Psychology 101
This type of learning occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a response due to repeated pairing, as shown in Pavlov’s dog experiments.
What is classical conditioning?
Among all the newborn senses, this one is most developed at birth and plays a crucial role in bonding and calming infants.
What is sense of touch?
This debate asks whether human behavior is shaped more by genetic inheritance or by life experience.
What is nature vs. nurture?
Comparing your life to curated online posts, leading to anxiety and low self-worth, is a negative effect of this digital phenomenon.
What is social media use?
A 22-year-old woman becomes extremely anxious at the thought of speaking in class. She avoids all public settings and fears embarrassment, even if praised by others.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This man is known as the "father of psychoanalysis" and developed theories about the unconscious, defense mechanisms, and psychosexual stages.
What is Sigmund Freud?
This term refers to any harmful substance or agent—like alcohol, drugs, or certain infections—that can interfere with prenatal development and cause birth defects.
What is teratogens?
This branch of psychology focuses on observable behaviors and how they are learned through conditioning.
What is behaviorism?
This mental health condition can result from chronic stress and is marked by hopelessness, loss of interest in activities, and changes in sleep or appetite.
What is Major Depressive Disorder
This client, a 21-year-old college student, has been excelling academically but is constantly worried something terrible will happen to his family. He prays for 30 minutes before leaving the house each day and checks every doorknob three times before he can go to bed.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
This type of memory temporarily holds and manipulates information, such as doing math in your head or remembering a phone number long enough to dial it.
What is working memory?
This parenting style is marked by high responsiveness and high demands, and is often linked to the healthiest child outcomes, including social competence and independence.
What is authoritative parenting?
Maslow believed people must first feel this—such as at home or school—before they can form healthy relationships.
What is security/ saftey needs
This psychological strategy helps manage stress by grounding attention in the present moment and reducing reactivity.
What is mindfulness?
A 40-year-old woman presents with partial paralysis in her legs but shows no signs of neurological damage. She recently witnessed a violent car crash. Doctors say her symptoms don't match any known medical condition.
What is Conversion Disorder?
He placed rats in boxes to demonstrate operant conditioning using reinforcement and punishment.
What is B.F. Skinner?
This type of attachment, identified in the Strange Situation experiment, is marked by a child who is distressed when the parent leaves but is easily soothed upon return.
What is secure attachment?
In operant conditioning, this form of reinforcement involves adding a desirable stimulus after a behavior to increase its likelihood.
What is positive reinforcement?
This biological system activates during a stress response, increasing heart rate, dilating pupils, and releasing adrenaline. Chronic activation can damage health over time.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
This 28-year-old man feels that people at work are secretly conspiring to fire him. Despite no evidence and others assuring him otherwise, he’s convinced his ideas are correct. He has no hallucinations or erratic behavior.
What is Delusional Disorder?
This behaviorist believed that all behavior is learned
What is John B. Watson?
Children raised in households where rules are absent, and indulgence is high, may struggle with authority and exhibit egocentric behavior due to this parenting style.
What is permissive parenting?
Nothing can be achieved without this trait—it’s the ability to stay focused, delay gratification, and follow through even when motivation fades.
What is discipline?
This level of Maslow’s Hierarchy is where a person seeks personal growth, creativity, and fulfillment—not just survival or approval.
What is self-actualization?
A young child frequently visits the emergency room with bizarre and hard-to-diagnose symptoms. His mother insists on extensive tests, though doctors suspect the symptoms may be intentionally induced.
What is Factitious Disorder