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Psych Test 1
Chapters 1-5
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
06/06/2012

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Term
Describe Freud's personality theory
Definition

 

ID - pleasure principle (instant grat.) bad

Ego - realistic principle (comes up with solution)

Super Ego - morals principle(comes from society) good

these three are in constant conflict.

Term
Describe freud's level of conciousness
Definition

Concious - current level of awarness

Preconcious - not thinking about, but can remember

Unconcious - hidden (conflict burried here)

Term

Describe Freuds defense mechanisms.

Name and define 3

Definition

(tools your mind uses to hide things)

 

1. Repression - wipe out of memory (child abuse)

2. Projection - true of you that you attribute to others.

3. Overcompensation - overdue one thing because you lack elsewhere.

Term
Describe Freud's Psychosexual stages.
Definition

1. Oral - (B-1.5) - eating disorders, alcoholism

2. Anal - (1.5-3) - control freak, stubborn

3. Phallic - (3-6) - Oedipus Complex

4. Latency - (6-12) - nothing happens

5. Genital - Puberty - can go back to prior stages

Term
What is Oedipus Complex?
Definition
The complex of emotions aroused in a young child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex
Term
What is Electra Complex?
Definition
girls unconcious attraction to the father
Term
What is the Hypothalmus?
Definition

1. Hunger

2. Thirst

3. Sex Drive

4. Body Temp

5. Emotions

 

Lateral - tells you to eat

Ventromedial - tells you you're full

Term
What is the Hippocampus?
Definition
Long term memory
Term
What is the thalamus?
Definition

Brains switchboard

decides where every signal goes except SMELL

Term
What is the Amygdala?
Definition

Fear or aggression

thalamus sends signal to amyg. instead of frontal lobe.

Causes fear (nighttime story)

Term
Brocus Area
Definition
talking
Term
Classical Conditioning chart
Definition

[image]

UCS= unconditioned stimulus

UCR = unconditioned reaction

Term
Psychosocial Stages
Definition

1. Trust/Mistrust - (B-1.5)

2. Autonomy/Shame & Doubt - (1.5-3)

3. Initiative/Guilt - (3-6)

4. Industry/Inferiority - (6-12)

5. Identity/Role confusion - (12-18)

6. Intimacy/Isolation - (18-40)

7. Generativity/Stagnation - (43-65)

8. Integrity/Dispair - (65-Death)

Term

What is operant conditioning? 

2 examples

Definition

The learning of voluntary behavior through reinforcement and punishment.

 

(rat in box)(reward/punishment)

Term
Define Synapse
Definition
space between nerves
Term
define all or none principle
Definition
either the nerve cell fires or it doesnt. no inbetween
Term
Define Lock and Key principle.
Definition
neurotransmitters and receptor sites fit like a puzzle piece
Term
Define Spontaneous Recovery
Definition
when classical conditioning comes back with no warning.
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