Memory | Developmental Psychology | Social Psychology | MISC | Misc. |
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What is the Hippocampus?
This processes explicit memories for facts and episodes. It is a neural center in the Limbic System.
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What is Pre-Conventional?
Before age 9, most children have this morality of self-interest.
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What is Normative Social Influence?
The influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or disapproval within a group.
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What is learning?
The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behavior.
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Who is Stanley Milgram?
This psychologist was best known for his experiments concerning the ability to shock someone else and obedience.
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What is Long-term memory?
In unconscious processing, external events go straight into _______.
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What is Infantile amnesia?
Infants can't remember the first three years of their life because of this.
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What are beliefs, emotions, and predispositions to actions?
The three components of prejudice.
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What are oral, anal, phallic, genital, latency?
The psychosexual stages of development.
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What is schizophrenia?
This mental disorder has three major types: paranoid, disorganized, and catatonic.
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What is a flashbulb memory?
This is a clear memory of an emotionally significant memory or event.
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What is adolescence?
This is the transition period from childhood to adulthood extending from puberty to independence.
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What is The Fundamental Attribution Error?
An example of this would be thinking that someone is stupid after they get in a car crash.
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What are Descriptive, Correlational, and Experimental?
These are the three categories of research.
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What is a correlation coefficient?
This variable is represented by r and measures the strength of a correlation.
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What is working/short-term memory?
This type of memory has a conscious active processing with incoming auditory and visual-spatial information.
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What is object permanence?
This is the awareness that things continue to exist even when they are not seen.
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Not committed to beliefs, medium sized group, admiration for group, feeling incompetent, culture respects norms
What are at least three situations that make it more likely for a person to conform?
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What is standard deviation?
This is a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.
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What is group polarization?
This is a phenomenon in which a group that gathers with a certain attitude in the beginning tends to become more extreme as they discuss it.
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what are visual, auditory, and semantic
These are the tree types of encoding.
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What is the serial position effect?
This effect is the tendency to remember the first and last items learned.
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What is the moral model, compensatory model, medical model, and enlightenment model
These are Brickman's model of helping and coping.
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Who is Carl Rogers?
This psychologist developed three factors which affect self actualization: genuineness, acceptance, and empathy.
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What is the foot in the door phenomenon?
This is the tendency to be more likely to agree to a large request after agreeing to a smaller one.
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