Intro Psychology
This man is considered the father of psychoanalytic psychology.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
What clinicians reference for diagnosing mental conditions.
What is the DSM-V?
Jean Piaget coined this term to describe a child's understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched, typically developing around 8 to 12 months of age
What is object permanence?
This pervasive attribution error describes our tendency to overestimate internal, personality-based factors and underestimate external, situational factors when explaining the negative behavior of others.
What is fundamental attribution error?
These neuron structures receive incoming signals from other neurons
What are dendrites?
The name of the brain structure essential for forming new long-term memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
This personality disorder is defined by a persistent pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, often with manipulative and deceitful behavior
What is Anti Social Personality Disorder?
The psychologist who proposed the four stages of cognitive development in children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The psychological term describes the mental shortcut that allows fast but sometimes flawed judgments.
What is a Heuristic?
This neurotransmitter is associated with reward, motivation, and movement.
What is dopamine?
Led by figures like Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, this "third force" in psychology rejected behaviorism and psychoanalysis to focus on human potential, free will, and self-actualization.
What is humanistic psychology?
The cluster of personality disorders categorized by anxious and fearful behavior.
What is Cluster C?
Erik Eriksons central psychosocial conflict of adolescence (ages 12-18)
What is Identity vs Role Confusion?
This dangerous group dynamic, famously analyzed by Irving Janis, occurs when a highly cohesive group prioritizes unanimity and harmony over a realistic, critical assessment of alternative viewpoints or facts.
What is groupthink?
This division of the nervous system controls voluntary muscle movement.
What is the somatic nervous system?
In operant conditioning, this specific term describes the process of removing an unpleasant or annoying stimulus immediately after a behavior occurs in order to increase the likelihood that the behavior will happen again.
What is negative reinforcement?
This specific type of delusion, frequently seen in mania or schizophrenia, causes an individual to falsely believe that an external force or person is inserting thoughts directly into their mind.
What is Thought Insertion?
In research methodology, this specific confounding variable occurs when differences observed between age groups are driven by shared historical or cultural experiences unique to their generation rather than actual chronological aging.
What is the cohort effect?
The name of the phenomenon where people perform better when being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
This network in the brainstem regulates alertness and consciousness.
What is the Reticular activating system?
This specific type of long-term memory houses our conscious, recallable facts, general knowledge, and personally experienced events.
What is explicit memory?
Developed by Francine Shapiro, this structured, eight-phase psychotherapy technique asks patients to focus on traumatic memories while experiencing bilateral stimulation, usually via lateral eye tracking.
What is EMDR?
The massive developmental process in the infant brain involving the rapid, intentional elimination of underutilized synaptic connections to increase the efficiency of active neural networks.
What is synaptic pruning?
This egocentric social bias describes our tendency to drastically overestimate how much other people are noticing, evaluating, and judging our physical appearance, mistakes, or behavior
What is the spotlight effect?
The theory of pitch perception stating that low frequencies are encoded by the rate of neural firing, while high frequencies are encoded by the specific place of displacement along the basilar membrane, is known as this.
What is the volley principle?