Psych 101 ch 5-7 Flash Cards

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Title: Psych 101 ch 5-7
Description: entry psych
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Created: 2011-12-07
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    • Side 3
    • what is it to be conscious
    • to be aware of external and internal stimuli
    • how is consciousness measured
    • through EEG
      stage 1: theta waves: light sleep
      2: thata waves: light sleep
      3: slow wave sleep: deep sleep
      4: delta waves: very deep
      5 alpha and beta: REM
    • cycles of stages in sleep
    • repeat 4-5 times
      REM starts off slow and gets progressively longer
    • theories of sleep?
    • energy conservation
      protection against predators
      restores bodily resources
      *multipurposed
    • what are 5 sleep disorders
    • insomnia: difficulty falling and remaing asleep
      narcolepsy: sudden onsets of sleep
      sleep apnea: frequent gasping for air that wakes person up
      hypersonia: excessive sleepiness
      somnambulism: sleepwalking
    • theories of dreams? (names too)
    • Freud: wish fufillment
      cartwright: work through problems
      hobson: activation synthesis
    • what is hypnosis? what is ts characteristics?
    • roleplaying: people pretend to be in another state
      altered state of conciousness: split mental into the processes (devided conciousness
    • meditation
    • train to heighten awareness, alpha and theta waves increase
    • what are the 2 types of drug dependance
    • physical: take drug to avoid withdrawal illness
      psychological: take drug to satisfy mental and emotional craving
      all drugs increase DA activity
    • narcotics: effects, med usage
    • euphoria and relaxation.
      opiate family
      ex. morphine, heroin
    • sedatives: effects, med usage
    • sleep inducing drugs
      barbituates
      effects: euphoria, relaxation
    • stimulants:effects, med usage
    • drugs that increase central nervous system activation and behavioral activity
      ex. cocaine, caffeine
    • Clasical conditioning?
      - components
      - pavlov
      - acquisition
    • type of learning in which stimulus evokes response that originally evoked by another
      US --> UR
      CS --> CR
      short delayed presentation is best
    • what is operant conditioning?
      - shaping
    • response is followed by reinforcement or punishment
      shaping is full change over time.
      Skinner train animals
    • what are the schedule of reinforcemtents
    • Fixed ratio
      variable ratio
      fixed interval
      variable interval
    • latent learning?
      rescoria
      tolman
    • learning that isn't apparent from behavior when it occurs
      tolman and rat maze with 10th time reward
      rescoria= rats getting shocked
    • higher order conditoning?
    • CS functions as a UCS
    • major factors of encoding
    • attention
      levels of processing:
      stuctural
      phonetic
      semantic

      elaboration- linking stimulus to something else

      visual imagery
      dual coding theory
    • types of memory
    • sensory= .25 seconds, large capacity

      short term/working= 10-20 sec. capacity 7 +/- 2

      long term: unlimited, indefinete duration, flashbulb memories

      declarative= explicit info
      procedural: action, skill, implicit
    • how are shemas used to organize info?
    • organized cluster of knowledge about an object
    • anterograde vs retrograde amnesia
    • antereograde: cant remember after surgery

      retrograde: can't remember before the surgery
    • who is HM and why is he important?
    • had severy epilepsy and after surgery his long term memory was ruined
      had antero amnesia
      medial temporal lobe was affected
    • forgetting:
      how do we measure it?
      why do people forget?
    • recall
      recognigiton
      relearning

      encoding specificity principle
    • cephalocaudal
      proximodistal
    • cephalocaudal: head to foot direction of motor development

      proximodistal: center-outward direction of motor development
    • emotional development
    • 2-3 months: smile + laugh
      7 months: fear + stranger anxiety
    • attachment styles
    • secure: play, upset when leaves, happy when returns
      resistant: upset even when she returns
      avoidant: aren't stressed when mom leaves/returns
    • jean piaget cognitive theory
    • sensory motor- lack of object permanence

      preoperational- concrete irrevesibility, egocentrism, lack of conservation

      concrete operationa: masters conservation

      foraml operational: mental abstract ideas
    • kygotsky socialcultural theory
    • social interaction is important
      influence cognitive development abilities
      language is important
    • kohlbergs stage theory
    • moral development theory
      preconventional- actos of authority
      conventional- determine what is right and wrong
      postconventional- based on societies justice system
    • mischel and buss views of personality
    • mischel: no, personality is based on the situation

      buss: yes, adaptive, crucial for attracting mates
    • the big 5
    • Openness
      Conscientiousness
      Extraversion
      Agreeableness
      Neuroticism
    • Frued and personality
    • sturcture divided into:
      ID: instinct
      Ego: decision making
      Superego: moral
    • Freud defense mechanisms
    • repression
      regression
      projection
      displacement
      sublimiation
    • adler and personality
    • superiority is primary motivation
      inferiority complex
    • erik erikson and personality
    • 8 stage theory, psychosocial, personality develops and changes over time
    • humanistic and personality (maslow)
    • hierarchy of needs: physiological, survival, affillation, achievement, knowledge, order, realization.
    • humanistic and personality (carl rogers and self person centered theory)
    • everyone has a subjective selfconcept
      if self doesnt equal reality it is an incongruence and causes stress
    • behaviorism: skinner and bandura
    • skinner: focused on observable theory

      bandura: observational learning, emphasized self efficacy
    • biological: hans eysenck
    • Psychoticism
      Extraversion
      Neuroticism
    • criteria for abnormal behavior
    • devieance, dysfunction, distress
    • DSM-IV-TR and 5 axes
    • apa published diagnostic manual

      I: clinical syndromes
      II: more permanent discases
      III: physical problems
      IV: environmental issues
      V: 1-100
    • anxiety disorders
      subtypes:
      - symptoms, features, etiology
    • generalized anxiety
      phobic
      panic
      ocd
      post traumatic

      associative features: 2/3 females
    • somatoform disorders
      subtypes:
      - symptoms, features, etiology
    • body issues due to psyhological factors
      somatization: diverse physical complaint
      conversion: loss of function in organ
      hypochondriasis: preoccupation of getting sick
    • dissociative disorders
      subtypes:
      - symptoms, features, etiology
    • separation of conciousness and memory
      dissociative amnesia: sudden loss of memory extensive personal info
      dissociative fugue: lose memory of entire live and sense of identity
      identity disorder: coexistence of one person/multiple personalities
    • mood disorders
      subtypes:
      - symptoms, features, etiology
    • major depressive disorders: sadness, weight loss, faigue
      bipolar disorder: manic depressive disorder, euphoria

      features: depression: more females

      bipolar: no diff
    • schizophrenia
      subtypes:
      - symptoms, features, etiology
    • delusions, hallucination, disorganized speech(positive)
      flattening, alogia, avolition (negative)

      - paranoid
      - catatonic: disturbed stupor + excite
      - disorganized
      - Undifferentiated
    • stemberg vs hatfield and berscheid
    • hatfield and bersheld: two types of love: passionate and companionate

      stemberg: love has 3 facets:
      pasionate, companionate (intimacy, commitment)
    • attributions: types and biases
    • inferences that people draw about causes of events
      internal: personal disposition
      external: external cause
    • fundamental attribution error:
    • observer bias in favor of internal
    • self-serving bias
    • attribute ones succes to internal and failure to external
    • confirmation bias
    • tendency to look for examples that support our POV
    • illusory correlation:
    • people estimate they've encountered mor confirmations of an association of social traits than theyve actually seen
    • percieved outgroup homogeneity
    • we have tendency to see those outside of our group as being more simlar to each other shile we notice differences with in our group
    • cognative schemas:
    • cluster of ideas:
      stereotypes
      prejudice
      discrimination
    • what factors plya role in forming impressions
    • physical appearance: talle, normal weight, good posture, well dressed, good eye contact
    • factors with increasing love
    • physical attractiveness
      simularity (age, race, religion, education)
      reciprocity effect- you like me i liky you
    • is romantic love necesary
    • pasionate love = western countires

      triangle of ( intimacy, passion, commitment)
    • persuasion:
      festinger
      central v peripheral insights
    • credibilty, trustworthyness, likabilkty
      message: two sided argument
      reciever: initial attitude

      festinger: dissonancer theory cog. dissonance leads to attitude change
      - contradicting leads to uncomfort --> change in attitude

      1$ vs 20$ experiment
    • elaboration likelihood model
    • two routes to persuation
      central: people pnder about message (more durable)
      peripheral: depends on nonmessage factors
    • what is an attitude why is it helpful
    • positive or negative evaluations of abjects of thought
      3 components: cognitive, affective, behavioral

      formed through learning
    • conformity and asch
    • people yield to real or imagined social pressure

      asch: had different sized lines and you had to pick the right one... 37% conformed

      groupsize and group unanimity = important
    • obedience and milgram
    • people follow direct commands from someone in authority

      mulgram: electric box experiment, 26/40 administered 30 levels of shock
    • zimbardo's stanford prison simulation
    • 24 students separated into guards and prisoners
      prisoners were taunted and humiliated

      social roles are shared expectations of how people are supposed to behave
      behavior due to power of situational factors
    • bystander effect
    • people less likely to provide help when in a group setting vs. alone
    • social loafing
    • reduction in effect when working in groups vs compared to vorking alone
    • group think
    • group discussion stengthens dominant poin of view and produces shift towards something more extreme
    • group polarization
    • members emphasize concurrence at the expense of critical thinking

      mindguard, direct pressure, group cohesiveness