Psychologists
Made a lasting impact on the evolutionionary perspective of psychology.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Psychological disorder involving significant depressive episodes and depressed characteristics.
What is major depressive disorder?
Neurotransmitter that is involved with sleeping, mood, attention, and learning.
What is Serotonin?
In operant conditioning. A consequence that decreases the likelihood that a behavior will occur.
What is punishment?
Tactics the ego uses to reduce anxiety by unconsciously disorting reality.
What are defense mechanisms?
Who is Erik Erikson?
Severe psychological disorder characterized by highly disordered thought processes.
What is schizophrenia?
Neurotransmitter that inhibits neurons from firing and calms the body down.
What is GABA?
Learning that occurs when an organism makes a connection between two events.
What is associative learning?
Freud's theraputic technique for analyzing an individual's unconscious thought.
What is psychoanalysis?
The founder of the eugenics movement; found a link between heredity and intelligence.
Who is Francis Galton?
Psychological disorder characterized by guiltlessness, law-breaking, exploitation of others, irresponsibility, and deceit.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Nerve cells that are activated both when an action is performed and when the organism observes the action.
What are mirror neurons?
Thorndike's law stating that behaviors followed by positive outcomes are strengthened while behaviors followed by negative outcomes are weakened.
What is the law of effect?
A boy's intense desire to replace his father and enjoy the affections of his mother.
What is the oedipus complex?
Researched hypnosis and created the "hidden observer" theory.
Who is Ernest Hilgard?
A psychological disorder in which a person experiences one or more bodily symptoms.
What is somatic symptom disorder?
Neurotransmitter that eliminates pain and is known as a natural opiate.
What are endorphins?
Rewarding successive approximations of a desired behavior.
What is shaping?
The structure of personality that serves as the harsh internal judge of our behavior; often called the conscience.
What is the superego?
Created the phrase about memory, "The magical number 7, plus or minus two."
Who is George A. Miller?
Dissociative disorder characterized by extreme memory loss caused by psychological stress.
What is dissociative amnesia?
Neurotransmitter involved with love and social bonding.
What is Oxytocin?
Species-specific biological pedisposition to learn in certain ways but not others.
What is preparedness?
Neofreudian idea that the deepest layer of the unconscious mind is shared by all humans due to their ancestral past.
What is collective unconsious?