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Study Guide for Final Learning Evaluation Modules 15-17, 29-44 Dr. Michael Green - General Psychology 2301 Module 15 – Waking and Sleeping Consciousness our awareness of ourselves and our environments Selective Attention focusing of consciousness on a particular stimulus Selective attention video Counting the number of passes many people missed the girl with the umbrella walking across the room. Biological Rhythms periodic physiological fluctuations Circadian Rhythm the biological clock regular bodily rhythms, such as of wakefulness and body temperature, that occur on a 24-hour cycle REM (Rapid Eye Movement) Sleep recurring sleep stage vivid dreams “paradoxical sleep” muscles are generally relaxed, but other body systems are active Page 1 of 22 Alpha Waves slow waves of a relaxed, awake brain Delta Waves large, slow waves of deep sleep Hallucinations false sensory experiences Daily Sleep Cycle Awake Sleep stage s 1 2 3 REM 4 0 1 2 3 4 Hours of sleep Effects of Sleep Loss fatigue impaired concentration depressed immune system greater vulnerability to accidents Insomnia Page 2 of 22 5 6 7 persistent problems in falling or staying asleep Narcolepsy uncontrollable sleep attacks Sleep Apnea temporary cessation of breathing during sleep momentary reawakenings Neurotransmitters that induce sleep GABA – sleep onset Melatonin – reset circadian clock to suggest it is time to sleep Tips for a Good Night's Sleep Set a schedule: Exercise: Avoid caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol: Relax before bed: Sleep until sunlight: Don't lie in bed awake: Control your room temperature: See a doctor if your sleeping problem continues Adapted from "When You Can't Sleep: The ABCs of ZZZs," by the National Sleep Foundation. Night Terrors occur within 2 or 3 hours of falling asleep, usually during Stage 4 high arousal-- appearance of being terrified seldom remembered Dreams sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person’s mind hallucinatory imagery discontinuities incongruities delusional acceptance of the content difficulties remembering Dream Interpretation Sigmund Freud--The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) wish fulfillment discharge otherwise unacceptable feelings Manifest Content remembered story line, the surface meaning Latent Content underlying meaning Module 16 – Hypnosis Page 3 of 22 A social interaction in which one person (the hypnotist) suggests to another (the subject) that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur. Explaining the Hypnotized State 1. Social Influence Theory: Hypnotic subjects may simply be imaginative actors playing a social role. 2. Divided Consciousness Theory: Hypnosis is a special state of dissociated (divided) consciousness (Hilgard, 1986, 1992). Module 17 – Drugs and Consciousness Psychoactive Drug: A chemical substance that alters perceptions and mood (affects consciousness). Continued use of a psychoactive drug produces tolerance. With repeated exposure to a drug, the drug’s effect lessens. Thus it takes greater quantities to get the desired effect. Withdrawal and Dependence 1. Withdrawal: Upon stopping use of a drug (after addiction), users may experience the undesirable effects of withdrawal. 2. Dependence: Absence of a drug may lead to a feeling of physical pain, intense cravings (physical dependence), and negative emotions (psychological dependence). Psychoactive drugs are divided into three groups. 1. Depressants 2. Stimulants 3. Hallucinogens Depressants are drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions. They include: 1. Alcohol 1. Alcohol affects motor skills, judgment, and memory…and increases aggressiveness while reducing self awareness. Page 4 of 22 2. Barbiturates 1. Barbiturates: Drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment. Nembutal, Seconal, and Amytal are some examples. 3. Opiates Stimulants are drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions. Examples of stimulants are: 1. Caffeine 2. Nicotine 3. Cocaine 4. Ecstasy 5. Amphetamines 6. Methamphetamines Caffeine and nicotine increase heart and breathing rates and other autonomic functions to provide energy. Cocaine induces immediate euphoria followed by a crash. Crack, a form of cocaine, can be smoked. Other forms of cocaine can be sniffed or injected. Hallucinogens are psychedelic (mind-manifesting) drugs that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input. Module 29 – Theories of Emotion Emotion a response of the whole organism physiological arousal expressive behaviors conscious experience James-Lange Theory of Emotion Page 5 of 22 Experience of emotion is awareness of physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion Emotion-arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger: physiological responses subjective experience of emotion Schachter’s Two Theory of Emotion To experience emotion one must: be physically aroused cognitively label the arousal Performance and Arousal Performance peaks at lower levels of arousal for difficult tasks, and at higher levels for easy or well-learned tasks Polygraph machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion perspiration cardiovascular breathing changes Module 30 – Expressed Emotion The Amygdala--a neural key to fear learning Catharsis emotional release catharsis hypothesis “releasing” aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges Feel-good, do-good phenomenon people’s tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood Subjective Well-Being self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life used along with measures of objective well-being physical and economic indicators to evaluate people’s quality of life Adaptation-Level Phenomenon tendency to form judgments relative to a “neutral” level brightness of lights volume of sound Page 6 of 22 level of income defined by our prior experience Relative Deprivation perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself Module 31,32 – Stress and Illness, promoting health Stress the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging General Adaptation Syndrome Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three stages Phase 1 Alarm reaction (mobilize resources) Phase 2 Resistance (cope with stressor) Phase 3 Exhaustion (reserves depleted) Stressful events in your life Catastrophic Events earthquakes, combat stress, floods Life Changes death of a loved one, divorce, loss of job, promotion Daily Hassles rush hour traffic, long lines, job stress, burnout Type A Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people Type B Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people Psychophysiological Illness “mind-body” illness any stress-related physical illness some forms of hypertension some headaches distinct from hypochondriasis-- misinterpreting normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease Biofeedback Page 7 of 22 system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state blood pressure muscle tension Module 33 – Psychoanalytic Perspective Personality an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting basic perspectives Psychoanalytic Humanistic Freud Freud’s theory proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality Psychoanalysis Freud’s theory of personality that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions Free Association in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing Unconscious according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories contemporary viewpoint- information processing of which we are unaware Id contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification Superego the part of personality that presents internalized ideals provides standards for judgement (the conscience) and for future aspirations Ego the largely conscious, “executive” part of personality mediates among the demands of the id, superego, and reality operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain Page 8 of 22 Psychosexual Stages the childhood stages of development during which the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones Oedipus Complex a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father Freud’s Psychosexual Stages Stage Focus Oral (0-18 months) Pleasure centers on the mouth-sucking, biting, chewing Anal (18-36 months) Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control Phallic (3-6 years) Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings Latency (6 to puberty) Dormant sexual feelings Genital (puberty on) Maturation of sexual interests Identification the process by which children incorporate their parents’ values into their developing superegos Fixation a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, where conflicts were unresolved Defense mechanisms Compensation Denial Displacement Intellectualization Projection Rationalization Reaction Formation Repression Regression Page 9 of 22 Repression the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness Regression defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated Reaction Formation defense mechanism by which the ego unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious feelings Projection defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others Rationalization defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions Displacement defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet Intellectualization Intellectualization is treating an emotionally charged situation in a muted or non emotional fashion. For example, someone who accepts the news of a marital breakup passively and with stoicism may be using intellectualization. Compensation A perceived deficit is compensated for by skill or success in another area. For example, a perceived lack of height is compensated for skill in business, the arts, or other areas. Projective Test a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics Rorschach Inkblot Test the most widely used projective test a set of 10 inkblots designed by Hermann Rorschach Page 10 of 22 seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots Neo-Freudians Alfred Adler importance of childhood social tension Karen Horney sought to balance Freud’s masculine biases Carl Jung emphasized the collective unconscious concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history Module 34 – Humanistic Perspective Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) studied self-actualization processes of productive and healthy people (e.g., Lincoln) Self-Actualization the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved the motivation to fulfill one’s potential Carl Rogers (1902-1987) focused on growth and fulfillment of individuals genuineness acceptance empathy Unconditional Positive Regard an attitude of total acceptance toward another person Self-Concept all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in an answer to the question, “Who am I?” Module 35 – Contemporary Research on Personality Trait perspective Trait a characteristic pattern of behavior a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports Personality Inventory Page 11 of 22 a questionnaire (often with true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors used to assess selected personality traits Hans and Sybil Eysenck use two primary personality factors as axes for describing personality variation Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use) now used for many other screening purposes The Big Five Factors Conscientiousness Agreeableness Neuroticism Openness Extraversion Page 12 of 22 Page 13 of 22 Social Cognitive perspective Bandura (1986, 2001, 2005) believes that personality is the result of an interaction that takes place between a person and their social context. Personal Control our sense of controlling our environments rather than feeling helpless External Locus of Control the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one’s personal control determine one’s fate Internal Locus of Control the perception that one controls one’s own fate Learned Helplessness the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events Positive Psychology the scientific study of optimal human functioning aims to discover and promote conditions that enable individuals and communities to thrive Spotlight Effect overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders Self Esteem one’s feelings of high or low self-worth Self-Serving Bias readiness to perceive oneself favorably Module 36 – Introduction to Disorders Psychological Disorder a “harmful dysfunction” in which behavior is judged to be: atypical--not enough in itself disturbing--varies with time and culture maladaptive--harmful unjustifiable--sometimes there’s a good reason Medical Model concept that diseases have physical causes can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured assumes that these “mental” illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a psychiatric hospital Page 14 of 22 Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective assumes that biological, sociocultural, and psychological factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders DSM-IV American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition) a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders Module 37 - Anxiety Anxiety Disorders distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety Generalized Anxiety Disorder person is tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal Panic Disorder marked by a minutes-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensation Phobia persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) Dissociative Disorders conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings Dissociative Identity Disorder rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities formerly called multiple personality disorder Personality Disorders disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning usually without anxiety, depression, or delusions Antisocial Personality Disorder disorder in which the person (usually man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist Page 15 of 22 Module 38 – Mood Disorders Mood Disorders characterized by emotional extremes Major Depressive Disorder a mood disorder in which a person, for no apparent reason, experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities Manic Episode a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state Bipolar Disorder a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania formerly called manic-depressive disorder Depression Page 16 of 22 Altering any one component of the chemistrycognitionmood circuit can alter the others Vicious cycle of depression 1. 2. 3. 4. The vicious cycle of depression can be broken at any point Negative stressful events. Pessimistic explanatory style. Hopeless depressed state. These hamper the way the individual thinks and acts, fueling personal rejection. Module 39 – Schizophrenia Schizophrenia literal translation “split mind” a group of severe disorders characterized by: disorganized and delusional thinking disturbed perceptions inappropriate emotions and actions Delusions false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders Hallucinations sensory experiences without sensory stimulation Page 17 of 22 Module 40 - Therapy Psychotherapy an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties Eclectic Approach an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client’s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy Psychoanalysis Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences – and the therapist’s interpretations of them – released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight use has rapidly decreased in recent years Resistance blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material Interpretation the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight Transference the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships Client-Centered Therapy humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth Page 18 of 22 Active Listening- empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies Behavior Therapy therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors Counterconditioning procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors based on classical conditioning includes systematic desensitization and aversive conditioning Exposure Therapy treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or reality) to the things they fear and avoid Systematic Desensitization type of counterconditioning associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli commonly used to treat phobias Aversive Conditioning type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior nausea ---> alcohol Token Economy an operant conditioning procedure that rewards desired behavior patient exchanges a token of some sort, earned for exhibiting the desired behavior, for various privileges or treats Cognitive Therapy teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing selfdefeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) Family Therapy treats the family as a system views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication Page 19 of 22 Module 42 – Biomedical Therapies Psychopharmacology study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient Psychosurgery surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior lobotomy now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients Module 43 – Social Thinking Social Psychology scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another Attribution Theory tendency to give a causal explanation for someone’s behavior, often by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition Fundamental Attribution Error tendency for observers, when analyzing another’s behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition Attitude belief and feeling that predisposes one to respond in a particular way to objects, people and events Page 20 of 22 Our behavior is affected by our inner attitudes as well as by external social influences Internal attitudes External influences Behavior Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request Role set of expectations about a social position defines how those in the position ought to behave Cognitive Dissonance Theory we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent example- when we become aware that our attitudes and our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes Module 44 – Social Influence Conformity adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard Normative Social Influence influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval Informational Social Influence influence resulting from one’s willingness to accept others’ opinions about reality Page 21 of 22 Milgram’s Social Influence study Social Facilitation improved performance of tasks in the presence of others occurs with simple or well-learned tasks but not with tasks that are difficult or not yet mastered Social Loafing tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable Deindividuation loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity Group Polarization enhancement of a group’s prevailing attitudes through discussion within the group Groupthink mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides realistic appraisal of alternatives Page 22 of 22