PSYCH 2750 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unconscious Mind, Reaction Formation, Humanistic Psychology

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2750
• Professor: Jennifer Schwade

Document Summary

Questions from in-class handout on the reimer twins gender is primarily learned, nurture is more important than nature. What brain circuits/networks are most relevant to the functions relevant to guiding social behavior how do individual differences in these brain circuits related to individual difference in experience and behavior. Evaluative (limbic) experimental, hot , associative, system 1 (automatic, often not conscious, fast, effortless) in effect in early development emotional, affective implicit stimulus control. Cool , rational, rule-based, self control deliberate, effortful intentional, voluntary. Behavioral activation system (bas) sensitive to rewards food, sex (primary) praise, money (secondary) linked with appetitive, approach-related behaviors. Negative inhibition system (bis) sensitive to threats and punishment physical pain or discomfort loss of money, status avoidance motivation activates physiological arousal, heightened alertness & inhibition of ongoing behavior amygdala & serotonergic system. Inhibitory control / cognitive control / executive function: define, examples, impairment of those processes.