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continuous.
variable ratio.
partial dynamic.
fixed interval.
What is partial dynamic?
--is not a schedule of reinforcement
positive reinforcement.
negative reinforcement.
negative punishment.
What is positive punishment?
It's the mechanism by which experts in a scientific field carefully screen the work of their colleagues, which adds legitimacy and trust to research literature.
What is peer review?
It's the lobe of the cerebral cortex associated with higher cognitive functions, such as planning, inhibiting impulses and emotion, language production, and voluntary movement.
What is the frontal lobe?
Know the four lobes of the cerebral cortex, the parts of the limbic system, and their relative functions.
"the study of the mind": the field of study covering the scientific approach to understanding human behavior
What is psychology?
GABA.
Glutamate.
Serotonin.
Testosterone.
What is testosterone?
--is not a neurotransmitter
auditory.
haptic.
olfactory.
visual.
What is the gustatory system?
Also known as "just noticeable," it designates the smallest change in stimuli that humans can perceive.
What is the difference threshold?
Know sensation and perception and terms of thresholds.
It's the primary employment setting for the majority of professional psychologists.
What are universities?
"almost a trial of proof": a research design method that aims to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between a dependent and independent variable but lacks random assignment of participants to groups
classical conditioning.
observational learning.
shaping.
active conditioning.
operant conditioning.
vicarious learning.
What is active conditioning?
--is not a type of behavioral learning
pinna.
auditory canal.
cochlea.
What are ossicles?
It's the field of psychology concerned with how behaviors and psychological traits can have an effect on your physical health.
What is health psychology?
Review types of psychologists, fields of psychology.
They are photoreceptors that are sensitive to the different amplitudes of light, which is what allows us to brightness or darkeness.
What are rods?
"the opponent of that whom struggles for a prize": in neurobiology, a chemical that stops the action of a neurotransmitter
What is an antagonist?
multiple personality disorder.
substance use disorder.
schizophrenia.
generalized anxiety disorder.
What is multiple personality disorder?
--this is not a current DSM-5-TR diagnosis
Borderline.
Narcissistic.
Histrionic.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
This group of disorders in the DSM might be biologically best explained as the body's hypothalamus being overactive, since it's responsible for the "Four Fs."
What are Anxiety Disorders?
It's the part of the neuron produced by glial cells that primarily functions to speed up the neural impulse.
What is myelin sheath (or Schwann Cells)?
"The spirit of the time": the dominant intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of a particular era that may define how subjects are considered at that time.
What is a zeitgeist?
MDD
Bipolar Disorder I
OCD
Bipolar Disorder II
What is OCD?
--is not a mood disorder
Diffusion.
Moratorium.
Achievement.
What is identity foreclosure?
In statistical hypothesis testing, it's the statistical component that is increased when the sample size is increased in order to improve the likelihood of statistical significance of the findings.
What is statistical power?
It's the part of the brain responsible for emotional regulation (including aggression).
What is the amygdala?
"to give laws": research seeking general laws or principles that apply to a group by looking for patterns and similarities.
What is the nomothetic approach?