Psychology

Scientific study of behavior and mental process

Which type of psychologist diagnoses and treats mental

health disorders?

Clinical psychologist

Which type of study is where people are observed in their environment

Natuyralistic observation

Which type of study focuses on a small group and studies them in depth

Case study

Which method is used to establish cause and effect?

Nature and nurture

What did the Harlow studies show?

Attachments were formed with the cloth mother because contact comfort is important to development.

Which parenting style lets their children make their own decisions and rarely does anything with tha kids?

Uninvolved

Which parent style helps foster independence,

good self-esteem and archievement motivation?

Authoritative

What are the characteristics of eens that are close to

their parent?

Greater self-reliance

more conficdence

Circadian rhythm

a cycle of functioning on a 24 hour cycle related to the

earth's rotation

Characteritics of short-term stress/eustress

helps with

• resilience later in life

• motivates

• mobilizes our immune system

Functions of sleep

Rejuvenates the body

helps consolidate learning

allows our brain to rest

Most dangerous sleep disorder

Apnea

Problems with not nough sleep

• Poor concentration
• irritability
• suppression of the immune system

Little ASlbert fear of white of white rate

conditioned responce

Stopping something you have been doing

extinction

Giving to the child when they are crying

Positive reinforcement

Bandura believed in the importance of

Modeling

Mdeia vi0olence and  young children

• less sensivity to violence
• more agressive behaviors in the child

Short-term memory can hold how many bits of information?

7 ± 2

remembering every detail about an event

flash bulb memory

greater the emotion

greater the memory

temporarily forgetting a person's name is

retrieval issues

spacing effect

studying something over a long period of time

adoption studies concerning intelligence

similar in twins when reared apart, and have very little differences between twins

second language is best learned in

childhood

intelligence

• ability to learn from experience
• solve problems
• use knowledge to adapt to new situations

multiple intelligence

many area of intelligence:

• bodily knesthetic
• music
• interpersonal

etc

Maslow hierarchy of needs

• first basic needs need to be met before other needs
• needs are based on a pyramid
• few people reach the top of self-actualization

Anorexia Nervosa

• restrict food
• thin
• excersises frequency
• young teens
• dangerous

Bulimia Nervosa

• later teen to early 20's
• gorges on food
• purges

Homosexuality research

• differences in the hypothalamus
• hundreds of species show the behavior
• strong correlation in twins

Vulnerable to disease

• recently widowed
• fired from a job
• divorces in the past year

Type of behavior characterized by being relaxed and easy going

Type B

Type of personality that has the most heart issues

Type A

The component of type A that puts the person at risk for developing heart disease

Hostility and anger

Personality perspective that focus on the unconscious

Psychoanalytic

Personality perspective that focus on being shaped by the environment

behavioral

personality perspective that focus on humans reaching their full potential

Humanistic

Personality perspective that focuses on the 5 clusters

Trait

Ellis believed we create our own stress by

Irrational beliefs

Order of general adaption syndrome

• alarm
• resistance
• exhaustion

Carl Rogers believed your environment had to have 3 things for you to reach your full potential

• genuiness
• acceptance
• empathy

Current edition of the diagnostic statistical manual

DSM IV  TR

3 D's of mental health illness

• Deviant
• Distressful
• Dysfunctional

Schizophrenia positive experience

Delusions and hallucinations

Bipolar disorder has 2 polar ends

depression and manic stage

Antisocial charcteristics

• Lack empathy
• have history of delinquent behavior
• are implusive

Obsessions are

recurrent and persistent thoughts not in their control

Percent of people that will meet the criteria for a mental health disorder sometimes in their life time

50%

Women are most likely to be diagnosed with

depression more than men