DISORDERS
Schizophrenia is MOST characterized by
disruptions in thought processes, perceptions, emotional responsiveness, and social interactions
During the ______ stage of the G.A.S, arousal decreases and the body's resources may be depleted.
Exhaustion
The ____________________ stage of prenatal development refers to the first two weeks after conception.
Germinal
____________________ is the awareness of external events, internal sensations, self, and your thoughts about these experiences.
Consciousness
____________________ is like a filter that screens out most potential stimuli while allowing some to pass through into conscious awareness.
Selective attention
Which of the following is a mood disorder?
a. Fugue
b. bipolar disorder
c. panic disorder
b. bipolar disorder
Any circumstance that threatens or is perceived to threaten one’s well-being is known as ____________________.
Stress
Keshawn is happy to play along side his mother, becomes visibly upset when she leaves, but is quickly calmed by her return. According to Ainsworth, what type of attachment is he portraying?
Secure
____________________ sleep consists of Stages 3 and 4 sleep, during which low-frequency delta waves become prominent in EEG recordings.
Deep
According to Craik and Lockhart, when individuals think about the actual objects or actions that the words they are trying to memorize represent, they are using ____________________ encoding.
Semantic
The ____________________ hypothesis of schizophrenia proposes that the disease is caused, at least in part, by disruptions in the normal maturational processes of the brain before birth.
Neurodevelopmental hypothesis
The stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome that is most similar to the fight-or-flight response is the _________ stage.
Alarm
According to ______ infants are biologically programmed to emit behaviour that triggers an affectionate, protective response from adults
Bowlby
Joshua experiences reflexive gasping for air during sleep several times a night and frequently wakes up because of it. Joshua most likely has ____________________.
Sleep Apnea
Linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding is known as _______________.
Elaboration
A person who perceives stimuli that aren't there is said to have?
Hallucinations
Research suggests that the components of the Type A personality with the strongest link to heart disease are.
______________
aggression-hostility
A toddler's vocabulary rapidly grows between 18 - 24 months, as children engage in ______ or mapping a word onto an underlying concept after only one exposure.
Fast mapping
A splitting of mental processes into two separate, simultaneous streams of awareness is known as _________________.
Divided attention
A(n) ____________________ is an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event that develops through experience with the object or event in question.
Schema
Prominent symptoms of the ____________________ type of schizophrenia include emotional indifference, frequent incoherence, and virtually complete social withdrawal.
Disorganized
People who are high in ____________________ and anxiety, as well as those who are extremely attentive to their bodily sensations, tend to report more symptoms of illness than others.
neuroticism
The suggestion that the ____ cortex, characterized as the "executive control center" of the brain, appears to be the last area of the brain to fully mature have been used as a possible explanation for why ___ behavior peaks during adolescence.
Prefrontal, aggressive
According to Freud, the ____________________ content of a dream is the actual content of the dream at the surface level.
Manifest
According to the ____________________ principle, the value of a retrieval cue depends on how well it corresponds to the memory code.
encoding specificity