Parts of the Whole
A therapy: Free association, interpret latent dream content, unconscious drives
What is Psychoanalysis/Psychodynamic Therapy?
These antidepressant drugs are commonly given to treat major depressive disorder
What are SSRIs?
A type of memory stored in the cerebellum that helps us not fall off a bike
What is a Procedural Memory?
Conditioning where our actions are associated with their consequence
What is Operant Conditioning?
This type of intelligence increases as one gets older
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
A system: Amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus
What is the Limbic System?
Exposure therapies treat this kind of disorder by exposing people to things they fear
What are Phobias?
An immediate, brief memory of a visual image that lasts no more than half a second
What is an Iconic Memory?
The bell in Pavlov’s dog classical conditioning experiment
What is a Conditioned Stimulus?
An example of this reinforcement schedule is a weekly paycheck
What is a Fixed Interval Schedule
A stage: Egocentrism, pretend play, speaking in sentences
What is the Preoperational Stage?
This class of therapy would have people restructure their catastrophizing thoughts into more positive ways of thinking
What is Cognitive Therapy?
After forgetting to bring a shopping list with milk, eggs, flour, and sugar to the store, you are more likely to forget to buy eggs and flour.
What is the Serial Position Effect?
For example, spanking a child would be this (Positive/negative, reinforcement/punishment)
What is Positive Punishment?
An early time in an organism’s life where exposure to certain stimuli allows normal development
What is a Critical Period?
An organ: cochlea, basilar membrane, semicircular canals
What is the Ear?
Therapists echoing, restating, and seeking clarification of what the client expresses is an example of this part of Rogers’ Client-Centered Therapy
What is Active Listening?
Calling your new friend by your old friend’s name is an example of this type of retrieval failure
What is Proactive Interference?
The reappearance of the conditioned response after a rest period or period of lessened response
What is Spontaneous Recovery?
It includes personality traits and behaviors, and it doesn’t change over time
What is Temperament?
A stage: Alpha waves, hypnagogic hallucinations, slowed heartbeat
What is NREM-1?
Antipsychotic drugs block this neurotransmitter to dampen responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli, preventing hallucinations
What is Dopamine?
The inability to remember where existing knowledge was acquired
What is Source Amnesia?
For example, a baby is first rewarded for crawling, then for standing, then for taking a few steps, then for walking.
What is Shaping?
Culturally determined timetable for milestones of life, like a marriage or retirement
What is a Social Clock?