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Psychology Final 2
Pschology Final Exam Review (part 2)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bipolar 2 | Must have at least 2 major depressive episode and one hypomanic episode |
| Bipolar 2 | Must have at least 2 major depressive episode and one hypomanic episode |
| Schizophrenia | Psychological disorder that can include delusions, hallucinations, and abnormal motor behaviors |
| Psychosis | Loss of contact with reality that is severes and chronic |
| delusions | false beliefs without evidence |
| Hallucinations | "perception-like" experience that the indivual believes is real |
| Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia | synthesis, release, and concentrations of dopamine are all elevated |
| Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia | synthesis, release, and concentrations of dopamine are all elevated |
| positive Symptoms of Schzophrenia | distortion of normal behavior include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech |
| positive Symptoms of Schzophrenia | distortion of normal behavior include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech |
| Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia | absence of expected behaviors |
| Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia | absence of expected behaviors |
| Autism spectrum disorder | some degree of difficulty with social interaction and communication |
| Autism spectrum disorder | some degree of difficulty with social interaction and communication |
| Personality disorders | impairments in cognition, emotional responses, intrapersonal functioning and impulse control |
| anti-social personality disorder | unethical behavior, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability, disregard for others |
| borderline personality disorder | suffer from feelings of emptiness and incomplete sense of self |
| dissociative disorder | disturbances in normal psychological functioning; disturbance in memory, perception, or identity |
| Dissociative Amnesia | Difficulty in remembering important personal information |
| Dissociative Fugue | wandering in a confused and disorganized manner |
| Dissociative Identity Disorder | "multiple personality" disorder; rare condition |
| Anorexia Nervosa | self-imposed restriction on calories needed to maintain a healthy weight |
| Bulimia Nervosa | recurrent episodes of binge eating in short periods of time |
| Binge Eating Disorder | epidodes of excessive eating; no purging |
| Memory | learning that persists over time |
| Encoding | Getting information into our brain |
| Storage | Retaining information |
| Retrieval | getting information back out |
| Sensory Memory | feeds our active working memory, recording momentary images |
| Short-Term Memory | small amount of information is stored for a short-period of time |
| Long-Term Memory | Storage where information is more or less stored permanently |
| Iconic Memory | A fleeting sensory memory of visual stimuli |
| Eidetic Memory | ability to vividly recall an image you are exposed to, but only briefly |
| Echoic Memory | Fleeting memory of auditory stimuli |
| Working Memory | A stage where short-term memory combine with long-term memory |
| Implicit Memory | Encoding without our conscious awareness through automatic processing |
| Effortful Processing | Encoding information through conscious attention and effort |
| Explicit Memory | Facts and experiences we can consciously know and declare ; encoded through effortful processing |
| Involves thinking about the meaning of information and connecting it to other already stored memory | |
| Massed Practice | cramming may produce short-term memory |
| Distributed Practice | learning information better when our encoding is distributed overtime |
| Retrieval Cue | weeks of associations interconnected with others |
| Priming | Activation of our associations without our awareness |
| Recall | Retrieving that is not currently in our conscious awareness but learned earlier |
| Recognition | identifying items previously learned |
| Serial Position Effect | The tendency to recall best the last and the first items on a list |
| Encoding Specificity Principle | Cues and context specific to certain memory allow better recall |
| Mood Congruence | Tendency to recall experiences consistent with current mood |
| Encoding Failure | Inability to encode information into short or longterm memory by not rehearsing |
| Storage Failure | Inability to store information in long-term memory even if encoded properly |
| Retrieval Failure | Inability to access information in long-term memory for retrieval |
| Proactive interference | Tendency for prior learning to disrupt recall of new information |
| Retroactive Interference | Tendency for new learning to disrupt recall of all information |
| Rich False Memories | Memories (often persistent) of events that never happened |
| Anterograde Amnesia | Inability to form new memories |
| Retrograde Amnesia | Inability to recall old information. |
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