What
One's verbal ability and overall fund of knowledge
What is crystallized intelligence
Unusualness
Emotional distress
dangerousness
What is the Criteria for abnormal behavior
Figure-ground
Connectedness
Similarity
What are Gestalt Principles?
Dreams are the brain's way of making sense of random neural firings
What is activation-synthesis hypothesis?
Explain relationships among experimental finding that make them more understandable
What is a theory?
Pressures or demands placed upon an organism to adjust or adapt to the environment
What is stress?
Neurons relay messages from the senses to the brain/neurons relay information from brain to the body
Sensory, short term and long term memory.
What are stages of memory?
The environment, behaviors, and cognitive factors all play a role in personality, development
School of psychology that explores how we acquire knowledge about the world.
What is the cognitive school?
Specialized cells in sense organs that detect external stimuli
What are sensory receptors?
Process in which information is taken in through the senses
What is sensation?
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
Protective function
conserve energy
consolidate
memories
According to Freud, main reporting of the dream/ underlying meaning of the dream.
What is manifest/latent content?
Research intended to help those grieving the loss of a parent
What is applied research?
Systematic application of learning principles to strengthen adaptive behavior and weaken maladaptive behavior
What is behavior modification?
Cognitive therapy
Gestalt therapy
Humanistic Therapy
What are types of psycho-therapy?
In a neuron, takes in information, sends to this, and travels down this structure.
What is the dendrite/cell body/axon?
Movement on this side of the body is controlled by the this hemisphere by the way of this.
What is the right/left/corpus callosum?
Created the General Adaption Syndrome
Who is Seyle?
Help us make decisions and are based on our experiences.
What are heuristics?
Two most important concepts in operant conditioning.
What is reinforcement and punishment?
Transference Dream analysis resistance
What is psycho-analysis?
People become hypnotized because there are multiple levels of awareness that can become split off
What is neodissociation theory of hypnosis