Personality develops from internal experiences & individual feelings of basic worth. People are innately good with a positive drive toward self-fulfillment.
Humanistic Theory
100
Conditioning that occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response.
Classical conditioning
100
The region of your brain is used for planning, judgment, higher reasoning and voluntary movement
Frontal Lobe
100
This theory states people are motivated to meet their needs for achievement only when basic, physiological needs have been satisfied
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
100
This is characterized by a general loss of contact with reality, including hallucinations and delusions.
Schizophrenia
200
States that unconscious mental forces interact with and influence our thoughts, feelings and behavior. Unconscious conflicts that began in childhood create psychological disorders.
Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Theory
200
A type of operant conditioning that increases a response and makes it more likely to continue
Positive Reinforcement
200
Branch of the Autonomic Nervous System responsible for the fight or flight response, including increased heart rate, sweating and breathing fast.
Sympathetic Nervous System
200
Observational learning plays an importnat role in personality according to this researcher and theorist.
Alfred Bandura
200
This is characterized by a long-lasting low mood that interferes with the ability to function, feel pleasure, or maintain interest in life.
Major Depressive Disorder
300
Emphasizes objective, observable environmental influences on overt behavior
Behavioral Theory
300
The sleep cycle is _______ legnth of time.
90 Minutes
300
Any effect on health or behavior that is caused by false or sham treatment.
Placebo Effect
300
Showing someone love and acceptance regardless of what he or she does
Unconditional Positive Regard
300
Anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive anxiety related thoughts and actions designed to decrease anxiety is __________.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
400
Focuses on how natural selection through survival of the fittest contributes to our current behavior and mental processes
Evolutionary Theory
400
The 3 functions of short-term memory.
1. Temporarily hold new information
2. Hold information retrieved from long-term memory
3. Decide which information to send to long-term memory
400
The phenomenon that occurs when someone is continuously under stress for a prolonged period of time, and his immune system becomes depleted and he gets sick.
General Adaptation Syndrome
400
For this personality theorist, psychoticism was one of the three basic personality traits.
Hans Eysenck
400
This is characterized by a sudden period of extreme fear, high autonomic arousal and physiological symptoms such as rapid heart-beat, without a specific trigger.
Panic Disorder
500
Emphasizes the influence of social interactions and cultural determinants on behavior and mental processes
Sociocultural Theory
500
Attention, retention, motor reproduction, and reinforcement are necessary for this type of learning to occur.
Observational Learning
500
A child in this stage of cognitive development could understand that when something is taken apart, it can be put back together.
Concrete Operational
500
Viewing yourself as being in control of what happens in your life.
Internal Locus of Control
500
This is characterized by 2 or more distinct personalities in the same person at different times.