Define describe “goals of psychology”

To specify characteristics of behavior and mental processes

Define Change “goals of psychology”

To prevent, produce, cure, treat, remedy, influence behavior

Define Explain “goals of psychology”

To identify factors and effects of behavior and mental

processes

Define Predict “goals of psychology”

To foretell events based on knowledge of relationships

between variables

Define Psychology: comes from the greek word meaning

breath of life or meaning soul/spirit loosely translated as mine

Define the difference between psychiatrists and psychologists

Psychiatrists prescribe medicine, and psychologists study
human behavior

List famous psychologists and Psychiatrists

Max Wertheirmer
Carl Jung
Sigmund Freud
Define Psychoanalytic
Psychoanalytic is process of unconscious conflicts based on
childhood events

What is the strategy for psychoanalytic

Free association

What are the two parts of the brain that Freud explained
The two parts of the brain are unconscious and subconscious

Explain ID, SUPEREGO, and EGO

ID: primitive desires, pleasure seeking (hunger sex)
SuperEgo: Normalized norms, realistic side, morals
Ego: acts as referee

Explain behaviouristic: this is the study of the effects of

environment such as rewards, punishment

What is behavioristic study is observational study (prediction,

control)

What is humanistic behavior is the study that strives towards

self actualization

Explain the 5 humanistic behaviors that lead towards self

actualization?
Self love, esteem, friendship, confidence, sleep

What is cognitive behavior: cognitive behavior is the way we

think, learn and interpret

Explain cognitive behavior

Cognitive behavior is how we view and deal with world, think
and remember, make decisions, and use of language

Name 2 scientists for each of the following

Psychoanalytic: Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud
Behaviouristic: Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner
Humanistic: Abrahim Maslow, Carl Rogers
Cognitive: Jean Piaget, Albert Bandura

What is mental health?

Mental health is the study of successful mental activity of
productive daily activity, managing relationships, and coping
with stress

When does mental illness occur?

Mental health occurs when our brain or part of our brain is not
working well

What are the 6 functions of the brain and why is it important?

The 6 functions of our brain ensure that are brain is working
well: thinking, behavior, physical, signaling, perception, and
emotion

State the three symptoms of mental illness?

High low emotions
Lack of sleep
Thinking difficulty, problem focusing

How many people have mental health issues?

400mil people have mental health issues
What two illnesses are culturally free?
Schizophrenia and Depression

What was the Rosenhan study and when did it happen?

1973 is when the Rosenhan study occurred this study was
where schizophrenic patients were put into psychiatric wards
and later on acted normal. This was seen as pathological
behavior

How does mental illness happen?

Genetics + Environment = Brain disorder

State three facts of causes of mental illness

Is caused by abnormal brain function
Is caused by brain disorder
Is caused by stress

State three facts on how mental illness is not caused?

Is not caused by poverty
Is not caused by poor parenting or bad behavior
Is not caused by weakness or deficits in personality

What mental illnesses can begin in childhood? (State 3)

ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
ASD (Autism spectrum disorder
GAD (generalized anxiety disorder)

What mental illnesses begin at adulthood? (State 3)

Schizophrenia
Panic disorder
Bipolar disorder
Why are teenagers most likely to be drug addicts?
Because of stress, peers, and dopamine levels

What does Helen Fisher describe love as?

Love is an addiction, a craving, hunger

Who is Abrahim Maslow? When was he born and died?

Explain Abrahim Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

Who is Sigmund Freud and when was he born and died?

What is sigmund frued’s theory on sexual desires?

Who was Jean Piaget when he was born, died?

Explain Jean Piaget’s Binet IQ test with all the stages

Who was Erik Erikson when he was born, die?

Explain Erik Erikson’s physiological stages of development

Define attention: watching closely to an image (watching,

listening)

Define retention: storing that image in your memory or the

information in your memory

Define reproduction: performing the image or the activity from

your memory
Define motivation: needing self confidence or motivation to
keep striving towards the activity/goal

Define the bobo doll experiment

The bobo doll experiment was an experiment where an adult
was put into a room with the bobo doll. The adult then started
being violent towards the bobo doll. There were kids that were
watching the adults be violent towards the bobo doll and when
they were put into a room with a bobo doll they expressed the
same emotion. On the other hand there was another adult
who was put into a room with a bobo doll who expressed nice
behavior and the kids saw that and when they were put into a
room with the bobo doll they expressed the same behavior
(niceness) as the adult

Who conducted the bobo doll experiment?

Albert Bandura did the bobo doll experiment he wanted to see
if the attention, retention, reproduction, memory, theory
worked. He was a Canadian - american psychologist.

Explain the factors that explain observational learning (5)

Physical ability: to be able to actually perform the task
Status or prestige of “teacher”: more value = greater learning
= greater motivation
Similar teacher: if the teacher is similar to learner (age,
culture) the learner is more likely to be successful
Outcome/Value of goal: learners motivation increases they
are able to replicate behavior
Belief in ability: having self confidence and belief to be able to
continue towards goal
Why are emotions related to fight or flight?
Emotions are related to fight or flight because as humans we
chose if we want to deal with our emotions or run away

What is primary based emotions give examples

Primary based emotion is one type of emotion (joy, sad,
anger, disgust)

What is blended emotions give examples

Blended emotion is two types of emotions love (acceptance +
joy), remorse (sad + disgust), awe (fear + surprise)

What are the three components of our emotions?

What are the two factors of emotions?

Heredity (social-nature): inheriting emotions expressions
Environment (social-nurture): consequences of the
environment that makes us adapt emotions or expressions

Define stress is the physical/psychological way to respond to

environment such as job interview

Define Eustress and give three examples

Eustress is positive stress: short while, feels exciting,
improves performance

Define distress and give three examples

Distress is negative stress: can cause concern, anxiety, feels
unpleasant, decreases performance
What are the three stages of general adaptation syndrome
define them

Give three examples of negative coping strategies

Drugs, Alcohol, Revenge

Give three examples of positive coping strategies

Family, physical, mental

Define sleep:

What is NREM and REM, define NREM and REM

Non Rapid eye movement, rapid eye movement
NREM is where the sleep happen REM is where the dreams
happen

Explain the NREM stage

Explain them REM stage

Give three examples of consequences of not having enough

sleep

How much sleep do teenagers need?

7-8hrs

Give 3 examples of sleep disorders

Insomnia, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome

What is conscious, preconscious, and unconscious how much

of it is visible
What is Freudian sleep?

State 3 facts of dreams

What is a favorable and unfavorable dream?

What is ASPD?

Why is ASPD hard to treat?

List three ASPD key characteristics

List three ASPD key characteristics in adulthood

What is psychotic disorder?

What is psychopathy disorder?

What are the key characteristics of psychopathy disorder?

What is psychopathy disorder in teens/kids called?

How do kids behave who have the three signs from the
macdonald triad?

List three characteristics of ASPD vs Psychopathic disorder

List 5 serial killers with clear, specific examples.

What is sensation?

What is the absolute threshold?

What is signal detection theory?

What is sensory adaptation?

What is perception?

What are the three functions of perceiving?

What are the three factors of perceiving?

Who is B.F Skinner? When was he born and died?

Define reinforcer

Define positive reinforcement

Define negative reinforcement

Define overjustification effect

Define Shaping

What is positive punishment?

What is negative punishment?

Explain the dogs and salivation procedure

Define Stimulus

Define response
Define classical conditioning

Define Unconditioned stimulus, what was the UCS in Pavlov’s

experiment

Define Unconditioned response, what was the UCR in

Pavlov’s experiment.

Define conditioned stimulus

Define Conditioned Response

Explain before conditioning, during conditioning, and after

conditioning in Pavlov’s experiment

Define Acquisition

Define Extinction

Define spontaneous recovery

Define Stimulus Generalization

Define Stimulus Discrimination

Explain the Little Albert experiment

What is the CS, UCS, and UCR in the Little Albert experiment,
before conditioning and after conditioning
Define Aversion therapy

What is APA and IRB?

List 5 of the ethical human research

List 4 of the ethical animal research

Explain David Reimer Experiment

Explain Milgram Experiment

Explain Stanford Prison Experiment