Disorders
most common disorder; persistent worries about everyday life, tension, restlessness, trouble sleeping
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
volunteers were guards & prisoners; lead to psychological distress and early shut down of the experiment
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
introduced the hierarchy of needs with physiological needs at the bottom and self actualization at the peak
Who is Maslow?
focuses on unconscious conflicts, childhood experiences, influence of repressed thoughts on behavior
What is the psychoanalytic approach?
The lobe mainly responsible for vision
What is the occipital lobe?
psychotic condition involving hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and social withdrawal
What is schizophrenia?
demonstrated the importance of comfort and attachment by giving a choice between a soft cloth mother and a wire mother providing food
What is Harlow's Monkey attachment experiment?
stage theory of cognitive development (included sensorimotor and formal operational stages)
behavior is learned through conditioning, reinforcement, and observable actions rather than internal mental states
What is the behavioral approach?
controls heartbeat, breathing, and other basic life functions
What is the brainstem?
questions of whether this disorder is real; 2+ distinct personality states, gaps in memory
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
behavioral study where a bell was rung before food was presented, ultimately causing salivation at the sound alone
What is Pavlov's dog/classical conditioning experiment?
studied operant conditioning, invented a chamber where animals learned through reinforcement
Who is B.F. Skinner?
examines how people think, perceive, remember, and solve problems; the mind is like an information processing system
What is the cognitive approach?
responsible for forming new memories, shaped like a seahorse
What is the hippocampus?
develops after experiencing/witnessing a traumatic event; flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance
What is PTSD?
obedience study, ordinary people would obey authority figures even if it was inflicting pain onto other people
What is the Stanley Milgram Shock experiment?
experimented on memory and made people remember things that never happened
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
explains behavior through genetics, brain structure, neurotransmitters, and other physical processes
What is the biological/biopsychological approach?
"relay station", directs incoming sensory info (except smell) to appropriate cortical areas
What is the thalamus?
alternating periods of extremely high energy and elevated mood with episodes of deep depression
a young child was conditioned to fear a white rat after being paired with a loud/scary noise
What is the little Albert experiment?
humanistic psychologist, people are inherently good & naturally motivated to grow, unconditional positive regard, created client-centered therapy
Who is Carl Rogers
emphasizes free will, personal growth, belief that people are inherently good and capable of reaching full potential
What is the humanistic approach?
coordinates balance, posture, and fine motor skills
What is the cerebellum?