History and Approaches
Rhe science of behavior and mental processes
What is psychology?
The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.
What is memory?
The division of the automatic nervous system that calms the body & conserves energy.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Distressing persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
What are anxiety disorders?
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is a schema?
Structuralism, Functionalism, and Behaviorism
What are the three early schools of thought?
What is encoding, storage, and retrieval?
Pituitary gland.
What regulates the endocrine system?
A widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
What is the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
Unselfish regard for the welfare of others.
He founded the first psychological laboratory.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Saves/processes verbal information on the left and visual information on the right
What is the hippocampus?
A series of x-ray photos taken from different angles and combined by a computer into a composite representation of a slice of the brain's structure.
What is a computed tomography (CT) scan?
This is reflected in Katie who is scared to go out on dates with men because her father sexually abused her when she was young.
What is a learning perspective?
The phenomena of differing opinions getting shut down when in a group of different-minded outspoken people.
What is groupthink?
The number of cases that fall within one standard deviation of the mean on a normal curve.
What is 68%?
Because of this, H.M. could recall memories but not form new ones.
What is anterograde amnesia?
The study of how the environment triggered genetic expressions
What is epigenetics?
The common cold of psychological disorders/
What is depression?
Three psychologists who have outlined developmental stages.
Who are Lawrence Kohlberg, Erik Erickson, and Jean Piaget?
An understanding of social-cultural influences based on multiple levels of analysis.
What is a biopsychosocial perspective?
This I.Q. score indicates creativity.
What is 120+?
An oversupply of this leads to seizures, tremors, and insomnia.
What is gamma-aminobutyric acid(GABA)?
A symptom is word salad.
What is schizophrenia?
The phenomena that occurs when one's actions don't agree with one's thoughts.
What is cognitive dissonance?