Learning & Behavior
In this type of learning, a previously neutral stimulus comes to trigger a response after being associated with a stimulus that naturally triggers that response.
What is CLASSICAL CONDITIONING?
This brain structure, part of the limbic system, plays a crucial role in processing emotions, particularly fear responses, and forms emotional memories.
What is the AMYGDALA?
This research approach examines how people make meaning of their lived experiences and emphasizes depth of understanding over generalizability.
What is QUALITATIVE Research?
This perspective focuses on observable behavior and the relationship between stimuli and responses rather than internal mental processes.
What is BEHAVIORISM?
Humanistic Psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed a _____________________, suggesting that people must satisfy basic needs before pursuing higher-level growth needs.
What is a HIERARCHY OF NEEDS?
This treatment approach focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns to improve emotional regulation and develop personal coping strategies.
What is COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT)?
In operant conditioning, this process involves adding or removing a stimulus to decrease the likelihood of a behavior occurring in the future.
What is PUNISHMENT?
This neurotransmitter is associated with feelings of pleasure and reward, playing a key role in motivation and reinforcement of behaviors.
What is DOPAMINE?
Unlike traditional research methods, this approach critically examines power dynamics, challenges dominant narratives, and emphasizes the inclusion of marginalized voices in the production of knowledge.
What is CRITICAL RESEARCH?
This approach challenges Western psychological frameworks by integrating Indigenous knowledge systems and healing practices from the Global South.
What is DECOLONIAL PSYCHOLOGY?
This developmental psychologist outlined eight psychosocial stages that humans navigate throughout their lifespan, each involving a central crisis to be resolved.
Who is ERIK ERIKSON?
This DBT mindfulness technique involves observing the sensations throughout your body, part by part, while remaining non-judgmental.
What is BODY SCANNING?
This learning occurs when individuals acquire new behaviors by watching others perform them, a cornerstone of Bandura's theory.
What is OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING or MODELING?
This neurotransmitter regulates mood, anxiety, sleep, and appetite, with low levels often associated with depression.
What is SEROTONIN?
This ethical principle requires that researchers provide potential participants with complete information about risks and benefits before they agree to participate.
What is INFORMED CONSENT?
This approach recognizes how multiple systems of oppression and privilege interact to create unique experiences that cannot be understood by examining single identities.
What is INTERSECTIONALITY?
This core concept in Carl Rogers' person-centered theory refers to a person's capacity to grow toward psychological maturity and health.
What is an ACTUALIZING TENDENCY or SELF-ACTUALIZATION?
This psychological protective factor involves a person's belief in their ability to succeed in specific situations, influencing their goals and resilience.
What is SELF-EFFICACY?
This behaviorist proposed that development is a continuous process shaped by operant conditioning, with reinforcement and punishment playing key roles throughout life.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This division of the nervous system controls automatic functions like heart rate and digestion and has sympathetic and parasympathetic branches.
What is the AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM?
The establishment of this 1979 document represented the first comprehensive ethical framework for human subjects research, outlining three core principles.
What is the BELMONT REPORT?
This framework in decolonial psychology helps understand how oppression, racism, and colonization create complex and cumulative trauma effects.
What is "the Wound" Framework
This is one of Carl Rogers' core conditions for effective therapy, requiring the therapist to accept the client without judgment or evaluation.
What is UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD?
This concept explains how traumatic experiences can affect multiple generations through both psychological mechanisms and biological pathways.
What is INTERGENERATIONAL or HISTORICAL TRAUMA?
These four essential components in Bandura's social cognitive theory must all be present for observational learning to occur.
What are attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation?
This field explains how environmental factors can affect gene expression without changing DNA sequence, potentially explaining how trauma can affect future generations.
What is EPIGENETICS?
In his famous conformity experiments, this psychologist demonstrated how individuals often conform to group pressure, even when the group is clearly wrong.
Who is SOLOMON ASCH?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!
This perspective, described by Albert Marshall and Cheryl Bartlett and echoed by Duran (2019, as cited in Comas-Diaz & Jacobsen, 2024), emphasizes using one eye to value Indigenous knowledge and the other to value Western knowledge, blending both in an "alchemical amalgamation.
What is the TWO-EYE SEEING PERSPECTIVE?
This functional principle of humanistic psychology emphasizes the importance of understanding subjective experience rather than objective reality.
What is PHENOMELOGY or PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH?
This approach to healing emphasizes the importance of restoring balance and harmony within communities rather than focusing solely on individual symptoms.
What is COLLECTIVE HEALING or COMMUNITY-BASED HEALING?