The Brain and Nervous System
The number of hemispheres the brain is divided into.
What is 2?
The type of conditioning that was discovered using bells, dogs, and meat.
What is classical conditioning?
The structure of the psyche that has biological drives and demands instant gratification even if it is not rational or lawful.
What is the Id?
This disorder often includes hallucinations and delusions, but also disorganized speech, catatonia, and many other distressing symptoms.
What is schizophrenia?
This is the complete group to be researched. (HINT: I wish for you to identify this in your paper for each study)
What is a population?
The number of lobes the brain is divided into.
What is 4?
The type of punishment that would occur if you subtracted a pleasant stimulus like screen time.
What is negative?
Freud believed that when girls are young, they were jealous of their mothers and attracted to this family member.
What is their father?
This disorder consists of a single person having multiple alternative identities likely created to cope with stress from trauma.
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
The Stanford Prison experiment consisted of verbal, physical, and long term psychological abuse. Nowadays, this study would be considered. . .
What is unethical?
The nervous system that is activated when we are on high alert and likely experiencing "fight or flight".
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Acquiring knowledge through watching another person being reinforced or punished.
What is observational learning?
A person may develop a smoking or nail biting habit if they were fixated in this stage of psychosocial development.
What is an oral stage?
The attributional style that would have someone think that there is no way they will be able to overcome depression (HINT: stable or unstable)
What is stable?
This type of study is NOT CAUSE AND EFFECT but does describe the relationship between two or more variables.
What is a correlational design?
These chemical signals are released from one neuron to the next so that signals can be transmitted throughout the nervous system and act on the rest of the body.
What are neurotransmitters?
The reinforcement schedule in which the person is reinforced every time they respond.
What is a fixed ratio schedule?
The aspect of the psyche that is on the surface of consciousness, but encompasses deep moral principle.
What is the superego?
The symptom of schizophrenia where one has false beliefs that are blatantly not true.
What are delusions?
The social psychology concept that the Milgram shocking experiment demonstrated.
What is obedience?
This type of brain processing uses prior knowledge and expectations to interpret and organize new information.
What is top down processing?
Gradually exposing someone to a feared stimuli so that they become less fearful of it overtime.
What is systematic desensitization?
The impulses that Freud believed are a central factor in personality.
What is sexual impulses?
The DSM gives symptoms, duration, and statistics on disorders. However, this is the information that the DSM does not provide.
What are treatment plans?
This is an advantageous method for a study in which the participants and the experimenters do not know which treatment or variables is assigned to which participants.
What is double blinding?