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Final Study Guide - General Psychology | PSY 201, Study notes of Psychology

Material Type: Notes; Professor: West; Class: General Psychology; Subject: Psychology; University: Tri-County Technical College; Term: Fall 2009;

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Uploaded on 12/21/2009

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1. Homeostasis=
2. What should a very angry person do?
3. What is the difference between correlation studies and experiments?
4. 2 factor theory of emotion=
5. Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
6. Under what conditions do our actions fall in line with our attitude?
7. What is the most convincing evidence for the effectiveness of psychotherapy? –statistical
studies
8. Meditative relaxation
9. What happens in an experiment vs. other methods?
10. If someone is depressed or abuses alcohol or both- they will have a higher risk of suicide
11. One of the sexual disorders males undergo= erectile dysfunction (2nd most common)
12. Need =
13. Biopsychosocial approach = multiple levels of analysis
14. Refractory period= time between orgasms for men
15. Nature vs. nurture= genetics vs. environment
16. Prejudice=
17. Chameleon effect= person who tries hard to alter behavior to fit in
18. ADHD’s major problem= distractibility
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  1. Homeostasis=
  2. What should a very angry person do?
  3. What is the difference between correlation studies and experiments?
  4. 2 factor theory of emotion=
  5. Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
  6. Under what conditions do our actions fall in line with our attitude?
  7. What is the most convincing evidence for the effectiveness of psychotherapy? –statistical studies
  8. Meditative relaxation
  9. What happens in an experiment vs. other methods?
  10. If someone is depressed or abuses alcohol or both- they will have a higher risk of suicide
  11. One of the sexual disorders males undergo= erectile dysfunction (2nd^ most common)
  12. Need =
  13. Biopsychosocial approach = multiple levels of analysis
  14. Refractory period= time between orgasms for men
  15. Nature vs. nurture= genetics vs. environment
  16. Prejudice=
  17. Chameleon effect= person who tries hard to alter behavior to fit in
  18. ADHD’s major problem= distractibility
  1. Threshold=
  2. Placebo=
  3. Teenagers who drink alcohol vs. teens who don’t are more likely to have sex
  4. LSD is most likely to produce hallucinations
  5. Counseling psychologist=
  6. Schizophrenia= hallucinations and delusions
  7. People underestimate calories and overestimates burnt calories
  8. Lobotomy=
  9. Occipital lobes=
  10. Attribution theory= explaining someone’s behavior
  11. Watch people and overestimate someone’s personality = fundamental attribution theory
  12. Psychoactive drugs= stimulants, depressants, hallucinogen
  13. Part of the brain that is a network inside the brainstem that controls arousal = reticular formation
  14. Sensory neurons= carry pain signals to brain
  15. Stress causes illness
  16. Naturalistic observation
  17. Carl rovers- client centered therapy
  18. Ecstasy= euphoric high/ social intimacy
  1. Aids= immune system disorder
  2. General adaptation syndrome
  3. Study mating rituals= naturalistic observation
  4. Guilty knowledge test= rule in or rule out suspects
  5. Social facilitation= if you’re good at something you’ll do better in front of people/ college students wind fishing line on a reel, they’ll do it faster
  6. Why do psychologists use deception? -to get an honest, emotional responses
  7. Phobias=
  8. What type of research uses random assignments? –experiment
  9. Men vs. women to see differences- nature vs. nurture
  10. Most common biomedical therapy? –drugs
  11. People in passionate love with each other gaze in each another’s house?
  12. What area of the brain makes humans different than animals? Cerebral cortex
  13. First impression is based on physical appearance
  14. Anxious, nervous person= general anxiety disorder
  15. Exposing yourself to something negative to fix a habit= aversive conditioning
  16. Maslow- concerned about safety won’t socialize- hierarchy of needs- need safety
  17. Hypothalamus- eat, drink, be merry
  18. Married people with supportive partners- healthy and live longer
  1. Do personal values influence psychologists? ALL OF THE ABOVE
  2. Dissociative identity disorder- split between identity and conscience awareness
  3. chemical messengers of endocrine system- hormones
  4. chemical messengers of nervous system- neurotransmitters
  5. psychological dependence- no physical withdrawals, but desire for something
  6. anorexia- trigger is a weight loss diet
  7. biofeedback= some paralyzed people have learned to bring their blood pressure down
  8. most important thing about sex is the brain
  9. implicit= prejudice
  10. information social influence- when you think people know more than you
  11. animals can be bred for aggression
  12. left hemisphere specializes in language
  13. alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine that alter our moods and perceptions are psychoactive drugs
  14. When women ovulate, what hormone peaks? -estrogen
  15. neurotransmitter acetylcholine is associated with voluntary movement and muscle contraction
  16. psychiatrists and psychologists are most likely to say a disorder is abnormal if it is distressful
  17. neurotransmitters travel across synapses
  18. drugs to reduce insomnia harbituates
  19. human traits have been affected by evolution by = natural selection