<p>Okay, the point of this is to well... study psych together. Answer the question the person above you asked, and ask the person below you a question. Yay. I'll start.</p>
<p>Name three sleep disorders and describe them.</p>
<p>Sleep apnea- forgetting to breathe during sleep, narcolepsy- falling asleep for moments at a time while awake, sleep terrors- like nightmares only much worse, usually screaming</p>
<p>are those even right? haha. umm, identify 6 major areas of the brain and their functions.</p>
<p>how about just any old six brain structures? :)</p>
<p>thalamus filters incoming sensory stimuli.
brain stem contains the pons, medulla, etc. i believe the medulla is one of the oldest structures of the brain, as it plays a part in basic functions like breathing and reflexes.
amygdala plays a role in anger.
cerebellum is associated with muscle movement as far as i can remember.
corpus callosum separates the two hemispheres of the brain</p>
<p>Identify 4 symptoms of schizophrenia and include whether they are positive or negative.</p>
<p>catatonic, paranoid, disorganized, and undifferentiated. but i dont see how these are positive or negative?</p>
<p>i would say that catatonic, paranoid, etc. are categories of schizophrenia, not symptoms. my textbook (myers 7th edition) categorizes the actual symptoms as being either positive or negative. positive designate symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions. negative symptoms designate symptoms that are a lack or absence of something. examples of negative symptoms would be flat affect or apathy. the positive/negative method of categorizing the symptoms is something i've seen in several places outside my textbook, too.</p>
<p>yeah that sounds about right.</p>
<p>Question: What is positive and negative feedback?</p>
<p>oh sorry, i read "symptoms" as "sub-types".</p>
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<p>Is this relevant to psychology...?</p>
<p>yeah that seems more like biology. to summarize: negative feedback - thermostat. if its too hot, the heater will turn off, if it is too cold, the heater will turn on. positive feedback - giving birth. contractions cause more contractions, until the baby is born.</p>
<p>name and describe two theories of color vision.</p>
<p>Trichromatic Theory: There are three different types of cones in the retina that are sensitive to different colours (blue, red, green). The activation of these cones in different combinations allows us to see different colours.</p>
<p>Opponent-Process Theory: Receptors for colour in the retina come in pairs of colours (red/green, black/white, blue/yellow). When one receptor fires, its pair cannot fire. Thus, we are able to see the different colours.</p>
<p>Explain the word Discrimination in each of the following concepts: Social psychology, classical conditioning, and perception.</p>
<p>regarding feedback- related to learning? as in positive or negative reinforcement? idk. (i cant answer the discrimination question, lol)</p>
<p>Okay, my question seems to have killed this thread... Someone can post a new question..</p>
<p>You killed the last thread with the same question!</p>
<p>discrimination:
in classical conditioning: telling the difference between stimuli
social psychology: behavior acting on prejudices
perception: not sure about this one... discriminating an object from senses</p>
<p>easy general question: Sigmund Freud - what's his theory all about?</p>
<p>Sigmund Freud stated that the unconscious mind controls a lot of how we behave and think. We build this up through repression of previous thoughts that we cannot deal with. (socially unacceptable or causing anxiety)
To understand ourselves we have to understand our dreams and unconscious through a guy psychoanalyzing us. </p>
<p>What are the levels of consciousness and explain each one.</p>
<p>Conscious: What we are currently thinking about/aware of.
Preconscious: Something we are not currently thinking about, but that we could think about.
Nonconscious: Our bodily processes that we aren't usually, or ever, aware of, such as breathing, heartbeat, etc.
Unconscious: In psychoanalytic theory, our unconscious mind is said to contain emotions and thoughts that are too hard to consciously handle.
Subconscious: Thoughts are present in our minds without our conscious awareness. Behavior may indicate the presence of such thoughts.</p>
<p>Whatis the difference between the Subconscious and the Unconscious?</p>
<p>The unconscious mind contains thoughts that are repressed or that we are consciously not aware of. The subconscious mind contains thoughts and memories that we are not immediately consciously aware of, but can be if we become aware of them...</p>
<p>Describe the James-Lange, Cannon-Bard and Schacter-Singer theories of emotion.</p>
<p>James-Lange- emotion is caused by biological changes caused by stress.
Cannon-Bard- emotion and biologicial changes occur simultaneously because both are caused by thalamus.
Schacter-Singer- emotion comprises of biological changes and our thoughts..?</p>
<p>What's an attribution and describe person/situation, unstable/stable...</p>
<p>An attribution is a cause for something that happened. People make attributions about many of the things they observe. Bob got a perfect mark on his English test. You might think that he is good at English, in which case you are making a Person Attribution. You might think that the test was easy, in which case you are making a Situation Attribution. Attributions can be stable or unstable. If you think that Bob is always naturally good at English, you are making a Person-Stable Attribution. If, however, you think that he studied hard for this particular test, you are making a Person-Unstable Attribution. Similarly, if you think that his teacher always makes easy tests, you are making a Situation-Stable Attribution. If you think that he has a tough teacher who randomly made an easy test, you are making a Situation-Unstable Attribution.</p>
<p>State and explain the needs, in order of importance, as indicated in Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Explain a criticism of the hierarchy.</p>
<p>Bottom: basic needs such as getting food; next, shelter; next, love and acceptance; next, self-actualization; and at the very top, self-esteem (Is it self-actualization then esteem or the other way around?)</p>
<p>Criticism... idk?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it's esteem then acutalization but...
Criticism- It's not really true. For example, Tiananmen square, people... died for a cause? Also, people will brave bad experiences for better things I guess... like dieting :P</p>
<p>ummm. Q- What is the babinski reflex?</p>