Motivation
Motivation by personal satisfaction.
What is intrinsic motivation?
Our biological clock that lasts 25 hours.
What is the circadian rhythm?
The false sense that you have already experienced a current situation.
What is deja vu?
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
What is schizophrenia?
The neurotransmitter that, if you have too much of, can cause schizophrenia. Antipsychotics block this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
Motivation because you will receive an award?
What is the incentive theory of motivation?
The stage of sleep in which our dreams occur.
What is stage 4 (REM Sleep)?
Memories of facts, including names, images, and events.
False beliefs, often paranoid or grandeur.
Therapy that applies learning principle to elimination of unwanted behaviors
What is behavior therapy?
Motivated by outside influences.
What is extrinsic motivation?
Bursts of brain activity that occur during stage 2 of sleep.
What are sleep spindles?
The first step in memory; information is translated into a form that enables it to enter our memory system.
What is encoding?
A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening and empathy.
What is client-centered therapy?
Motivation by wanting to reach full potential.
What is the humanistic theory of motivation?
The type of waves going through our brains in the deepest stages of sleep.
What are delta waves?
The disruptive effect of new knowledge on old knowledge.
What is retroactive interference?
Condition of having amnesia for your current life and starting a new life somewhere else
What is fugue?
Used to treat bipolar disorder?
What is lithium?
Motivation by physiological needs/desires.
What is the arousal theory of motivation?
The technology used to monitor brain waves during sleep.
What is the electroencephalograph (EEG)?
The person known for the discovery of the forgetting curve.
Who is Herman Ebbinghaus?
Disorders characterized by physical symptoms for which no known physical cause exists.
What are somatoform disorders?
Trying to understand why a patient suffers from certain symptoms by looking at events from their childhoods or from their relationships.
What is psychodynamic therapy?