Neuroscience
The part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for fight or flight response.
Sympathetic nervous system
Perceptual principles such as closure and figure-ground are examples of this type of psychology.
Gestalt psychology
This is a stage of Cognitive Development when children are egocentric.
Preoperational stage
A type of psychologist that studies how people perform in the workplace
Industrial Organizational Psychologist
Psychodyanamic approach that asks people to verbalize their thoughts & respond to prompts
Free Association
The sleep/wake cycle which is about 24 hours.
Circadian rhythm
A type of creative thinking that generates many different ideas.
Divergent thinking.
The psychosocial stage of development that you are currently in.
Identity vs. role confusion stage
Personality trait when you tend to experience negative emotions.
Neuroticism
Cogntive Therapy approach that focuses on changing cognitive distortions
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
The experience of sensation which is usually experienced in a different sensory system.
Synesthesia
Taking in new information and incorporating it into existing schemas.
Assimilation
A type of learning where you get food sickness and later avoid that food.
Taste Aversion Learning
Motivational theory that focuses on the role of rewards
Incentive Theory
When someone re-experiences a stressful event
PTSD
Where transduction occurs for vision
Retina
A cognitive bias in which you believe future independent events are affected by past events
Gambler's Fallacy
A learned response to a stimulus.
Conditioned response
When you judge someone's personality rather than considering circumstances
Fundamental Attitrubtion Error
Intense fear of specific social situations
Agoraphobia
Fovea
When someone is given misleading information after an event that, in turn, distorts their memory of that event.
Misinformation Effect
An ecological system that includes cultural events
Macrosystem
This theory outlines 2 mains type of persuasion: central & peropheral
Elaboration Likelihood Model
A positive manifestion of schizophrenia where someone has false beliefs