Psychology 101
What part of the brain is responsible for higher-level thinking, planning, and decision-making?
What is the frontal lobe/Prefrontal cortex?
This type of crime is more serious than a misdemeanor and can result in more than a year in prison.
What is a felony?
Excessive, persistent worry and tension characterize which type of disorder?
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
When police take someone into custody because they believe that person committed a crime, it’s called this.
What is arrest?
Chemicals that transmit signals between neurons are called what?
What are neurotransmitters?
When a person helps someone else commit a crime but doesn’t do it themselves, they are known as this.
What is an accomplace?
What disorder involves alternating periods of depression and mania.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This amendment protects people from being searched without a warrant.
What is the 4th ammendment?
The body’s “fight-or-flight” response is controlled by which division of the nervous system?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
In a criminal trial,what's it called when a group of citizens gather to determine whether there is a basis for criminal charges to be filed against the defendant .
What is a grand jury?
According to Freud, this part of personality operates on the “reality principle.”
What is the ego?
This constitutional right ensures that you cannot be tried twice for the same crime.
What is double jeopardy?
This type of conditioning, studied by B.F. Skinner, uses rewards and punishments to shape behavior.
What is operant conditioning?
After being arrested, this hearing is when the accused person appears before a judge and is told the charges against them.
What is an arraignment?
The “Big Five” personality traits can be remembered with the acronym OCEAN. Name any 3 traits. (bonus points if you can name all 5)
What is Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism?
This legal concept means that someone cannot be held criminally responsible because they were not of sound mind when the crime was committed.
What is insanity defense/plea?
The belief that we have control over our own lives rather than being driven by external factors is called what?
What is Internal locus of control?
The mental state or intent behind committing a crime is known by this Latin term.
According to Erik Erikson, adolescence is primarily concerned with resolving which conflict?
What is Identity vs. Role confusion
What is the legal principle that prevents a person from being held in prison without charges filed against them?
What is habius corpus?