The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is Psychologist?
100
The part of fibers at one end of a neuron that receives messages from other neurons.
What is axon?
100
Biological processes that occurs regularly on approximately a 24 hour cycle.
What is circadian rhythms
100
Suggests symptoms of abnormal behavior are rooted in physiological causes
What is Medical perspective
100
Relies on drugs and other medical procedures to improve psychological functioning
What is Biomedical therapy
200
The idea that behavior is caused primarily by choices that are made freely by the individual.
What is free will?
200
The study of the effects of the heredity on behavior.
What is behavioral genetics?
200
Sleep occupying 20% of an adult's sleeping time, characterized by increased heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate; erections; eye movements; and the experience of dreaming
What is REM
200
A persistent, unwanted thought or idea that keeps recurring
What is Obsession
200
Create unpleasant reactions to stimuli that an individual previously enjoyed
What is Aversive conditioning
300
Research in which existing data, such as census documents,college records, and newspaper clippings, are examined to test a hypothesis
What is archival research?
300
The space between two nurons
What is synapse?
300
Drugs that influence a person's emotions, perceptions, and behavior.
What is psychoactive drugs?
300
3 Major depression symptoms
What are Worthless feelings, Loneliness, Crying,
Sleep disturbance, and Suicide.
300
Short term therapy that focuses on current social relationships and interpersonal issues.
What is Interpersonal therapy
400
Name all the five perspectives.
What is neuroscience, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive and humanistic perspective?
400
The part of the nervous system that controls involuntary movement.
What is autonomic division?
400
Anxiety and pain reduction, apathy, difficulty in concentration, slowed speech, decreased physical activity, drooling, itching, eurphoria, nausea.
What is the effects of Morphine?
400
Exaggerated sense of self-importance
What is Narcissistic personality disorder
400
Movement of former mental patients out of institutions and into the community
What is Deinstitutionalization
500
An early approach to psychology that concentrated on what the mind does-the functions of the mental activity-and the role of behavior in allowing people to adapt to their environments.
What is functionalism?
500
The part of the brain that is responsible for the most sophisticated information.
What is cerebral cortex?
500
The highest percentage of non- drinkers between males and females?
What is Men.
500
Urge to repeatedly carry out some act that seems strange and unreasonable, even to the individual who experiences them
What is Narcissistic personality disorder
500
Treatment approaches that teach people to think in more adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognitions about the world and themselves.