Brain and Nervous System
This part of the neuron receives incoming signals.
What are dendrites?
Increasing behavior by adding a reward.
What is positive reinforcement?
Memory system that stores information for years.
What is long-term memory?
Theory that personality is made up of five broad traits (OCEAN).
What is the Big Five Personality traits?
Body's tendency to maintain internal balance.
What is homeostasis?
This brain structure is involved in fear and emotional processing.
What is the amygdala?
Learning by observing others.
What is observational learning?
Memory system lasting seconds.
What is short-term memory?
The part of personality driven by instincts and pleasure according to Freud.
What is the id?
Motivation driven by external rewards or punishments.
The part of the neuron that sends signals away to other cells.
What is the axon or terminal?
Type of conditioning in which behavior is increased or decreased by the consequence that follows it.
What is operant conditioning?
Process of storing information.
What is encoding?
Mental strategies used to reduce anxiety (like denial or repression).
What are defense mechanisms?
Motivation driven by internal satisfaction.
What is intrinsic motivation?
Hormone system involved in slower, long-term stress response.
What is the endocrine system?
A stimulus that naturally triggers a response (like food for salivation).
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
False memories created by misleading information.
What is the misinformation effect.
Part of personality that balances the demands of the id and reality, according to Freud.
What is the ego?
Theory that states we perform best at optimal levels of arousal.
What is arousal theory?
The "fight or flight" response is controlled by this nervous system division.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Psychologist known for behaviorism and reinforcement principles.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Brain structure critical for forming new long-term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This theory states that unconscious conflicts shape behavior.
This theory states that behavio is driven by biological need to maintain balance.
What is drive reduction theory?