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32 Cards in this Set
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what is Hassle's scale and what is the greatest stress college students have |
measures stress levels
troubling thoughts about the future |
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what is the social adjustment rating scale? what does it give us? what does it revel? |
measures stress ranks 43 life events from most to least stressful assigne a point value calculates your life stress score attempts to predict future health problems |
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criteria for PTSD |
flashbacks, nightmares, re-experience traumatic event. cognitive difficulties of poor concentration |
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workplace stres for woman |
sex discrimination, sexual harassment, family responsibilities |
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who was the 1st main researcher who researched about stress on the body |
Hans Selye |
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How does generalized adaptation syndrome work? |
1) alarm stage: adrenal cortex releases glucocorticoids that increase heart rate, blood pressure, sugar levels 2) resistance: continue release 3) exhaustion: if organism fails to resist, all stores of deep energy are depleted, and disintegration and death follow |
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what is gustatory delight? |
something that taste good |
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what is the relationship between sensation and perception |
sensation: visual, auditory and sensory transmit to brain. perception: brain organizes and interprets sensory info. |
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what is the sense that refers to the movement and position of the body parts. |
kinesthetic sense |
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why do woman have more pain tolerance |
estrogen sensitizes the neurons to endorphins. |
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what is an illusion |
false perception of actual stimulus |
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what is the mental process of acquiring, storing, receiving, and using info |
cognition |
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what does the concept of confirmation bias assume? |
we are most likely to believe info that agrees with out info |
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robert sternberg, which type if intel is least likely to predict academic success |
Practical intel |
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girl>boy in school |
more effortful to work, develop more learning strategies. more self-disciplined |
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what are the two components of emotional intelligence |
personal and interpersonal |
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what are the learning traits of creative individuals |
expertise in specific area open to experiences and ideas curiosity and inquisitive nature independent thinkers less influenced by opinion of others |
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how does classical conditioning work? |
organism learns to associate one stimulus with another (dog and saliva)
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watsons term "generalization" |
response begins to occur in the presence of similar stimuli. |
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classical conditioning affect eating habits? |
eat when not hungry. stimuli associated with food, initiates eating behavior |
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what is meant by process of shaping? |
rewarding for desired behavior (sheldon- big bang theory) |
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according to segalman, why stay in abusive relationship? |
helplessness |
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hardware? software? |
brain structures learned memory strategies
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what is the process of transforming information to be stored in the memory system? |
encoding |
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when does consolidation occur? |
after encoding but before storage in the memory process |
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what is the act of repeating info for short term memory called? |
rehearsal |
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what is the acting process of avoiding unpleasant memory |
suppresssion |
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for memory, problem with cramming |
not adequate amount of time for brain to store memories. cause problems with retrieval come time of exam. |
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Classical Conditioning: ex:
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a type of learning through which an organism learns to associate one stimulus with another. ex: you eat a new food and get sick cuz of flu. now you dislike that food. (feel nauseous when smell it) |
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operant conditioning: 4 types |
shaping behavior to increase or decrease the likelihood of a behavior as a result of consequences Positive reinforcement/punishment Negative reinforcement/punishment
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positive RE: negative RE:
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+re: increase in behavior that added consequence: rat learns to press lever to get obtain food -re: subtraction of something that is typically unpleasant: rat learns to press a lever that turns off an annoying stimulus such as a buzzer |
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positive PU: negative PU: |
+PU: behavior decreases after the addition of a consequence: rat stops pressing lever, when doing so causes a buzz -PU: behavior decreases after the removal of a consequence: rat stop pressing lever, when doing so food disappears |
