The Brain
The region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
What is tolerance?
When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts
What is psychoanalytic theory?
This type of anxiety involves brief, intense episodes of fear accompanied by physical symptoms like chest pains, dizziness, or numbness.
What is a panic attack?
The retrograde type of this condition applies to events before a head injury. The anterograde to events after it.
What is amnesia
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
The three major categories of psychoactive drugs.
What are Depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens?
People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal dispositions or external situations
What is Attribution theory?
This manual is used by mental-health professionals in the U.S. to diagnose psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-5-TR?
This set of the brain structure helps regulate emotion and memory. Some of the structures include: hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia
What is the limbic system
A research finding that appears to be universally true across cultures, as opposed to a finding that is only valid within a given culture.
What is an etic?
This narcotic leads to physiological dependence and developmental of tolerance. Derivatives are morphine, heroine, and codeine.
What is opium?
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
What is Humanistic Theory
This Cluster B disorder is characterized by instability in relationships, self-image, and affect, along with impulsivity.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses
The tendency of participants to act differently from normal in a research study because they know they are being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
What are amphetamines?
Lawrence Kohlberg founded this theory
What is Theory of Moral Development?
This personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression.
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?
This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language
What is Broca's Aphasia?
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated.
What is quasi experimental?
A Neurological disorder resulting from excessive use of antipsychotic drugs. Side effects can occur months to years after treatment has been initiated or has stopped.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
Albert Bandura maintains that learning is facilitated by modeling and observational learning
What is social learning theory?
To diagnose PTSD, symptoms must persist beyond this time frame after the traumatic event.
What is one month?