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Psych 100 PSU (Crosby) Final Exam 100% Accurateanxiety disorders - ANSWER disorders in which the main symptom is excessive or unrealistic anxiety and fearfulness. biopsychosocial model of abnormality - ANSWER abnormal behavior is seen as the result of the combined and interacting forces of biological, psychological, social, and cultural influences. (they are not singularly influential but may influence and interact with one another) bipolar disorder - ANSWER severe mood swings between maj...

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Psych 100 Crosby Final Exam Complete Questionsanorexia nervosa - ANSWER an eating disorder characterized by a low body weight, a fear of gaining weight or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain, a distorted self-image, and a lack of recognition of the seriousness of low body weight anxiety disorders - ANSWER disorders in which the main symptom is excessive or unrealistic anxiety or fearfulness biopsychosocial model of abnormality - ANSWER abnormal behavior is seen as a result...

PSYCH 100 Final Exam (PSU Crosby) extras 100% Correct Anorexia Nervosa - ANSWER Eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation Distorted self-image; think they're bigger than they are Low body weight Anxiety Disorders - ANSWER Disorders in which the main symptom is excessive or unrealistic anxiety Bipolar Disorder - ANSWER Severe mood swings between major depressive and manic episodes Duration of episodes must be longer than one week Bulimia ...

PSYCH 100 Final Exam (PSU Crosby) extras 36-71 10Systematic Desensitization - ANSWER Step 1: Relaxation training Step 2: Fear hierarchy Step 3: progressive exposure Therapy - ANSWER Treatment aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively Actor-Observer Bias - ANSWER When asked to explain our own behavior, we tend to attribute more to the situation and less about us Altruism - ANSWER prosocial behavior with no reward for us, but a chance of harm Aggression - ANSWE...

PSYCH 100 Final Exam (PSU Crosby) 9-10 10Big Five (Five-Factor Model) - ANSWER a theory of personality that includes the following five dimensions: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism *Acronym: OCEAN* Ego - ANSWER reality principle, seeks to gratify id principle in realistic ways that will bring pleasure Freud - ANSWER developed the first comprehensive theory of personality, which included the unconscious mind, psychosexual stages, and ...

PSYCH 100 Final Exam (PSU Crosby) 5-6 25Visual Accomodation - ANSWER the process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina Classical Conditioning - ANSWER learning to associate two stimuli and thus anticipate events; involuntary; NEW response to a stimulus that didn't previously produce a response; CS must immediately precede UCS; expectancy: UCS to follow CS Conditioned Response (CR) - ANSWER a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus C...

PSYCH 100 Final Exam (PSU Crosby) 5-6 1-2Absolute Threshold - ANSWER the minimum stimulus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time Afterimages - ANSWER images that occur when a visual sensation persists for a brief time even after the original stimulus is removed Binocular Cues - ANSWER depth cues that depend on the use of 2 eyes, example: retinal disparity Bottom-Up Processing - ANSWER analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works its way up to the brai...

psychology - ANSWER the scientific study of behavior and mental processes scientific method - ANSWER a system for reducing bias and error in the measurement of data what are the five steps in the scientific method? - ANSWER 1) perceiving the question 2) form a hypothesis 3) testing the hypothesis 4) drawing conclusions 5) report your results what is a naturalistic observation? - ANSWER involves watching animals or people in their natural environments what are some limitations o...