Clinical Psychology
a disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure
What is major depressive disorder?
A generalized belief about a group of people
What is a stereotype?
The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
What is a fetus?
the type of learning based on rewards and punishments
What is operant conditioning?
A testable prediction or theory
What is a hypothesis?
A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression
What is Schizophrenia?
The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
An optimal period early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development
What is a critical period?
the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system
What is a sensory memory?
a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks
What is narcolepsy?
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
What is unconditional positive regard?
The principle that frustration- the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal- creates anger, which can generate aggression
What is the frustration-aggression principle?
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
What is a schema?
Which psychologist dealt with the dogs and salivation experiement?
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
The part of the brain associated with fear
What is the amygdala?
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them
What is the mere exposure effect?
This developmental psychologist spent his life searching for the answer to how our mind grows
Who is Jean Piaget?
Who is BF Skinner?
What is ghrelin?
The study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change
What is epigenetics?
The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives
What is groupthink?
Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
What are teratogens?
How many items can be held at once in our short term memory?
What is seven?
The 8 multiple intelligences
What is musical, interpersonal, bodily kinesthetic, verbal linguistic, logical mathematical, naturalistic, intrapersonal, and visual spatial?