Psychology Flashcards: Extinction Burst & Therapy

This occurs when an individual no longer receives regular reinforcement, so original behavior will spike in a last effort.

A technique used to aid in phobias by heavily increasing anxiety so that individuals can determine that their fear is irrational.

Conditioning an unwanted behavior into a wanted behavior or response by associating positive actions.

<p>The tendency of an animal to revert to instinctual behaviors that interfere with a conditioned response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Continuous reinforcement leads to faster extinction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Solving a problem using past skills that you have already learned.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Central route processing engages the listener more deeply.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Using too much self-control will prevent you from using self-control on future tasks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fixed Ratio</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When the real self is not aligned with the ideal self.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Oral stage (0-1), 2. Anal stage (1-3), 3. Phallic stage (3-6), 4. Latent stage (6-12), 5. Genital stage (12+).</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Memory, Attention, Perception, Sensation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Preconventional, 2. Conventional, 3. Post conventional.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process by which people learn the attitudes, behaviors, and values expected by their community and culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea of social behaviorism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Trust vs. Mistrust (0-1), 2. Autonomy vs. Shame (1-3), 3. Initiative vs. Guilt (3-6), 4. Industry vs. Inferiority (6-12), 5. Identity vs. Role Confusion (12-20), 6. Intimacy vs. Isolation (20-40), 7. Generativity vs. Stagnation (40-65), 8. Integrity vs. Despair (65+).</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The attempt of people to control how others view us.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attributing human characteristics to non-human animals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Changes in a population that make it more likely for an offspring to succeed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Repeated exposure to individuals or objects that increase our chances of liking it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assuming that others share the same beliefs that we have.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The tendency where you think everyone agrees with your opinion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Choosing a spouse with similar characteristics as you.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Instructions provided by society on how to act.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attachment to a mother has to do with comfort levels and not food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Institutions are natural byproducts of human nature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When you're sick, you're allowed to take a break.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Concepts in society that everyone agrees to treat a certain way regardless of inherent value.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Weighing costs and benefits against each other to gain the most benefit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Values that are in line with the larger society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A perspective focusing on developmental processes across a person's life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Behavior is determined by our age group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Successful elderly people disengage from society as they age.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of people under age 15 and over age 64 compared to the number of people active in the labor force.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An area of the brain that connects Wernicke's area and Broca's area.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Destruction of the amygdala.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Olfaction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He believed that language and thought are independent but converge through development.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language learning is innate, with a critical period from birth to age 9.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Language acquired through operant conditioning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sound processing, speech perception, memory, and emotion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The pons, medulla, and cerebellum.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sperm binds to the zona pellucida.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Activity of the heart and lungs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Required for consciousness and diffusion of glutamate into the cerebral cortex.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inhibits prolactin and is involved in reward pathways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deviance is a learned behavior resulting from exposure to law-violating individuals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If blocked from achieving culturally accepted goals, individuals may turn to deviance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The belief that bad things happen to others but not to us.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emphasis placed on the most recent actions or performances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Charles Cooley.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Things that gain popularity quickly and lose it just as fast.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cannibalism and incest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Socially constructed expectations of behavior based on gender.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The idea that thoughts determine language completely.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Stress arises more from interpretation of the stressor than the physical event.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Event leads to labeling an event which results in an emotion and physiological response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emotion is based on a physiological response and a cognitive label.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The way something is said influences its meaning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Qualifications and NOT favoritism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Women and other minorities are poorly represented in higher positions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Intragenerational mobility refers to change in social class within a person's lifetime, while intergenerational mobility refers to change in social class between generations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Transmitting social benefits or inequalities from one generation to the next.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cultural capital refers to non-financial social assets that promote social mobility, while social capital refers to the network of relationships in a society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Segregated communities are politically weak due to overlapping interests.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Opportunities for low socioeconomic status individuals in segregated communities may be present but hard to access.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Awareness of oneself and one's interests only.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regulates the activity of the heart and lungs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Released from raphe nuclei.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Coordinating movements, helping with balance, and fine motor function.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Body metabolism and regulating T3 and T4.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Participants in an experiment change their behavior based on what they think the experimenter wants.</p> Signup and view all the answers