Biological Bases of Behavior
The part of the neuron where neurotransmitters are released.
What is the synaptic terminal or synapse?
The mental grouping of similar objects, events, or ideas.
What is a concept?
This parenting style is characterized by high demands but low responsiveness.
What is authoritarian parenting?
This occurs when individuals perform worse in groups due to reduced personal accountability.
What is social loafing?
This disorder is characterized by repetitive, unwanted thoughts and compulsive behaviors.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
This structure regulates hunger, thirst, and body temperature.
What is the hypothalamus?
This is the process by which new information is stored in memory.
What is encoding?
In operant conditioning, this increases the likelihood of a behavior by removing an unpleasant stimulus.
What is negative reinforcement?
This term describes the discomfort felt when a person’s attitudes and behaviors conflict.
What is cognitive dissonance?
This is a mood stabilizer often used to treat bipolar disorder.
What is lithium?
This neurotransmitter is involved in mood regulation and is linked to depression.
What is serotonin?
This phenomenon explains why we are more likely to remember emotionally significant events.
What is flashbulb memory?
This concept describes a time during development when a specific skill is most easily learned.
What is a critical period?
This theory explains how individuals use situational and dispositional factors to explain others' behavior.
What is attribution theory?
This condition involves physical symptoms like blindness or paralysis with no medical cause.
What is conversion disorder?
This brain structure processes emotions like fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
The inability to see a problem from a new perspective is known as this.
What is functional fixedness?
This developmental psychologist focused on the stages of psychosocial development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
This psychologist identified traits like introversion and extraversion as key to personality.
Who is Hans Eysenck?
This is the most common class of drugs used to treat depression.
What are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs?
These types of neurons carry messages from the body to the central nervous system.
What are sensory neurons?
This effect explains why repeated testing improves long-term retention.
What is the testing effect?
This reflex in newborns is triggered when the sole of the foot is stroked.
What is the Babinski reflex?
The bystander effect is less likely to occur when this condition is present.
What is perceived personal responsibility?
The state of exhaustion resulting from prolonged stress is known as this stage in the General Adaptation Syndrome.
What is the exhaustion stage?