Biological Bases of Behavior
This type of psychoactive drug increases nervous system activity
What are stimulants?
This theory of perception says that we process things first as a whole idea and then break it down into smaller parts
What is top-down processing?
This type of study is often used to research development because it studies the same group of people over a long period of time.
What is longitudinal study?
This type of attribution leads to people blaming/ explaining behavior on external circumstances
This anxiety disorders is a fear of social situations (ex: using public transport, being in open places, etc)
What is Agoraphobia?
This part of the nervous system is responsible for voluntary movement and has sensory and motor neurons.
What is the somatic nervous system?
This type of heuristic is when people make judgments based on their lived experience (like a stereotype)
What is representative heuristic?
This stage of development focuses on when babies learn depth perception (this pairs with a famous experiment)
What is visual cliff?
This type of grouping represents a desire for harmony within the group leading to everyone going along with the same thinking, ignoring other possibilities or bad ideas
What is group think?
This negative symptom of Schizophrenia is characterized by the lack of ability to show emotions.
What is flat affect?
This part of the brain is in charge of episodic and somantic memory.
What is the Hippocampus? (If you saw a Hippo on campus, you would remember it!)
A person with this type of amnesia forgets old information (amnesia working backwards), this is generally linked to traumatic brain injuries or neurodegenerative diseases.
What is retrograde amnesia?
This type of conditioning focuses on involuntary behaviors and emotions (pavlov)
What is classical conditioning?
This explanation of personality focuses on a person having three separate layers- the id, superego, and ego.
What is the psychodynamic explanation?
This type of treatment, sometimes used for extreme depression, sends electricity to induce minor seizures to "reboot" the brain
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
This type of hormone makes you hungry.
What is ghrelin? (being hungry makes you into a gremlin hehe)
This idea within intelligence states that IQ has steadily risen over the past 80 years (likely due to healthcare and access to education)
What is the FLYNN effect?
These external agents can cause abnormal prenatal development (generally alcohol, drugs, etc)
What are teratogens?
This theory of motivation states that humans seek optimum levels of arousal (some anxiety can improve your performance, but too much can cause it to decrease)
This psychological perspective would explain a disorder's origin as maladaptive thinking and emotions and would provide treatment through cognitive restructuring.
What is the cognitive perspective?
This theory of color vision says that complimentary colors process in ganglion cells, explaining why we see an "after-image"
What is opponent- process theory?
This type of long-term memory requires conscious effort and is broken down into episodic and semantic.
What is explicit?
This stage within Piaget's stages of development is the period in which children begin using pretend play and mental symbols (ages 2-7 years)
What is pre-operational stage?
When two opposing thoughts conflict w/ each other, causing discomfort.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
This side effect of some schizophrenia medications can cause hand tremors from lack of dopamine
What is tardive dyskinesia?