Memory (Unit 6) Developmental Psychology (unit 7) Social Psychology (Unit 8) Misc Misc
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What are flashbulb memories?
These types of memories are "burned in" through experiencing emotionally intense events.
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Who is Lev Vygotsky?
The psychologist whose theories on social development and attachment differ from those of Piaget.
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What is cognitive dissonance?
The phenomena in which our actions are not in harmony with our attitudes.
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What is stranger anxiety?
This is when children develop a fear of unknown persons.
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What is the Oedipus complex or the Electra complex(girls)
This is the term used to describe when a boy accumulates sexual desired for their mother and jealousy and hatred towards their father
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What is the Primacy Effect?
Information occurring first is generally remembered better (like in lists).
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What are teratogens?
These viruses and chemicals can affect the development of a fetus.
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What is the fundamental attribution error?
This is the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.
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What is bipolar disorder?
This is a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
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What is a collective unconscious?
This is a common reservoir of images derived from our species' universal experiences.
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What is the hippocampus?
This part of the brain is where explicit memories are encoded.
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What is the 2nd trimester?
In this trimester, 750,000 new neurons grow per minute.
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What is Attitude and Behavior?
Prejudice is to ____ as Discrimination is to ____.
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What are the "Big Five" Personality factors?
Emotional stability, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness are all a part of this theory of analyzing personality.
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What is encoding, storage, and retrieval?
Memory works in these three general stages.
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What is a zygote?
The name of the fertilized egg.
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What is foot in the door phenomenon?
A tendency for people who agree to a small action to comply later with a larger one.
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What is deindividualism?
This is when a person abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group.
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What is short term memory?
Also known as working memory.
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What are teratogens?
These are harmful agents such as certain viruses and drugs
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What is the enlightenment model?
Actors are responsible for problems but not solutions.
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what is fetal alcohol syndrome?
This is marked by small disproportioned head and lifelong brain abnormalities.






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