Behavioral
Unconscious learning method in which an automatic response is paired with a specific stimuli.
What is classical conditioning?
Neurotransmitter is often associated with pleasure and reward.
What is dopamine?
Form of memory that allows a person to temporarily hold a limited amount of information at the ready for immediate mental use.
What is working memory/short term memory?
Biological requirements for human survival such as air, nourishment, warmth, excretion, etc.
What are physiological needs?
The father of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The ability to distinguish between one stimulus and similar stimuli.
What is stimulus discrmination?
Area of the brain that controls language comprehension and meaning.
What is Wernicke's Area?
Theory that stimulating events trigger feelings and physical reactions that occur at the same time.
What is Cannon-Bard theory of Emotion?
The desire to contribute to the well-being of others and make a positive impact on the world.
What is altruism?
An unconscious error in writing, speech, or action caused by unacceptable impulses exposing the individual's true wishes or feelings.
What is a freudian slip?
Psychologist associated with the Little Albert experiment, which demonstrated classical conditioning with fear.
Who is John B. Watson?
Hormone released in response to stress, preparing the body for the fight-or-flight response.
What is epinephrine/adrenaline?
The phenomenon where a reward decreases motivation for a task that was originally enjoyable.
What is the overjustification effect?
The founder of humanistic psychology.
Who is Carl Rogers?
A phase of dormant sexual feelings from age 6 to puberty.
What is latent stage?
A small box designed to block out external stimuli for the purpose of conditioning an animals behavior.
What is a Skinner Box?
The generation of new neurons in the brain.
What is neurogenesis?
The concept that language determines human thought, as well as thought processes such as categorization, memory, and perception.
What is the Linguistic Determinism?
In psychotherapy, actively listening to a client and then summarizing what the client has said in their own words.
What is reflective listening?
Transferring of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motives.
What is sublimation?
A phenomenon whereby a conditioned stimulus acquires the ability to elicit a conditioned response without ever being directly paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
What is second/higher order conditioning?
Gland that secretes melatonin and regulates sleep-wake cycles and circadian rhythms.
What is the Pineal Gland?
Deep brain structures involved in motor movement which facilitate formation of our procedural memories.
What are the Basal Ganglia?
When your ideal self and self-image are the same or similar.
What is congruence?
Young girls' impulses involve sexual feelings for her father and a desire to compete with her mother.
What is the Electra Complex?