Psychology flash cards

The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli.

the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion

Recall is strongest for items at the end of a list.

tendency of an interviewer to allow positive characteristics of a client to influence the assessments of the client's behavior and statements

First items remembered

The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.

the principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases.

Usually, REM sleep occurs 90 minutes after sleep onset. The first period of REM typically lasts 10 minutes, with each recurring REM stage lengthening, and the final one may last up to an hour. Polysomnograms show brainwave patterns in REM to be similar to that recorded during wakefulness. In people without sleep disorders, heart rate and respiration speed up and become erratic during REM sleep. During this stage the eyes move rapidly in different directions

A psychological factor that provides a directional force or reason for behavior.

Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way, visually or phycially, yet still be the same in number, weight, substance, or volume

An existentialist approach to treatment with the goal of helping the client become aware of his or her thoughts, behaviors, experiences, and feelings and to "own" or take responsibility for them

treatment that strengthens social skills and targets interpersonal problems, conflicts, and life transitions

Your teacher organizes a debate on Freudian theory. You are assigned to be on the anti-Freud side and, therefore, must point out problems in the theory. At the top of your list would be that

the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate

approach to explaining hypnosis based on people's attitudes, beliefs, and expectations