Behavioral Analysis
This form of learning occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus.
What is classical conditioning?
This part of the neuron receives incoming signals.
What are dendrites?
This occurs when the presence of others inhibits helping during an emergency.
What is the bystander effect?
Repetitive, intrusive thoughts paired with ritualistic behaviors define this condition.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
This humanistic psychologist developed the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
In behavior analysis, this is adding something that increases a behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
The brain’s main sensory relay station.
What is the thalamus?
This controversial study by Philip Zimbardo demonstrated how social roles can lead to abusive behavior.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This disorder involves alternating periods of depression and elevated mood.
What is bipolar disorder?
This psychologist is famous for the “Little Albert” experiment on conditioned fear.
Who is John Watson?
This term refers to the reduction of a conditioned response when reinforcement stops.
What is extinction?
The left and right hemispheres communicate via this large fiber bundle.
What is the corpus callosum?
This is the tendency to attribute others’ behavior to their personality rather than to the situation.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
Hallucinations and delusions are hallmark symptoms of this disorder.
What is schizophrenia?
This cognitive psychologist proposed the stages of cognitive development in children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
In classical conditioning, learning occurs most strongly when the conditioned stimulus comes shortly before the unconditioned stimulus.
What is delay conditioning?
Broca’s area is primarily involved in this language function.
What is speech production?
This phenomenon occurs when expectations about a person lead that person to behave in ways that confirm the expectation.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
These disorders involve physical symptoms without a clear medical cause.
What are somatic symptom disorders?
This humanistic psychologist emphasized the importance of unconditional positive regard and developed client-centered therapy.
Who is Carl Rogers?
In operant conditioning, this occurs when stimuli similar to a conditioned stimulus also evoke a response.
What is stimulus generalization?
This insulating material around many axons increases the speed of neural transmission.
What is myelin?
This occurs when the desire for harmony or conformity in a group results in irrational or dysfunctional decision-making.
What is groupthink?
This anxiety disorder is diagnosed when fear and avoidance follow a panic attack specifically in places where escape may be difficult.
What is agoraphobia?
This psychologist proposed the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross