This perspective believes in the ultimate goodness of humans, and in reaching our potential.
What is humanistic?
100
Cognitive dissonance occurs when there is a mismatch between our thoughts and our
What is actions?
100
Any chemical that alters moods and behaviors.
What is a drug?
100
A class of disorders characterized by extreme nervousness and worry.
What is anxiety?
100
The definition of psychology.
What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?
200
This area of the brain is responsible for morality, planning, and decision-making.
What is the frontal lobe?
200
Drive reduction theory says that we are motivated by our need to fulfill our biological
What is drives/needs?
200
A terrifying dream experience during Non-REM sleep.
What is a night terror?
200
A disorder where the sufferer experiences auditory and/or visual hallucinations and grandiose or paranoid delusions.
What is schizophrenia?
300
This perspective, developed by Sigmund Freud, emphasizes revealing deep urges and motivations through dream analysis, talk therapy and free association.
What is psychoanalysis?
300
Freud believed that if we got stuck in a developmental stage, we could a
What is fixation?
300
A type of learning that focuses on reinforcements and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
300
Bipolar disorder is characterized by periods of depression and
What is mania?
400
Which areas are responsible for memory and emotion?
What is the hippocampus and hypothalamus (or simply the limbic system)?
400
Name two of Freud's defense mechanisms.
Answers vary!
400
A type of learning where the learner imitates and observes the examples they see.
What is social or observational learning?
400
The "common cold" of psychological disorders.
What is depression?
400
What is the goal or aim of psychology?
Answers will vary.
500
The divisions in the brain responsible for hearing, speech, vision, and decision-making are called
What is lobes?
500
Our personalities are a combination of inherited traits and learned behaviors. This conflict is termed nature vs.
What is nurture?
500
A type of learning where associations are made between unconditioned stimuli and neutral stimuli.
What is classical conditioning?
500
In order for a disorder to be diagnosed, it must meet the 3 "D" requirements; it must be:
What is deviant, distressful and dysfunctional?
500
This neurotransmitter is too high in someone with schizophrenia.