Part 1 Module 1
Human behavior could be modified if the correct combination of reinforcements and punishments were used.
What is Behaviorism?
Any procedure intended to modify abnormal behavior into normal behavior.
What is Treatment?
Network of nerve cells and fibers that transmit signals between parts of the body.
What is the Nervous system?
Control or partially control visible characteristics known as traits.
What are genes?
The totality of socially transmitted behaviors, customs, values, technology, attitudes, beliefs, art, and other products that are particular to a group.
What is Culture?
The scientific study of such topics as happiness, love, hope, optimism, life satisfaction, goal setting, leisure, and subjective well-being.
What is Positive Psychology?
A specific belief or assumption about individuals based solely on their membership in a group, regardless of their individual characteristics.
What is a Stereotype?
Prepares body for stress-related activity (fight/flight).
What is the Sympathetic nervous system?
Studies the psychological forces, particularly those in the unconscious mind, that influence human behavior, feelings, and emotions.
What is the Psychodynamic theory?
When two or more mental disorders are occurring at the same time and in the same person.
What is Comorbidity?
A disabling condition in social, occupational, or other important activities.
What is Distress?
Cognitive symptom of advanced syphilis that included belief that everyone is plotting against you or that you are God (delusion of grandeur).
What is General paresis?
A rapid, temporary change in the electrical voltage across a cell membrane, primarily in neurons and muscle cells, that serves as an electrical signal.
What is an Action potential?
When we avoid emotion by focusing on the intellectual aspects of a situation.
What is Intellectualization?
Identify factors that cause specific mental health issues and implementing interventions to stop them from happening.
What is Prevention?
A level of suffering or impairment that is severe enough to warrant professional intervention.
What is a Clinically significant disturbance?
A testable prediction about how the world will behave if our idea is correct, and it is often worded as an if-then statement
What is a Hypothesis?
Bridge between medulla and cerebellum, transfers messages to different parts of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Pons?
A type of associative learning where two separate events become connected.
What is Conditioning?
Set of beliefs and expectations about a group of people, presumed to apply to all members of the group, and based on experience.
What is a Schema?
The scientific study of the frequency and causes of diseases and other health-related states in specific populations.
What is Epidemiology?
All participants have an equal chance of being assigned to either the control or the experimental group.
What is Random assignment?
Primarily responsible for forming new memories (especially episodic memories of personal experiences) and storing spatial maps of the environment.
What is the Hippocampus?
If our behavior produces a favorable consequence under certain conditions, when those conditions arise, we are more likely to repeat the behavior expecting a similar result and visa versa.
What is the Law of effect?
When we attribute our success to our efforts (dispositional) and our failures to external causes (situational).
What is Self-serving bias?