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Define health psychology
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Subfield focused on the psychological factors related to wellness
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Define stress
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the response to (events)that threaten or CHALLENGE a person
Threaten- Negative connotation
Challenge- Positive connotation
ex. Midterms
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Define psychophysiological disorders
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(Body tied to mind)
-when more stressed you do not function properly physically
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Eustress vs. distress
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- Eustress (seen as challenge)
- Distress (Give up, more likely to get sick)
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How is stress related to immune system functioning?
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keeps us healthy, the more stressed the more likely to get sick
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Fight or flight
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response of sympathetic nervous system to a stressful event; fight or flee; involves high heart rate, clammy hands, blood clotting
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General adaptation syndrome (GAS); know significance of each stage.
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-Stage 1: Alarm and mobilize;( becoming aware of a stressor/ recognize)( going back to school from vacation)
-stage 2: Resistant stage (making a plan how to adapt & cope)
-stage 3: Exhaustion Stage (negative consequences of prolonged)
* if you do a good job and cope with stage 1 will not go through stage 3
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Be able to categorize stressors
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- Catastrophes(floods, earthquakes, 6 months traumatized)
- Daily Hassles(traffic, pollution, taking kids to school )
- Major life events (getting married, graduating, having a baby)
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Type A personalities
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-competitive
-urgent about time (traffic jams)
-Aggressive (harmful-bad/ independent- good)
-driven regarding their work
-Hostile both verbally and non verbally
(extreme rate of heart disease)
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Type B personalities
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-more cooperative
-far less competitive
-not especially time-oriented
-not usually aggressive, driven, or hostile
(not productive, not high quality of life)
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Coping
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the efforts to control, reduce, or learn to tolerate stressors
- Emotion focused coping
- Problem focused coping
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Emotion focused vs. problem focused coping.
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- Emotion- Method of Managing Emotions to change the way one feels or perceives a problem (ex. being happy for some ones loss and excepting that they are in a better place)
- Problem-attempts to modify the stressful problem
(proactive: sit down and modify)
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Significance of social support?
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child care for parents, people who help you and you benefit
(allow you to express yourself)
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What is invisible support?
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when someone ask how can i help
(ppl who care about you ask you because they’re not going to wait for you to ask)
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Define behaviorism
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-Objectivity of Overt behavior
(the way we act toward society)
overt- shows feelings (does not care what others think)
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Define conditioning
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the processes by which responses become linked to particular stimuli
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Define associative learning
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paring- (ex. running a red light w/ getting a ticket),
- learning that certain events occur together
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Psych definition of learning
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change in behavior due to experience
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primary theory/research: Watson
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- behaviorism
- trained little Albert to to fear white, soft things (white rats w/ loud noise)
- Associative learning
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primary theory/research: Thorndike
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- Law of Effect
- responses associated w/ satisfaction MORE likely to do again (reoccur)
- responses associated w/ discomfort LESS likely to do again (not reoccur)
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primary theory/research:Pavlov
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(Russian Physiologist)
Both occur naturally
-UCS- food is a unconditioned stimulus
-UCR- salivating is an unconditioned response
Both are conditioned
CS- bell is conditioned stimulus, as food
CR- salivation to the bell is a conditioned response
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primary theory/research:Bandura
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Social Learning
- Modeling and imitation
- Antisocial- inappropriate behaviors (bby saying bad words)
- pro social- appropriate behaviors (saying please and thank you)
ex. Bobo doll experiment
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Who was Little Albert and what relevance does he have to psychology?
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- Watson
- little baby that was trained to associate white rats w/ loud noises (overt/ expressed behaviors)
- change in behavior due to experience
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Classical conditioning-
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A type of learning in which one learns to link two or more stimuli and anticipate events(Ivan Pavlo)
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Define Classical conditioning terms, and be able to distinguish each in the dog experiment and other examples. Who created this experiment?
-(UCS) Unconditioned Stimuli- Food elicits response naturally
-(UCR) Unconditioned Response-Salivation response occurs naturally
-(CS) Conditioned Stimuli- Trained to hear the bell & think food
-(CR) Conditioned Response- produced salivation
\*stimulus- can be changed, reaction- stays the same
(created by Pavlo)
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What are some real life applications of classical conditioning?
hearing loud thunder, and jumping
UCS- loud noise of thunder
UCR- jumping in response to loud noise
CS- lightning with loud noise
CR- jumping to lightning bolt
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OPERANT CONDITIONING - definition
A type of learning in which associations are formed between two stimuli that occur sequentially in time; shaping/guiding a natural behavior toward a desired behavior
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Main principle of Thorndike's law of effect.
-a response is more likely to reoccur when associated w/ satisfaction, & is less likely to occur when associated with discomfort
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Box - operant chamber - what could it do?)
Skinner invented the box
- helped develop his theory
- A behavior is instrumental in producing a reinforcement, or avoiding a punishment
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Who is Sniffy?
The rat of Skinner's Box chamber experiment
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operant conditioning principles:
-shaping
-reinforcement (positive/negative- behavior increases)
positive -desired stimulus is applied (given snack)
negative- undesired stimulus removed (no more chores)
-Punishment(positive/negative- behavior decreases)
positive- undesired stimuli applied(time out)
negative-desired stimuli taken away (cell phone token away)
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What Skinner wanted operant conditioning to be used for
(improvement of humankind)
study behavior
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Social learning
- created by Albert Bandura
| (Bobo experiment)
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aggression with bobo
- Any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy.
- mimic
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principles of modeling & imitation
- Antisocial- inappropriate behavior (toddler saying bad wors)
- Pro-social- appropriate behaviors (saying please & thank you)
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Do we imitate both antisocial and pro-social behaviors according to Bandura?
yes, we imitate both
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Definition & purpose of motivation:
- a need, a desire, an interest
- energizes & maintains behavior
- Directs behavior toward a goal
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What is Homeostasis?
Physiological balance; satiation(cycle)-happens all over again
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Drive reduction theory
What does that theory not explain?
-1st- drive: Arousal caused by survival needs
-2nd-Motivation act: Determined to reduce need
-3rd-Consummatory response: Fulfilling need & reducing drive
-4th-Homeostasis:state of being healthy & balanced
-5th-Deprivation:reduction of biological needs
-6th-Need: something to satisfy body imbalance
(process begins again)
\*Doesn't explain needs from wants
(regular toilet seat/ golden toilet seat)
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Maslow's hierarchy of needs - motivators at each level; order of the hierarchy.
1st- Self Actualization: Authenticity, helping others,meaningfulness, playfulness
2nd- Self-Esteem: describing success the way society does
3rd- Love & Belongingness:
4th- Safety & Security:
5th-Physiological Needs: Air, Water, Food, Shelter, sleep, sex
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Which perspective of psychology was Maslow's focus?
Humanistic Psychology
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What is humanistic psychology?
- stresses a POSITIVE view of human nature & the strong belief in psychological homeostasis
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Psychological homeostasis and what it means to say some needs take precedence over others
certain needs are way more important than others
| (ex. really hungry but have class @ 10, ur going to go eat cause its way more important)
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Know differences between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation
- Intrinsic-(comes within self) when you love doing something and get a sense of satisfaction from it.(playing hand ball)
- Extrinsic-(comes from others),awarded to do something, badges, competition, fear of failure (Exercise you lose weight)
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Three components of emotion
William James
- Physiological arousal (often indistinguishable- bodily reactions are the same when Angry, Mad, or Sad )
- Expressive Behavior (laughing, crying)
- Conscious Experience (Knowing how you actually feel happy, sad, or mad)
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Importance of universal facial expressions
we need to be able to understand an individuals emotions to comfort or stay away
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Why is a computer used as the analogy of human information processing?
- Encoding (info. processed) Acquisition
- Storage retention (stores info)
- retrial (retrieve when needed)
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What subfield of psychology is memory studied under?
Cognitive Psychology
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Acquisition
encoding (processed)
- Automatic Processing
- Effortful Processing
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Automatic processing
(ex. knowing how to get home, knowing where you parked your car)
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Effortful processing
\*Rehearsal (practice/ study)
\*Spacing effect (Space out learning, 10 min a day)
-Serial position effect (the things we remember are at the beginning and end not so much the middle, list of words)
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What is the importance of meaningfulness?
Retention(storage)
-make what you are learning familiar to something you have heared and seen many times
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How does imagery affect memory?
Retention(storage)
when we think of the concept we tend to associate it with a image so we can recall it easier
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Mnemonics -
Mental Memory Aids (Retrieval)
- Chunking-divide (something) into chunks
- Rhymes
- Acronyms- ex."PEMDAS"
- Acrostics-ex. Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
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What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin three-stage processing model?
- Sensory Memory(iconic/echoic)
- Short-term memory
- Long-term memory(essentially unlimited)
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What is sensory memory
- iconic: Visual sense (eye)
- echoic: sound sense (sound)
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What is the capacity (time and amount) of short-term memory, of long-term memory?
- Short Term- (last only seconds/ remember 7 items)
- Long Term- (essentially unlimited/ retrieval )
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retrieval:
- Recall
- Recognition
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recall vs. recognition.
- recall:Given a question and have to recall answer
- recognition: Read and recognize
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Be able to discuss explanations of forgetting:
- Encoding failure- if we don't process we wont remember
- storage decay- Things we don't need to remember tend to forget (ex. professor's names)
- Retrieval failure- study & when it come to test blank out
- Interference-"stroop effect", read colors & say color of words
- Tip-of-the-tongue-is also interference, know letters, sounds.
- False memory-apparent recollection of an event that did not actually occur
- Infantile Amnesia-Do not remember events from age 4
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What is cognitive psychology?
(How we think)
- Solve Problems
- Make Decisions
- Remember
- Learn &use language
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"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Matthew 7:7
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What is intelligence?
being able to adapt to situations
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Uni-dimensional vs. multidimensional
- Uni-dimensional (one aspect)
- Multidimensional ( multi. aspect)
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Howard Gardner's theory
(Theory of multiple intelligence)
- Verbal-Linguistic:learning w/ words,reading, listening,speaking..
- Mathematical-Logical:Learning w/ problem solving, numbers
- Musical: learning through songs, patterns, rhythms
- Visual-Spatial:learning w/ visual and organizing ideas (Mechan.)
- Bodily/ kinesthetic: Learning through interaction w/ environment
- Intrapersonal: working by yourself, feelings, values, attitudes
- Interpersonal: Working in a group, with others
- Naturalist: Learning through classifications
- Existential: (spiritual) learning by seeing big picture
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Does the language we use affect our thoughts (linguistic relativity)?
Yes, language we use influences how we think
| (ex. create image of a judge, everyone has different image)
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Natural selection
Introduced by Charles Darwin in " The origin of Species"in (1859)
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Evolutionary psychology
The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection.
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DNA
(Deoxiribose Nucleic Acid)
- your blue print
- two long twisted strands that contain genetic info
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genes
A segment of DNA
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chromosomes
- genes are organized and packaged in chromosomes
- 23 chromosomes from each parent total of 46
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Human genome
an international study of the entire human genetic material
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Genotype / phenotype
- Genotype: Genetic makeup/ blue print
- Phenotype:physical & physiological make-up(short, infertality)
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Zygote
A fertilized egg
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monozygotic-Identical twins
- one egg fertilized by single sperm, split into 2
- share all genes
- same sex
- more similar than fraternal twins
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Di-zygotic-fraternal Twins
- separate eggs fertilized by separate sperm
- share only about half their genes
- gender differences
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Heritability
Genetic Component
| (differences, intelligence, personality )
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Artificial selection
A technique in which a breeder selects particular traits; can cause divergent evolution to occur
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Species - typical behavior
Common expected behaviors shared by members of species
| (ex. matting patterns)
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Parental investment
How each sex tens to behave
| (ex. mom- caregiver, dad- procider)
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Sex -
.biological classification
XX Woman
XY Man
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Gender
A set of behaviors that define individuals as boy/men or girl/ woman(Socially prescribed)
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Primary sex characteristics
(important to reproduce)
- Gonads& internal sex organs
(ex. ovaries, testies)
- External Genitalia
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Secondary sex characteristics
- Hormones
- Testosterone
- Gender identity
- Intersex
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Hormones
characteristics
| (ex, height, breast, hips,mustache)
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Gender identity
What you perceive your self as
| (ex. i believe i am to aggressive)
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Intersex
-baby with a ambiguous genetail
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Gender typing/ Gender typed
-Stereotyping/ expectations of an individual
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Androgyny
-no stereotyping
-very neutral
(let individual pick personality)
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Theories of gender development: Social learning, Gender schema
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Gender roles in society
Expectation of society
| (ex. mom to stay home and watch kids, while dad is providing)
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Gender stereotype
if dad is the caregiver then he is critizized
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Sexual orientation
- refers to an enduring sexual attraction toward members of your own sex
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