Brain & Perception
An ongoing debate regarding the primary influence on a person's life
What is nature vs nurture?
Theory of learning based on association (conditioned/unconditioned responses)
What is classical conditioning?
According to Sigmund Freud's personality theory, these 3 parts make up a person's personality.
What are the id, ego and super ego?
behaviorist famous for working with dogs
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Correlation does not equal...
What is Causation?
The part of the brain that is responsible for vital functions, such as breathing.
Want is the brain stem?
This term generally refers to "thinking processes" and encompasses perception, language development, learning, intelligence, personality development, memory
What is cognition?
This type of personality assessment describes profiles using 4 letters (example: ENTJ)
What is the Myer's Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?
Behaviorist known for his theory of operant conditioning
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This neurological disorder is categorized as inattentive, hyperactive or combined
What is ADHD?
The part of the brain mainly concerned with balance and fine motor movement.
What is the cerebellum?
Theory of learning based on the concept of reward and punishment
What is operant conditioning?
These traits are part of the Big 5 Personality Trait theory.
What are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
This psychoanalyst used free association to unlock a person's subconscious
Who was Sigmund Freud?
symptoms of depression (at least 3)
sadness, changes in eating or sleeping habits, loss of interest (anhedonia), isolation, loss motivation, crying, self harm, suicidal thoughts
The part of the neuron that receives incoming messages (signals).
What are dendrites?
The bell in Pavlov's famous dog experiment
What is the conditioned stimulus?
A low scoring person on this subscale is emotionally stable, even tempered, and not prone to sadness or anxiety
What is the neuroticism subscale?
Known for the creation of Individual psychology, this psychoanalyst believed that people were motivated by social interest, birth order and the inferiority complex.
What was Alfred Adler?
Counseling that integrates psychological theories and the truth of scripture
What is Integrated Christian Counseling
The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information
What is perception?
The process of making an undesirable behavior go away
What is extinction?
According to Gordan Allport, these types of traits are often used to describe one's personality.
What are central traits?
This psychoanalyst's theories of archetypes and opposing forces within personality were incorporated into the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Who is Carl Jung?
An attitude that acknowledges you are always growing and changing
What is a Growth Mindset
The part of the brain that is often called the "emotional brain" and contains the thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala and the hippocampus
What is the limbic system?
These tricks can assist learning by facilitating memory retrieval and can involve rhythm, song, poetry, alphabetizing and association
What are mnemonic devices?
The 5 love languages
What are acts of service, physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time and receiving gifts
Existentialist who emphasized the individual's search for meaning and finding "freedom" despite circumstances.
Who was Vicktor Frankl?
strategies for improving sleep quality (name at least 3)
1. bedtime routine (go to bed and wake up about the same time) 2. no devices before bed 3. cool, dark environment 4. exercise during the day 5. avoid sugary foods before bed 6. limit caffeine 7. relaxation, deep breathing
Name the 4 lobes of the cerebral cortex
frontal
parietal
temporal
occipital
The process of learning complex behavior in phases, each phase getting closer to the desired result
What is successive approximation?
Men typically have lower scores on this personality trait than women.
What is the Agreeableness trait?
Humanist who theorized that humans are motivated to fulfill needs which are arranged on a hierarchy.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This social psychology concept was developed after the death of Kitty Genovese.
What is the bystander effect?
5 techniques used in advertising to get our attention
What are contrast, repetition, movement, motives and expectancy?
This researcher demonstrated that individuals could learn by observing others in his famous "Bobo doll" experiment.
Who was Alfred Bandura?
The 4 dichotomies of the Myers-Briggs type Indicator
What are: Sensing - Intuition
Introversion - Extroversion
Thinking - Feeling
Judging - Perceiving
Behaviorist famous for his experiment with "Little Albert" showing that fears are a learned behavior.
J.B.Watson
A social psychology phenomenon whereby groups tend to make decisions that are more extreme compared to the original thoughts of individual group members
What is group polarization?