Unit 1: Biological Bases of Behavior
This part of the neuron receives incoming signals.
What are dendrites?
The inability to see a problem from a new perspective is called this.
What is mental set?
What is operant conditioning?
Adjusting behavior to match a group is called this.
What is conformity?
This disorder is characterized by persistent sadness and a loss of interest.
What is major depressive disorder?
This neurotransmitter is primarily involved in reward and motivation.
What is dopamine?
This type of memory temporarily holds information for processing.
What is working memory?
This stage in Piaget's theory involves object permanence.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
This theory explains how people experience discomfort when their behaviors conflict with their attitudes, often leading them to change one to match the other.
What is cognitive dissonance?
This neurotransmitter is often low in individuals with depression.
Damage to this lobe would most directly affect visual processing.
What is the occipital lobe?
This memory error occurs when new information interferes with old information.
What is retroactive interference?
This type of learning occurs by observing others.
What is observational learning?
Attributing others' behavior to personality rather than situation is this error.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
This therapy focuses on changing maladaptive thought patterns.
This brain structure regulates homeostasis and controls the endocrine system through the pituitary gland.
This memory system has unlimited capacity and duration, but information must be encoded to be stored there.
What is long-term memory?
According to Erikson, adolescents struggle with this psychological conflict.
What is identity vs. role confusion?
This concept explains improved performance in the presence of others on simple tasks.
What is social facilitation?
This disorder involves alternating between manic and depressive episodes.
What is bipolar disorder?
In split brain patients, information presented to the left visual field is processed by this hemisphere, which typically cannot produce verbal responses/
What is the right hemisphere?
This concept explains how memories are strengthened by retrieval rather than restudying.
What is the testing effect?
This schedule of reinforcement produces the highest rate of responding and is most resistant to extinction.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
This psychological phenomenon explains how individuals are less likely to help in emergencies when others are present.
What is the bystander effect?
This model explains disorders at the interaction between biological, psychological, and social factors.
What is the biopsychosocial model?