PSYCH 1113

What best describes conditioning

A form of associative learning in which the consequences of a behavior change the probability of the behavior occurring

What disorder is said to have the highest mortality rate of any psychosocial disorder?

Anorexia nervosa is said to have the highest mortality rate of any psychological disorder.

_____ is the type of learning that occurs when an organism makes a connection between two events.

Associative learning

What best describes an eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of eating more food in a short period of time than most people would eat and during which the person feels a lack of control over eating however does not engage in purging behaviors?

Binge eating disorder

Name some things hipnosis can and can not do.

CAN - alleviate a variety of pains and discomfort, helpful for treatment of obesity, hypertension, and anxiety, and improve athletic motivation, concentration, and performance CANNOT - be done to people against their will, increase physical capabilities or bestow new talents, or enhance recall of forgotten events

CH 8 What refers to switching attention from one stimulus to another?

Cognitive flexibility

What are the three basic organismic needs under the self-determination theory

Competence Relatedness Autonomy

CH 10 The act of putting off a pleasurable experience in the interest of some larger but later reward is known as

Delay of gratification

What category of psychoactive drugs depress or inhibit brain activity?

Depressants

What best describes when an individual reaches self-actualization according to Maslows hierarchy of needs?

Developing full potential

The property of consciousness known as intentionality refers to what?

Direction toward a specific object

_____ in classical conditioning is the process of learning to respond to certain stimuli and not others.

Discrimination

One day, you were talking to your friend about how you celebrated birthdays when you were younger. You tell your friend about different birthday cakes and the time you had a party at the park. Reminiscing about old times triggers _____ memory

Episodic

What is inattentional blindness?

Failure to see visible objects when attention is directed elsewhere.

According to _____, repression is a mechanism whereby unacceptable thoughts and impulses are pushed back into the unconscious.

Freud

The ability to know and report one's mental state is referred to as ____ consciousness.

Full

Please describe the biopychosocial model of obesity.

Genetic factors Behavior Environment

The ability to ignore distracting information or automatic responses

Inhibitory Control

A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks Is known as what?

Narcolepsy

Ten minutes is deducted from Clayton's recess hour every time he misbehaves in class. In the context of operant conditioning, the teacher is using _____ to discipline Clayton.

Negative punishment

When your brother burned himself playing with matches, he cried for a long time. After this, you learned not to play with matches. What is this an example of?

Observational learning

Name three examples of physiologically induced states of consciousness?

Orgasm Food or oxygen starvation Hallucinations

CH 4 What best describes consciousness?

Persons experiences of the world and mind.

A parent spanked a child for misbehaving, and the misbehavior stopped. By definition, the spanking served as a ________ for the misbehavior.

Positive punishment

What are the three types of implicit memory

Procedural memories, priming, classical conditioning

What type of operant conditioning is more effective according to research?

Reinforcement

Under the social theory we imitate people who we? (Three things)

Resemble Identify with View as successful

____ refers to a person's knowledge about the world, his or her areas of expertise, general knowledge, and everyday knowledge.

Semantic Memory

In the context of operant conditioning, _____ refers to rewarding successive approximations of a desired behavior.

Shaping

Place where non sensory information is kept for more than a few seconds but less then a minute.

Short term memory

Name three things that impact our consciousness.

Sleep Substances Stress

CH 6 What best describes a stimulus in this class?

Trigger

Storing new information by converting into mental picture

Visual Encoding

What best describes Valangence?

Whether an emotion is pleasant or unpleasant

_____ memory refers to a combination of components that include short-term memory and attention that allow individuals to hold information temporarily as they perform

Working

What is norepinephrine most associated with?

arousal and anxiety

Mohammad is daydreaming in class when his instructor asks him a question. Mohammad finds himself replaying in his "mind's ear" the instructor's last words, taking advantage of a process called:

echoic memory

What are the three key processes involved in memory?

encoding Storage retrieval

The _____ approach to motivation emphasizes the role of instincts in directing behavior.

evolutionary

Clayton offered to give you $20 to tutor him in Calculus. This is an example of what type of motivation?

extrinsic motivation