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| (back of card)Sensory Memory |
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| (front of card)Refers to the initial momentary storage of information that lasts only an instant. |
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| (back of card)Belief Bias |
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| (front of card)Preexisting beliefs to distant logical reasoning sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid or vice versa. |
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| (front of card)The mental activities associated with thinking,knowing,remembering and communitcating. |
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| (back of card)Levels of processing |
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| Emphasizes the degree to which new material is mentally analyzed. |
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| (front of card)The communication of info through symbols arranged according to systematic. |
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| (back of card)Functional Fixedness |
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| (front of card)The tendency to think of an object only in terms of its typical use. |
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| (front of card)The communication of info through symbols arranged according to sytematic rules. |
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| (back of card)Levels of processing |
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| (front of card)Emphasizes the degree to which new material is mentally analyzed. |
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| (back of card)Short term memory |
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| (front of card)Holds info for 15-25 seconds and stores it according to meaning. |
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| (front of card)A meaningful group of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in short term memory. |
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| (front of card)A specific piece of info that must be retrieved. |
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| (back of card)Long term memory |
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| (front of card)Information stored on a permanent basis although it may be hard to retrieve. |
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| (front of card)The manipulation of mental representations of information. |
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| (back of card)Mental Images |
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| (front of card)Representations in the mind of an object. |
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| (front of card)Categorizations of objects events of people that share common properities. |
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| (front of card)The factors that direct and energize the behavior of humans. |
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| (back of card)Hypothalamus |
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| (front of card)is an area of the brain that produces hormones that control: Body temperature; Hunger; Moods; |
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| (front of card)This approach suggest that motivation stems form desire to obtain valued external goals. |
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| (back of card)Cannon-Bard theory of emotion |
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| (front of card)This theory suggests that both physiological arousal and emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus. |
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| (back of card)James-Lange theory of emotion |
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| (front of card)This theory states that emotions are a response to instinctive bodily events. |
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| (back of card)Schachter-Singer theory of emotion |
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| (front of card)This theory states that we identify the emotion we are experiencing by observing our environment and comparing ourselves with others. |
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| (front of card)Body weight that is more than 20 percent above the average weight for a person of a particular height. |
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| (front of card)Broadly defined as feelings that may affect behavior and generally have both a physiological component and a cognitive component |
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| (front of card)A disorder in which a person binges and then purges. |
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| (front of card)A motivational tension or arousal,that energizes behavior to fulfil a need. |
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| (back of card)Self-actualization |
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| (front of card)A state of self-fulfillment in which people realize their highest potentials each in his or her own unique way. |
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| (Front of card)The rate at which food is converted to energy and expended by the body. |
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| (back of card)Homeostasis |
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| (front of card)The body's tendency to maintain a steady internal state. |
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| (front of card)Inborn patterns of behavior that are biologic rather than learned. |
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| (front of card)Particular level of weight that that the body strives to maintain which in turn regulates food intake. |
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| (back of card)Longitudinal Research |
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| (front of card)traces the behavior of one or more participants as the participants become older. |
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| (front of card)The period at which maturation of the sexual organs occurs . |
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| (front of card)Smaller units through which genetic information is transmitted. |
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| (front of card)The positive emotional bond that develops between and a particular individual. |
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| (back of card)Life review |
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| (front of card)When you examine and evaluate your life. |
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| (back of card)Alzheimer's |
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| (Front of card)A progressive brain disorder that leads to a gradual and irreversible decline in cognitive abilities. |
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| (front of card)Parents who give their children relaxed or inconsistent direction and although they are warm require little of them. |
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| (front of card)The period during which women stop menstruating and are no longer fertile. |
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| (front of card)In this stage people resist the idea that they are dying. |
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| (front of card)After moving behind the denial stage dying people become angry. |
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| (front of card)In this page people accept impending death. |
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| (back of card)Authoritarian |
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| (front of card)Parents who are rigid and punative. and value unquestioning obedience from their children. |
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| (back of card)Cross Sectional Research |
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| (front of card)A research method that compares people of different ages at the same point in time. |
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| (front of card)The new cell formed by the union of an egg and sperm. |
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| (back of card)Temperament |
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| (front of card)The basic innate disposition that emerges early in life. |
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| (back of card)Culture Fair |
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| (front of card)Testing that does not discriminate aganist members of any minority group. |
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| (back of card)Psychodynamic Approaches to Personality |
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| (front of card)Approaches that assume that personality is motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which people have little awareness and over which they have no control. |
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| (back of card)Self-esteem |
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| (front of card)The component of personality that encompasses our positive and negative self evaluations. |
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| (back of card)Intelligence |
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| (front of card)The capacity to understand the world think rationally and use resources effectively when faced with challenges. |
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| (front of card)Test in which person is shown an unclear stimilus and asked to describe it. |
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| (back of card)Defense Mechanisms |
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| (front of card)In Freudian theory unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by concealing the source of the anxiety from themselves and others. |
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| (front of card)A test is said to be be valid if it measures what it was designed to measure. |
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| (back of card)Inferiority complex |
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| (front of card)Adler used this term to describe situations in which adults have not been able to overcome the feelings of inferiority as children when they were small and limited in their knowledge about the world. |
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| (back of card)Extraversion |
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| (front of card)Talkative,Fun loving,sociable |
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| (front of card)Quiet, Sobering,retiring |
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| (front of cards)Consistent personality characteristics and behaviors displayed in differnt situations. |
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| (back of card)Personality |
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| (front of card)The pattern of enduring characteristics traits distinctive that produce consistency and individuality in a given person. |
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| (front of card)The primary defense mechanism in which unaaceptable or unpleasant id impulses are pushed back into the unconscious. |
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| (back of card)Reliability |
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| (front of card)A test is said to lack this if it is given to to the same group or person. |
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| (front of card)A set of generalized beliefs and expectations about a particuar group and its members. |
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| (front of card)The intentional injury of or harm to another person. |
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| (back of card)Learned helplessness |
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| (front of card)A state in which people conclude that that unpleasant or aversive stimuli cannot be controlled. |
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| (back of card)Discrimination |
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| (front of card)Behavior directed toward idividuals on the basis of their membership in a particular group. |
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| ((back of card)Passionate love |
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| (front of card)A state on intense absorption in someone. |
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| (back of card)Cognitive dissonance |
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| (front of card)The conflict that occurs when a person holds two contradictory attitudes or thoughts. |
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| (front of card)Helping others that is beneficial to others but clearly requires self sacrifice. |
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| (front of card}A changein behavior or attitudes brought about by desire to follow the beliefs or standards of other people. |
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| (back of card)Post-traumtic stress disorder |
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| (front of card)A phenomeneon in which victims of major catastrophes or strong personal stressors feel long lasting effect may include re-experiencing the event in vivid flashbacks or dreams. |
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| (front of card)A person's response to events that are threatining or challenging. |
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| (front of card)A change in behavior in response to the commands of others. |
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| (front of card)A negative or positive evaluation of a particular group and its members. |
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| (front of card)Organized bodies of information stored in memory that bias the way new info is interpreted ,stored and recalled:sets of thoughts about people and social experiences. |
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| (front of card)Evaluations of a particular persons,behavior,belief or concepts. |
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| (front of card)Th efforts to control reduce or learn to tolerate the threats that lead to stress. |
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