Chapter 1
This area of psychology studies the causes and treatments of psychological disorders.
What are Clinical Psychologists
______ Psychology is the study of how behavior is related to the brain and nervous system.
This stage of sleep, consisting of slow delta waves, is when one's breathing and heart rate slow down, and they become hard to wake.
What is Stage 3.
______ is a change in behavior as a result of experience, not maturation.
The persistence of learning over time.
Medicine, Engineering, Business and Legal are all focusses of this area of psychology.
What is Applied Psychology.
The nervous system is broken up into the Central and ______ nervous system.
This occurs during deep sleep, while one is dreaming and the brain is stimulated.
Classical conditioning and ______ conditioning, are the two types of learning theories.
Allows a perceived item of interest to be converted into a construct that can be stored within the brain.
This area of psychology focuses on theoretical, basic research.
This integrates incoming information and determines if the cell fires or not.
These type of brain waves are fast and random and only happen while one is awake.
This is the theory that learning occurs as a result of paired association.
______ is retaining material over time.
______ perform counseling, school psychological assessment as well as working with severe disorders.
Transmits messages away from cell body.
This sleep disorder is where a person goes from being in an awake state into immediate REM sleep.
This is a process by which we undo the conditioning present to the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus.
This is the first stage if memory storage where we see/hear, and stimulate the brain very shortly.
A question or statement about the relationship between two variables.
What is a Hypothesis.
Alcohol and Valium are examples of ______ substances.
What is Agonist.
This type of sleep is when the brain looks awake, but the body is paralyzed.
This psychologist used dogs in an experiment to come up with the Classical Conditioning theory.
This phenomena is when one is left with parts of the retrieval process, but cannot form all of the information.
What is Tip-of-Tongue Phenomenon.