Introduction and Research Methods
This is what all psychologists are committed to, no matter their discipline.
What is the scientific method?
This part of the mind operates on the pleasure principle, seeking immediate gratification, according to Freud.
What is the Id?
Exposure therapy can help someone overcome this kind of anxiety disorder.
What are phobias?
Being conditioned to pull over when you hear an ambulance siren is this kind of learning.
What is classical conditioning?
These are the types of twins that share 50% of genes.
What are dizygotic (fraternal) twins?
Robert Calin-Jageman's research on seaslugs is an example of this level of analysis.
What is the brain level?
This is the altering of behavior so it matches the norms of a group.
What is conformity?
This type of therapy focuses on changing negative thought patterns to improve mood.
What is cognitive therapy?
This is the type of learning that occurs when response comes before the stimulus.
What is operant conditioning?
This structure connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
This type of question can be answered by collecting real evidence instead of relying on opinions or beliefs.
What is an empirical question?
Asking a client to say whatever comes to mind when viewing a Rorschach ink blot picture would be called this.
What is free association?
This disorder occurs when thoughts and actions are disorganized and thinking loses touch with reality.
What are psychotic disorders?
Saying the words "ice cream, beach, and sun" are doing this to an individual to make them think of "summer."
What is priming?
This mental illness is the most heritable.
What is schizophrenia?
This is the process by which we assign participants to conditions by chance.
What is random assignment?
This is the name for what can happen when a large group of people are around when someone gets hurt and nobody calls for help.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
This kind of symptom involved adding something unwanted, such as hallucinations or delusions.
What are positive symptoms?
Iconic memory is this kind of memory.
What is sensory memory?
This is the name for the fatty substance that speeds up neurotransmitter signals down the axon.
What is the myelin sheath?
This kind of study requires the manipulation of an independent variable and random assignment.
What is a true experiment?
This personality theory includes understanding the conditions of worth of an individual.
What is humanistic theory?
This is the length of time needed for symptoms to persist in order to get a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder.
What is three months?
Sindy couldn't look at funnel cake anymore for fear of throwing up, is an example of this.
What is taste aversion?
The peripheral nervous system consists of these two parts.
What are the autonomic and somatic nervous systems?