Theories
Idea that a physiological need creates a drive that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
What is the Drive-reduction theory
Retaining facts and experiences that are known and can be consciously 'declared'
What is Explicit Memory
Many drugs of this type work by increasing the availability of neurotransmitters, such as norepinephrine and serotonin to elevate mood in patients experiencing depression and anxiety.
What are Antidepressant drugs, SSRI's
A condition of limited mental ability indicated by an IQ score below 70 and difficulty adapting to life's demands.
What is intellectual disability
Tendency for observers to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition when analyzing other's behavior.
What is the Fundamental Attribution error
We act to reduce discomfort felt when 2 of our thoughts are inconsistent when becoming aware that attitudes and actions don't match.
What is the Cognitive Dissonance theory
Judging likelihood of events based on the availability in memory; if come readily to mind, its presumed to be common.
What is the Availability Heuristic
Neural center that helps process explicit memories for storage.
What is the Hippocampus
Inability to form new memories.
What is Anterograde amnesia
The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness.
What is the Facial Feedback effect
The theory that views personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth.
What is the Humanistic theory
_____ _____ is the desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake; _____ _____ is the desire to perform a behavior to receive promised award/avoid threatened punishment.
What is Intrinsic motivation and Extrinsic motivation
_____ _____ is the frontal lobe area that helps control language expression by directing muscle movements involved in speech; ________ _____ is the temporal lobe area involved in language comprehension & expression.
What is Broca's areas and Wernicke's area
Disorder which patient alternates between states of depression and mania.
What is Bipolar I Disorder
Influence resulting from someone's desire to gain approval/ avoid disapproval.
What is Normative Social Influence
Theory that intelligence is based on a single factor and specific abilities, bridged by fluid and crystalized intelligence.
What is Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
What is Reciprocal Determinism
The path from the thalamus to the cortex then to the amygdala in order to process emotion using synthesis of information vs the more direct path from the thalamus to the amygdala to act on emotion instantly before conscious analysis.
What is the High Road and the Low Road of emotion processing
Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.
What are personality disorders
A popular integrative therapy that combines changing self-defeating thinking with changing behaviors.
What is Cognitive- Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious and importance of childhood experiences.
What are the Psychodynamic Theories
Type of exposure therapy associating a relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
What is Systematic Desensitization
Activity in one hemisphere of the brain enabling action in the opposite side of the body to carry out instruction.
What is Split-brain of the unconscious
Group of disorders marked by irrational ideas, distorted perceptions, and a loss of contact with reality.
What are Psychotic Disorders
A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.
What is Confirmation Bias