The prominent school of thought in psychology in the decades leading up to the 1920s.
What is the science of mental life?
100
The discomfort and distress of discontinuing drug use.
What is withdrawal?
100
Patterns of thoughts, feelings, or actions that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional.
What is a psychological disorder?
100
A widely practiced integrative therapy method that seeks to alter the way people THINK and ACT.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
100
Chromosomes are threadlike structures made of DNA, which are complex molecules containing these biochemical units of heredity.
What are genes?
200
The two components of the autonomic nervous system that expend (arouse) and (calm) conserve energy. DOUBLE
What are sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems?
200
The type of conditioning that involves the pairing of a response and its consequence.
What is operant conditioning?
200
The key aspect in identifying someone as having a psychological disorder.
What is it causes them to be dysfunctional?
200
Therapy that is aimed at removing a HARMLESS stimulus by replacing a negative response with a positive one (ex: pairing an anxiety producing stimulus with a relaxation response).
What is exposure therapy?
200
A subfield of biology that studies the molecular structure and function of genes.
What is molecular genetics?
300
A statistical analysis that tells you the direction of a relationship between two variables but not the cause of influence (prediction WITHOUT causality)
What is correlation?
300
The oldest part and central core of the brain.
What is the brainstem?
300
Stress, mood-related perceptions and memories, and traumas are examples of this kind of influence on psychological disorders.
What are psychological?
300
Therapy that is aimed at removing a HARMFUL stimulus by replacing a positive response with a negative one (ex: pairing the stimuli of alcohol with a drug that produces a nauseating response).
What is aversive therapy?
300
An individual's characteristic reactivity and intensity.
What is temperament?
400
The overall group you will generalize your results to when conducting an experiment.
What is the population?
400
Factors that increase susceptibility to suggestion and recalling false memories during a forensic interview with a child.
What are focused questions, increased arousal at retrieval, and being younger?
400
Manual for classifying psychological disorders.
What is the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM-V?
400
A form of behavior therapy that pairs a trigger stimulus with a new response.
What is counterconditioning?
400
Your genetic code for life found in every cell of your body's nucleus.
What is genome?
500
Hindsight bias, overconfidence, and making order out of random events.
What are three phenomena that lead us to overestimate our intuition?
500
These neurons carry messages from the central nervous system to the rest of the body.
What are motor neurons?
500
Why would it or would it not be a good idea to classify someone as having a psychological disorder?
Would - describe, predict, treat, research OR Would not - negative effects of labeling and misclassification
500
Psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, and humanistic therapies are this type of therapy because they seek to understand and be aware of an individual's underlying motives and defenses.
What is insight therapy?
500
The new estimate of how much genetic similarity men and women share. (As a percentage)