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| What are the first 3 steps in mental communication? | call person by name, tell per-I love & respect you, tell them everything that's wrong |
| What are the last 4 steps in mental communication? | how to improve, they will benefit by improving, I love & respect you, goodbye call by name |
| What is ESP(extra sensory perception)? | receiving info about the world through channels other than the normal senses |
| What are the benefits of meditation? | achieving a degree of inner peace |
| What is meditation? | an altered state that allows the individual to focus on a image or thought |
| What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? | consists of three basic needs: self-actualization, psychological, & fundamental needs. You can't skip any steps on the way up, but you can going down. |
| What is an hallucination? | perceptions that have no direct external cause-seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, etc. things that aren't there |
| What is a Freudian Slip? | the experience of saying the opposite of what you meant to say. Freud believed is what you truly meant. |
| How do drugs affect us psychologically? | drugs interact with central nervous system. Effect can vary tremendously from one person to another |
| What is consciousness? | the mental sensations which are in your mind at any one time |
| What is hypnosis? | altered state of consciousness where the person becomes open to suggestion. Does not use critical thinking ability. |
| What is sensory adaptation? | our senses adapt to a constant level of stimulation and react only to change |
| What is perceptual inference? | the process of assuming based on past experience |
| What is perception? | organization of sensory information onto meaningul whole patterns |
| What is absolute threshold? | the smallest amount of energy that will produce a sensation |
| What is a drive? | physiological state which arises from a physical need and directs behavior |
| What are examples of a drive? | hunger, thirst, sleep, sex |
| What is Weber's Law? | the longer or stronger a stimuli, the greater the change needed for an observer to notice that a change has taken place |
| What is REM sleep? | rapid eye movement, when dreaming occurs |
| Where do we learn our social motives? | family and friends |
| How can hypnosis be used? | can solve problems or learn more about how the subject's mind works |
| How many hugs do you need per day? | 8 |
| Why is it possible to express the same emotion in more than one way? | the differences in people |
| Describe Harlowe's experiments. | experimented with a monkey to see if animals need human contact |
| Put Weber's into your own words | you get used to a stimuli, therefore you need a bigger change |
| What are dreams? | mental activity taking place during REM sleep |
| What is Gestalt? | Whole experiences from bits and pieces of objects and patterns. How we make sense of the world |
| What is motivation? | encouragement to direct energies toward a goal that has acquired meaning |
| What is altered state? | change in mental processing: sleep, dreams, hypnotic state, alcohol, medication |
| Describe a sleep cycle. | 90 minutes-4 stages, 1-REM sleep, 4-deep sleep |
| What is a Classic Boredom Study? | *page 167 |
