types of psychology/what psychologists study
What do developmentalists study?
Who are researchers that study the lifespan?
What type of science studies behavior and mental processes?
What is psychology?
What is a cohort?
What is our birth group?
What is the name of the psychological disorder characterized by excessive and persistent worry and anxiety?
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
What perspective of psychology is interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes?
What is the biological perspective?
What type of psychology involves counseling for mental and behavioral health?
What is counseling psychology?
What is the term for a person’s unique combination of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive patterns?
What is personality?
What is the term for an individual’s conscious understanding of their own thoughts and feelings?
What is self-awareness?
What mental disorder causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs and lows?
What is bipolar disorder?
What perspective focuses on how processing, storing, and retrieving information influences our behavior?
What is the cognitive perspective?
What psychology involves the study of how humans have changed throughout time?
What is evolutionary psychology?
What is the term for the unconscious blocking of unpleasant memories?
What is repression?
What is the term for the tendency to seek out information that confirms one’s pre-existing beliefs?
What is confirmation bias?
What disorders are characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functions?
What are personality disorders?
These measure personality traits, emotional states, IQ, and abilities; objective tests, projective tests, standardized tests
What are psychological tests?
What type of psychology helps people with disabilities and chronic health issues by teaching coping mechanisms and ways for patients to improve their lives?
What is rehabilitation psychology?
What hormone results in feelings of well-being and "happiness?"
What is dopamine?
What is the name of the phenomenon where people conform to a group even when it goes against their beliefs?
What is social conformity?
What disorder is characterized by re-experiencing the traumatic event or events in the present (intrusive memories, flashbacks, or nightmares)?
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
What type of reaction occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival?
What is the fight or flight response?
What is gerontology?
What is the study of aging?
What is the name of the psychological test that measures personality traits, such as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism?
What is the Big Five Personality Test?
What part of the brain is closely linked with emotions?
What is the amygdala?
What is the name of the psychological disorder where a person has two or more distinct identities or personalities?
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
What is a persuasive technique where people agreeing to a small request will lead to complying with a larger request later?
What is "Foot in the Door" technique?