Research
This is a testable prediction that gives direction in research.
What is a hypothesis?
This disorder is characterized by repetitive, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts and repetitive behaviors.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Rapid and automatic emotional responses may result from the routing of sensory input through the thalamus directly to this structure.
In Pavlov's experiments, this term defined salivation to the taste of food.
What is an unconditioned response?
Abraham Maslow proposed that we are all motivated by this.
What is a hierarchy of needs?
This describes a direct relationship where two factors increase or decrease together.
What is a positive correlation?
The first major psychological therapy is attributed to this man.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This term refers to the reabsorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by a sending neuron.
What is reuptake?
In this form of learning, behavior is influenced by its consequences.
What is operant conditioning?
This is a factor defined by Spearman to signify a general intelligence that underlies successful performance on a wide variety of tasks.
What is g?
A test that measures or predicts what it is supposed to measure is said to have a high degee of this.
What is validity?
Symptoms of this problem can include racing heart, difficulty breathing, dizziness, sweating, and a fear of a loss of control.
What is a panic attack?
These two structures make up the central nervous system.
What is the brain and the spinal cord?
This method is used in learning to strengthen a behavior.
What is reinforcement?
This person's study of obedience found that even ordinary people, who are not usually hostile, can become agents of destruction.
What is Milgram?
This is the phrase we use to signify the ongoing debate as to whether aspects of ourselves such as personality is influenced by biology or environment.
What is nature vs nurture?
Aaron Beck developed this type of therapy focused on challenging people's automatic negative thoughts.
This brain structure regulates physical coordination and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
In classical conditioning, this is a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus.
This term was coined after studying observers' lack of response for Kitty Genovese's murder.
What is the bystander effect?
This research method can be used to describe psychologists watching the behavior of lion societies in the jungle.
What is a specific phobia?
The growth and maturation of this brain structure aids in the construction of detailed memories in children.
What is the hippocampus?
This is sometimes referred to as short-term memory's processing manager.
What is working memory?
The study by this person found that individuals conformed to a group's judgment about the length of lines even when the group was clearly incorrect.
Who is Solomon Asch?