psych

Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

Person may be predisposed for a mental disorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress

Corpus Callosum

This theory uses cultural mapping to explain that people are not inherently deviant, but they are influenced by circumstance.

extent which a measurement and a property are conceptually related

difficulty producing or comprehending language

manipulated

feel discomfort when beliefs don't match our actions or thoughts. We may change our beliefs and attitiudes

Control, Attitude, Commitment, Perspective

easily aroused, hostility, impatience, sense of time urgency

answer

variations in the value of one variable are synchronized w/ variations in the value of the other

measured

fast efficient strategy that may facilitate decision making but does not guarantee a solution will be reached

Statistic that describes the average difference between the measurements in a frequently distribution and the mean of that distribution

tendency for a measure to produce the same measurement whenever it is used to measure the same thing

new memories

Items that are more readily available in memory are judged as having occurred more frequently

situation in which info learned later impairs memory for info acquired later

variables are correlated only because each is causally related to a third variable

Sometimes we see casual relationships that don't actually exist

analyst begins to assume a major significance in clients life and client reacts to analyst based on unconscious childhood fantasies

Process by which infants revise their schemas in light of new information

sympathetic nervous system gets heart pounding while mind experiences fear

physically aroused/ cognitively label the arousal

smile then feel happy

prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true due to positive feedback "between belied and behavior"

Infants acquire info about the world by sensing it and moving around with it (Birth-2yrs)

Children learn how various actions or operations can affect or transform concrete objects

Mental age/physical age X 100

test score of person/ average test score X 100

When people think that two events are more likely to occur together than either individual event

previous experiences aid the performance of a task w out conscious awareness of the previous experiences

Children can solve no physical problems/ abstract thinking 11years+

weakens response vs. strengthens response

children have a preliminary understanding of the physical world. 2-6yrs

info later impairs memory for info acquired earlier

individuals feel diminished responsibility for their actions when they are surrounded by others who are acting the same way

conscious, intentional recollection of previous experiences and information

process by which infants apply their schemas in novel situations

making a probability judgement by comparing an object or event to a pro type of the object or event

difficulty producing or comprehending language

person may be presupposed for a mental disorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by strew