new exam questions

Question 1

Memory

Answer 1

Process in which we encode and store information

Question 2

Mood Disorder

Answer 2

Disturbance/emotional experience that intrudes on everyday living

Question 3

Cognitive Psychology

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Study of higher mental processes, such as perception, thinking, language, etc

Question 4

Personality

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Characteristics that compose individuality in a person

Question 5

What do traditional intellegience tests assest

Answer 5

Convergent thinking

Question 6

Life Review

Answer 6

Process of which people evaluate or reconsider their lives

Question 7

Behavioral Economists

Answer 7

Focus on irrationality of judgements

Question 8

Sensory Memory

Answer 8

Initial Stored information of a memory

Question 9

Insights

Answer 9

Sudden awareness of the relationship among problem elements, previously independant

Question 10

Intellegience

Answer 10

Capacity to understand the world, think rationally

Question 11

Associative Identity Disorder

Answer 11

When a character displays two distinct personalities

Question 12

Archetypes

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Universal types of personality, experiences, and archetypes

Question 13

fight or flight reponses activate what

Answer 13

Sympathetic Nerveous System

Question 13

Tip of the tongue Phenomina

Answer 13

Inability to recall info otherwise known

Question 14

Calming Down

Answer 14

Parasympathetic Nerveous System

Question 15

Projective tests of personality

Answer 15

Rashaw Test

Question 16

3 Broad phases of the problem solving

Answer 16

Preperation, Production, Judgement

Question 17

Nature Vs Nurture

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Whether behavior is based on genes (Heredity) or the enviroment (Nuture)

Question 18

Chunking

Answer 18

Breaking down information into short term memory

Question 19

Retrograde Amnesia

Answer 19

Loss of memory before amnesia injury/accident

Question 20

Antigrade Amnesia

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Loss of memory AFTER the injury/accident

Question 21

Passion Component of love

Answer 21

Intense emotional and physical attraction between partners

Question 22

Sex

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Physical Closeness and Romance

Question 23

Freud’s three Personality structures during development

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id -> ego -> superego

Question 24

Order of the stages of parenetal development

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Germinal -> Embreonic -> Fetal

Question 25

Hippocampus

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Part of the brain that consolidates memory

Question 26

Freud says much of our behavior is controlled by the....

Answer 26

Unconscious

Question 27

Sublimation

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Divert an undesirable impulse into a socially approved behavior

Question 28

which big 5 personality traits belongs to extroversion

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Talkative

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Algorithm

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Process that guarantees a solution

Question 30

Social Phobia

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Avoiding Social interactions in general

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Homeostasis

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The body maintaining a steady internal state

Question 32

Medical Perspective on psychological Disorders

Question 33

Prerequisite for being self realized

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having all lower needs in the needs pyramid fulfilled

Question 34

Halo Effect

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Phenomena in which a person trait's is used to inform positive or negative traits

Question 35

Sublimation???

Answer 35

a defense mechanism that redirects unacceptable impulses or emotions into more socially acceptable ones

Question 36

Cognitive Dissonance

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When someone holds two contradictory attitudes/thoughts

Question 37

Central Traits

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Positive traits that make up a personality. Helps people form an initial overall impression of others

Question 38

Developmental Psychology

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Study of the patterns of growth and change throughout life

Question 39

Schizophrenia

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Severe distortion or reality.

Question 40

Biological & evolutionary perspective on personality

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Inheritted

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Anorexia is an ex of

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Eating Disorders

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Prejudice

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Preconceived judgement on a group not based on reality

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Conformity

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Change in attitude or behavior to follow standards of other people

Question 44

Need for Achivement

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Person who feels the need to achive and accomplish

Question 45

Semantic Memory

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General Knowledge and facts about the world

Question 46

Social Influence

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How social groups influence behavior, intentionally and unintentionally

Question 47

Repression

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Thoughts or Consciousness being ignored or burried in the brain

Question 48

Resilience

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Ability to withstand overwhelming factors, can cause psychological harm

Question 49

Socio Cultural Perspective on disorders

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Assume people's behavior is shaped by families, groups, or societey

Question 50

Socio Psychology

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How people fit in and are effected by others

Question 51

Abnormality as a sense of producing personal discomfort

Answer 51

Abnormality defined

Question 52

Altruism

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Behavior meant to help another without regard for self interest