Transcript of Drugs Attitudes Group Influence Names The Eye.
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Group Influence
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Drugs Attitudes Group Influence Names The Eye Normal Curve
What type of drug is LSD?
Hallucinogen
Drug classification of amphetamines and cocaine
Stimulant
Drugs that block receptor SITES are known as
Agonists
Drugs that mimic neurotransmitters are called
Agonists
How does alcohol affect the brain?
Effects the cerebellum (balance, coordination) and frontal lobe (judgment, decision making), suppresses the processing of memories into long term memory; interrupts REM sleep; Can shrink the brain
How do attitudes form?
Personal experience, contact with others (friends, family members, media), operant conditioning and observational learning
Tendency for people who agree to a small action to comply later with a larger one
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
What is cognitive dissonance?
When two or more attitudes conflict or when your attitudes conflict with your actions
What is the central route to persuasion?
Attitude change path in which one focuses on the information presented
How does one reduce cognitive dissonance?
Either change your actions or change your attitudes!
The reduced motivation and effort shown by individuals working in a group as opposed to working alone
Social Loafing
When discussion makes a group more extreme than the initial opinions of its members ________ has occurred
Group polarization
Often the reason why some people engage in mob activity
Deindividuation
What is groupthink?
(Often) flawed decision making in which a group does not question its decisions critically
Well practiced, simple skills improve in the presence of others because of
Social facilitation
Irving Janis
Groupthink
Mary Whiton Calkins
First female APA president
Michael Gazzaniga
Split brain research
Ernest Hilgard
Hidden observer; Divided consciousness theory of hypnosis
Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky
Researched many concepts related to cognition including the availability and representativeness heuristics
Protects the eye
Cornea
Expands or shrink to control the amount of light let into the eye
Iris (although it looks like the pupil is changing)
Place where your vision is the best and most focused
Fovea
Three layers of the retina
Rods and cones (receptor cells for sight!), bipolar cells, ganglion cells (whose axons form the optic nerve)
What is the job of the lens?
Stretches/thickens depending on distance of object in visual field
Where are the measures of central tendency on a normal curve?
In the middle!
What percentage of scores fall within one standard deviation on a normal curve?
68% (34 above and 35 below); On an IQ normal curve 68% are between 85 and 115
What percentage of scores fall between 2 standard deviations of the mean on a normal curve?
95%
Describe a positively skewed distribution
Mode is still highest point on graph (lowest number); Median is between mode and mean and mean is highest (number); “Tail” is on the right
Describe a negatively skewed distribution
Mode is highest point and highest number, median is in between mode and mean, and mean is the lowest score; “Tail” is on the left