Unit 2
The system that sends slow hormone-based signals throughout the body.
What is the endocrine system?
These are the body's five main senses.
What are sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing?
This man pioneered classical conditioning by teaching dogs to salivate upon hearing a bell.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This is the book that describes psychological disorders and their treatments. Currently on its fifth edition.
What is the DSM?
A term for a belief that leads to its own fulfillment.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
This is the master gland of the endocrine system
What is the pituitary gland?
This is the term for the impact of stimuli that cannot be consciously processed on our judgement and cognition
What is subliminal messaging?
This is the term for encouraging a behavior by removing a stimulus that the subject doesn't like.
What is negative reinforcement?
This is the psychological disorder in which one has a split from reality and often suffers from hallucinations and delusions.
What is schizophrenia?
The phenomenon in which people become less likely to help while in groups.
What is the bystander effect?
Category of drugs that slow brain activity.
What are depressants?
This our sense of position regarding our body, sometimes referred to as our sixth sense.
What is Kinesthesia?
The portion of long term memory that processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience
What is semantic memory?
This is a highly controversial form of psychosurgery in which the connection between the frontal lobes and emotional centers are severed.
What is a lobotomy?
The term for the tendency to exert less effort while in a group
What is social loafing?
Term for the destruction of brain cells.
What is a lesion?
This is the term for the construction of perceptions which draw from our personal experiences
What is top-down processing?
The man who increased our understanding of behaviorism and classical conditioning with the Baby Albert experiment.
Who is John Watson?
This is the term for the fear of and avoidance of places where one has felt loss of control or panic.
What is agoraphobia?
The term for our tendency to overestimate the impact of someone's personality, and underestimate the impact of the situation.
What is fundamental attribution error?
This is the deepest stage of sleep.
What is Non-REM 3?
The term for the formation of whole and meaningful stimuli out of mixed or unintegrated pieces of information.
What are gestalt principals?
These are behaviors that develop when someone incorrectly associates a neutral stimulus with a reward.
What are superstitious behaviors?
A psychological disorder in which two or more distinct identities alternate control of a person's behavior.
What is DID?
The aspect of persuasion that involves the way the speaker presents themselves.
What is peripheral route persuasion?