Intro to Psych
This type of psychologist provides guidance in relationships, careers, and other general fields.
What is a counselor?
This is considered to be the basic building block of the nervous system; a nerve cell.
This includes intoxication, meditation, sleep, and hypnosis.
What are altered states of consciousness
This is a positive form of stress that helps one obtain their goals.
What is eustress?
This is an anxiety disorder that causes someone to fear something specific, like spiders or tall places.
What is phobic disorder?
This type of psychologist is a medical doctor, and can prescribe medication to treat disorders.
What is a psychiatrist
What is the central nervous system?
This category of drug causes the body's processes to speed up; includes amphetamines and nicotine.
What are stimulants?
A type of learning that is caused by associating two different stimuli together, causing a conditioned response.
What is classical conditioning?
This is a mood disorder that causes mood swings, ranging from manic episodes to major depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
This type of psychologist works with law enforcement to train police officers and evaluate criminal behavior.
What is a forensic psychologist?
What is perception?
What is insomnia?
What is positive punishment?
This is a personality disorder that has characteristics like an inflated self-worth, belief that they deserve excessive admiration, and lack of empathy for others.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
This type of psychologist studies the changes in behavior as people age; "womb to tomb".
What is a developmental psychologist?
This part of the brain is responsible for processing visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This is the deepest level of consciousness, which contains repressed, traumatic memories and other qualities that affect behavior.
What is the subconscious/unconscious mind?
What is negative reinforcement?
This is a dissociative disorder that causes people to feel detached from themselves and their mental processes.
What is depersonalization?
This type of psychologist helps teachers create curriculum for classes.
What is an educational psychologist?
The "master gland" of the endocrine system, located in the brain.
This was the psychologist that used hypnosis to research the deepest levels of consciousness.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
An example of this reinforcement schedule would be buying scratch-offs or gambling at casinos.
What is variable-interval reinforcement schedule?
A somatoform that causes one to believe that they have lost function in a limb or organ, but is actually physically healthy.
What is conversion disorder?