Biological Bases of Behavior
What part of the neuron receives messages?
What is the dendrite?
What is the mental process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information?
What is memory?
Who is known for the stages of cognitive development in children?
Who is Jean Piaget?
Who proposed the psychodynamic theory of personality?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
What does OCD stand for?
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
Which neurotransmitter is most associated with mood and depression?
What is serotonin?
What is it called when you repeat information to remember it longer?
What is rehearsal?
What are the three stages of prenatal development?
What are zygote, embryo, and fetus?
What are the three parts of Freud’s model of the psyche?
What are the id, ego, and superego?
Which disorder is marked by alternating periods of mania and depression?
What is bipolar disorder?
Which part of the brain is responsible for coordinating movement and balance?
What is the cerebellum?
Which type of memory holds about 7 items for a short time?
What is short-term memory?
What is Erikson’s stage for teenagers called?
What is identity vs. role confusion?
Which personality theory focuses on self-actualization?
What is the humanistic theory?
What is a common symptom of schizophrenia?
What is hallucinations or delusions?
What does the myelin sheath do for neurons?
What is it speeds up neural impulses?
What is the tendency to remember the first and last items in a list?
What is the serial position effect?
What reflex causes a baby to turn its head when its cheek is touched?
What is the rooting reflex?
What does the Big Five trait “conscientiousness” describe?
What is being organized, responsible, and careful?
What disorder involves intense fear of social situations?
What is social anxiety disorder?
What part of the brain plays a key role in forming new memories?
What is the hippocampus?
What is the phenomenon where a memory is blocked by newer or older information?
What is interference?
What is the term for the fear of strangers that babies show around 8 months?
What is stranger anxiety?
Who developed the concept of the “inferiority complex”?
Who is Alfred Adler?
What is the term for multiple co-occurring disorders in one person?
What is comorbidity?