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Flashcards by Annahi Cantu, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Annahi Cantu
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| Question | Answer |
| What is the definition of Addiction? Examples? | |
| What is Amphetamine? | drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes. |
| What is an Anxiety Disorder? What are the three main disorders? | Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent, anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. ......Generalized anxiety, panic disorder & phobias. |
| What are Barbiturates? What are some examples of it? | Drugs that depress central nervous system activity, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment. |
| What is Correlation as a scientific method? | The extent as to how much to things vary together. Positive -direct relationship (two things increase or decrease together). Negative-inverse relationship ( One increases and one decreases, vice versa) |
| What are Delusions? | False beliefs: persecution or grandeur that may accompany psychotic disorders. |
| What is a Dependent Variable? What is an example? | The factor that is being measured and may change based on manipulation of independent variable. |
| What are Depressants? | drugs (such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates) that reduce (depress) neural activity and slow body functions. |
| What is a description as a scientific method? | -Case studies (in depth analysis) -Naturalistic observations (observing and recording behavior naturally) -Surveys and Interviews (self-reports about behavior and attitude) |
| What is dissociative disorder? | Controversial, rare disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings (multiple personality disorder correlated). |
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What's DSM 5? What does it consist of?
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American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (fifth edition), widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. |
| What are the four big ideas of Psychology? | Critical thinking, The biopsychosocial approach (view from cultural, biological & psychological affect us), Two track mind (dual processing capacity, conscious and unconscious), and Exploring human strengths (understanding). |
| What are hallucinations? What disorders are connected to this? | Sounds, and visuals that aren't real- False perceptions. |
| What is a hallucinogen? What drugs are connected to this? | Psychedelic ("mind-manifesting") drugs such as LSD, that distort perceptions and trigger sensory images in the absence of sensory input. |
| What is hindsight bias? | "I knew it all along phenomenon"- tendency to believe after learning outcome that we could have predicted it. |
| What is an independent variable in an experiment? | This is the group that is being manipulated in the experiment- variable whose effect is being studied. |
| What is Intuition? | person's capacity to obtain or have direct knowledge and/or immediate insight, without observation or reason. It's the "gut feeling" you get. |
| What are mood disorder? Examples? | Depression, bipolar, etc. disorders- neurotransmitters are active during these two . |
| What is NSSI? | Non-Suicidal, self injury: common in adolescents and females.. |
| What is OCD? | Disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts, actions, or both. |
| What is a personality disorder? | An inflexible and enduring behavior pattern that impairs social functioning. |
| What is Population V. Sample? | Sampling is the process of selecting a representative group from the population under study. |
| What is Psychoactive drug? Three major categories? | Chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood. - Depressants, stimulants and hallucinogens. |
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What is a psychological disorder?
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Syndrome marked by a "clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion, regulation, or behavior. |
| What is PTSD? What are causes? | Disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia lingering for weeks or more after incident. |
| What is Schizophrenia? & Types? | Disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression. (Positive & Negative symptoms). Acute and chronic. |
| What is scientific attitude? Three key elements? | The process in which scientists mentally undergo experiments. Curiosity, Skepticism, humility |
| What is a stimulant? Examples? | Drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and cocaine, amphetamines, methamphetamine, ecstasy) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions. |
| Who is Wilhelm Wundt? | Established first Psych laboratory- conducted first experiment "atoms of the mind"- fastest and simplest mental processes. CREATED scientific Psych |
| What is Withdrawal? What is it connected to? | The discomfort and distress that follow ending the use of an addictive drug or behavior- |
| Who is WM James? | Teacher and writer of psychology & taught the first woman (mary whiton) to be president of APA |
| Who was the greek philosopher that initially created the questions regarding the mind (memory, emotions, personality, etc.)? | Aristotle |
| What's cognitive psychology? | experimenting w/how we perceive, think and solve problems. |
| What is psychology? | Science of behavior, and mental processes. |
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What's Cognitive neuroscience?
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Studies the brain activity underlying mental activity. |
| The ______ perspective in psychology focuses on how behavior and thought differ from situation to situation and from culture to culture. | Social-Culture |
| The _____ perspective emphasizes how we learn observable responses. | Behavioral |
| What's the psychodynamic perspective? | How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
| What's nature-nurture issue? | (Controversy) The influence of genes and experience in the development of psychological traits and behaviors. |
| What are experiments as a scientific method? | Purpose is to test hypothesis or theories by manipulating the factors of interest and/or holding constant other factors. |
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What is epigenetics?
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Study of environmental influences on gene expression: Dna & environment interact: in one envior. gene will be expressed, in another, it may be dormant (could determine development of disorder). |
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