Brain and Senses
This almond-shaped structure in the limbic system is the brain's emotional epicenter, heavily involved in processing fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
In classical conditioning, this is the originally irrelevant stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.
What is the Conditioned Stimulus?
This is our tendency to best recall the first and last items in a list, while forgetting the middle items.
What is the serial position effect?
Clinicians in the United States utilize this massive diagnostic manual to classify and identify psychological disorders.
What is the DSM 5?
I think Mr. Gwin is a mean person, but really he just didn't get any sleep because his baby was up crying all night. I have committed a...
What is a fundamental attribution error?
This is the spatial period of the sleep cycle during which vivid dreams typically occur, accompanied by muscle paralysis.
What is REM Sleep?
Taking an aspirin to entirely remove a headache is an example of this type of operant conditioning consequence.
What is negative reinforcement?
Learning that is only revealed when there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
What is latent learning?
This behavioral therapy technique gradually exposes a client to their phobia using a hierarchy of fears while practicing deep relaxation.
What is systematic desensitization?
If you subscribe to this belief, you'd think that Taylor Swift deserves all she has because of her hard work, and people struggling must be lazy.
What is the just-world phenomenon?
Damage to this specific area in the left frontal lobe leaves a person able to understand speech, but struggling to physically produce words.
What is Broca's area?
Piaget stated that children realize objects still exist even when hidden—a milestone called object permanence—during this initial stage.
What is Sensorimotor Stage?
This quick rule-of-thumb mental shortcut allows us to make judgments efficiently but can occasionally lead to cognitive biases.
Heuristic
This psychological perspective, championed by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, focuses on unconditional positive regard and self-actualization.
What is permissive Humanistic therapy?
his phenomenon occurs when an individual's strong initial stance becomes even more extreme after discussing the topic with a group of like-minded individuals, driven by normative and informational social influence.
What is group polarization?
This is the minimum difference a person can detect between any two stimuli 50% of the time, also known as the Just Noticeable Difference (JND).
What is the difference threshold?
In Kohlberg's moral development stages, individuals at this highest level judge actions based on self-defined, abstract ethical principles.
What is the postconventional level of morality?
This memory roadblock occurs when old, previously learned information interferes with your ability to recall newly learned information.
What is proactive interference?
Daily Double!! A person suffering from this somatic disorder experiences a highly specific physical symptom—like blindness or paralysis—with no genuine medical cause.
Conversation Disorder
This social psychologist rigged a fake visual perception test using lines of obvious varying lengths to study the power of conformity in groups.
Soloman Asch
This dynamic theory of pain states that the spinal cord contains neurological mechanisms that either block pain signals or allow them to pass to the brain.
What is Gate Control Theory
The process through which Little Albert became scared of all white, fuzzy things (even Santa Clause) not just the white rabbit
What is stimulus generalization
This statistical measure determines how much of the variance in a trait among a population can be attributed to genetics.
What is heritability?
In the DSM-5, a person who experiences an sudden, unexpected travel away from home accompanied by a complete inability to recall their own identity or past is diagnosed with a specific type of dissociative amnesia known by this French-derived term.
What is dissociative fugue?
When a company uses Messi as their spokesperson, they are trying to get people to buy their product using this method
What is the peripheral route to persuasion?