Vocab
the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
Psychology
Mode 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
Focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud
Periodic, natural loss of consciousness--as distinct from unconsciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation.
Sleep
Need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
Motivation
Characterized by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotional regulation, or behaviour.
Mental illness
Median of 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
2.5
Father of classical conditioning; Dogs
Ivan Pavlov
A split in consciousness, which allows some thought and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
Dissociation
The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal.
Need
pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them.
Schema
Mean of 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
2 2/3
Humanistic psychologist known for his "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of "self-actualization".
Abraham Maslow
False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.
Hallucinations
Notion that a physical need creates an aroused state that drives the organism to reduce the need by satisfying it.
Drive-Reduction theory
Adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information.
Accommodation
A random procedure used to ensure that participants in a study have an equal chance of being assigned to a particular group or condition.
Random Assignment
Created first intelligence test for Parisian school children - created concept of mental age.
Alfred Binet
A social interaction in which one person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.
Hypnosis
The regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level.
Homeostasis
A small depression in the central portion of the retina in which retinal cone cells are most concentrated and an image is focused most clearly.
Fovea
The set of all individuals, items, or data of interest; this is the group scientists will generalize.
Population
Conducted famous conformity experiment that required subjects to match lines.
Solomon Asch
The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
Delta Waves
Serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by a cycle of binging and compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting designed to undo or compensate for the effects of binge eating.
Bulimia Nervosa