Intro, Research, & the Brain
The physician, psychologist and philosopher who is usually credited with developing psychology is ____________.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The understanding that just because things are out of sight doesn't mean they no longer exist is called...
What is Object Permanence?
Hermann Ebbinghaus created the ______________ which says that over time we lose what we have learned.
What is the forgetting curve?
A type of psychotherapy that focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes affect your feelings and behaviors.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
Name of the book used for classifying and tracking psychological disorders?
What is DSM-5?
Jose takes a "depression cure" pill that he does not know is just sugar and nothing else. He reports feeling better the next week. This is referred to as the _____________.
What is Placebo Effect?
The state of being aware of and able to perceive one's own existence, feelings, thoughts, and surroundings.
What is consciousness?
The phenomenon where people are less likely to offer help in an emergency situation when there are many other people present.
What is The Bystander Effect?
An individual must have five or more specific symptoms present during the same two-week period, with at least one of those being either a depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure to be diagnosed with what?
What is major depressive disorder?
A person who has this career can prescribe medication for mental disorders.
What is a psychiatrist?
Isaac is studying the effects of vaping on mental health throughout the lifespan. He picks twenty different participants and decides to check in with them at ages 18, 28, 38 and 48. This is an example of a ___________ study.
What is Longitudinal Study?
The parenting style that is said to be the most successful with high demand and high responsiveness is called...
What is Authoritative Parenting?
The feeling of discomfort that arises when someone holds two conflicting beliefs.
What is cognitive dissonance?
The ________ model of abnormality says that abnormal behaviors were learned.
What is behaviorism?
In an eating disorders clinic, the patients receive merits for good eating behaviors such as finishing their meal, not exercising after their meal, and for appropriate behaviors on the unit. This best illustrates an application of:
What is a token economy?
What structure connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain?
What is the corpus callosum?
Piaget's stage of cogntivie development that lasts from 2-6 or 7 years old and involves the development of simple problem solving skills is the ___________ stage.
What is the preoperational stage?
The famous inkblot test is called the _____________.
What is the Rorschach test?
In the past, the most common theory of mental disorders was that it was caused by ___________.
What is supernatural forces?
He is known as the father of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The brain structure that plays a key role in processing emotions, particularly fear.
What is the amygdala?
The average sleep cycle lasts a total of __________.
What is 90 minutes?
Milgram's "shocking" study was used to study what?
What is obedience?
When an individual presents with two or more partial personalities, they are said to have what disorder?
What is Dissociate Identity Disorder?
Milgram's "shocking" study was used to study what?
What is obedience to authority?