Psychological Disorders & Treatments
The medical term for "depression."
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
What is adrenaline?
This type of photoreceptor is responsible for colour vision.
What are cones?
This term describes a general state spanning more than one emotion.
The opposite of sensitization.
What is habituation?
This theory of psychotherapy prefers the term clients rather than patients.
What is humanistic theory?
This is the third most common cause of preventable death in the United States.
What is alcohol?
This section of the ear contains the three smallest bones in the body.
What is the middle ear?
This is the highest level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
What is self-actualization?
This brain network is associated with "mind wandering" and general unhappiness.
What is the default mode network?
Low activity in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex are characteristic of this disorder.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
One benefit of regular exercise is neurogenesis in this region of the brain.
What is the hippocampus?
What is retinal disparity?
This contemporary theory of emotion involves cognitive assessments based on individual experiences and values.
What is appraisal theory?
This schedule of reinforcement is considered the most effective in operant conditioning.
Lead contamination is a common risk factor for this disorder.
What is ADHD?
Commitment, Control, and Challenge are considered the three Cs of this trait.
What is hardiness?
This type of sensory receptor is replaced every four to six weeks.
What are olfactory receptors?
Worrying and catastrophizing are associated with this region of the brain.
What is the anterior cingulate cortex?
Sleep spindles and K-complexes only occur in this stage of sleep.
What is Stage 2 N-REM?
This theory suggests that psychological disorder develops from a genetic predisposition on top of stressful life events.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
This percentage of people continue smoking after the first try.
What is 50%?
This theory of perception states that touch pathways compete with those for pain.
What is gate theory?
This gut hormone is released to communicate satiety to the hindbrain.
What is cholecystokinin (CCK)?
Abuse of this psychoactive drug may result in serotonin syndrome.
What is MDMA (ecstasy)?