
Chunking
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What word refers to the action of repeating information while in short-term memory?
Rehearsal
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What kind of memory tells us how to do something?
Procedural Memory
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What kind of memory stores facts and events?
Declarative Memory
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What kind of memory stores personal experiences?
Episodic Memory
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What kind of memory stores general knowledge?
Semantic Memory
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What kind of memory stores vivid, emotional events?
Flashbulb Memory
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What part of the brain helps us process and retrieve memories?
Hippocampus
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What part of the brain helps solidify memories with strong emotional connections?
Amygdala
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What kind of forgetting refers to the inability to remember old memories?
Retrograde Amnesia
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What kind of forgetting refers to the inability to form new memories?
Anterograde Amnesia
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What word refers to the altering of memories to make them clearer?
Memory Construction
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What word refers to the incorporating of untrue information into the memory of an event?
Misinformation
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What word refers to the theory that especially traumatic memories can be stored in the unconcious to be later retrieved?
Repressed Memories
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What boosts the areas of the brain associated with memory and emotions?
Music
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What word refers to the smallest distinctive sound unit?
Phoneme
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What word refers to the smallest unit that carries meaning?
Morpheme
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What word refers to a system of rules in a language?
Grammar
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What stage of language development involves the usage of nonsensical noises?
Babbling Stage
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What stage of language development involves the usage of singular words?
One-Word Stage
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What stage of language development involves the usage of two-word statements?
Two-Word Stage
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What stage of language development involves the usage of auxiliary words?
Telegraphic Stage
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What are these a part of? (Physical arousal, cognitive interpretation, subjectice feelings, and behavioral expression)
Emotion
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How young can you be to recognize emotion?
5 years old
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Are emotions universal?
Yes
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What are these referred to? (Fear, Happiness, Disgust, Surprise, Sadness, Anger, and Contempt)
Universal Emotions
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What word refers to all the processes involced in starting, directing, and maintaining physical/psychological activities?
Motivation
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What kind of motivation is biology based?
Drive
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What kind of motivation is learned?
Motive
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What kind of motivation stems from the desire to perform a behavior due to a promised reward or threat of punishment?
Extrinsic Motivation
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What kind of motivation stems from a desire to perform a behavior to be a better person?
Intrinsic Motivation
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Who argued that humans behave to satisfy specific needs, specially in a particular order?
Abraham Maslow
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What is the first level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
Biological Needs
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What is the second level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
Safety Needs
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What is the third level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
Belonging Needs
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What is the fourth level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
Esteem Needs
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What is the fifth level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
Self-Actualization Needs
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What word refers to a physical and mental response to a threatening situation?
Stress
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What word refers to the threatening situation?
Stressor
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What is the first step of the response to a normal stressor?
Arousal
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What is the second step of the response to a normal stressor?
Protective Behavior
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What is the third step of the response to a normal stressor?
Nervous System Response
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What is the fourth step of the response to a normal stressor?
Decline in health
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What kind of normal stress is short-term?
Acute Stress
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What kind of normal stress is long-term?
Chronic Stress
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What stressor, created by a threatening situation, creates a feeling of helplessness?
Traumatic Stressor
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What is the first step of the response to a traumatic stressor?
Psychic Numbness
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What is the second step of the response to a traumatic stressor?
Automatic Action
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What is the third step of the response to a traumatic stressor?
Communal Effort
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What is the fourth step of the response to a traumatic stressor?
Letdown
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What is the fifth step of the response to a traumatic stressor?
Recovery
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What disorder may result from a traumatic event?
PTSD
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In which kind of therapy is the patient encouraged to speak freely so that one can identify unconcious prohblems to explore and fix them?
Psychodynamic Therapy
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What word refers to the therapist giving a prompt and telling the patient to shout an immediate reply?
Free Association
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What word refers to the exploration of a patient’s dreams to discover their true feelings?
Dream Analysis
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What word refers to the treatment of a therapist as a close person to the patient? (Done to reveal how they truly feel about the person)
Transference
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What is the name if the test where the patient is told to interpret ink blots to reveal their emotional state?
Rorschach Test
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What therapy is based on how we think and how that affects how we feel?
Cognitive Therapy
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What is the goal of cognitive therapy?
To interrupt cognitive distortions
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What can help patients think more positively?
Imagery
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What kind of therapy exposes patients to a trigger to build tolerance for the trigger?
Exposure Therapy
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What kind of therapy teaches a patient to associate an unhealthy behavior with an unpleasant one?
Aversion Therapy
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Name a famous example of aversion therapy (Meant to “cure” LGBTQIA+ individuals)
Conversion Therapy
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