Types
Studies patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that deviate from what is considered normal or healthy, and that may be associated with a mental disorder.
Abnormal Psychology
Which two mood disorders are commonly treated with medication?
Anxiety and Depression.
Phineas Gage famously suffered a brain injury during a work accident that damaged which part of his brain?
Frontal Lobe
Conditioning that features positive and negative reinforcements.
Operant
Known for his work on Psychoanalysis, he is the most well known psychologist.
Sigmund Freud
The branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning.
Educational Psychology
Which cluster of personality disorders does Borderline Personality Disorder fall into?
Cluster B
The chemical messengers of the brain, carrying signals between our neurons.
Neurotransmitters
In psychology, ideas like awareness and perception are link to your...
consciousness
The Hierarchy of Needs is named after him.
Abraham Maslow
A psychological theory that focuses on observable behaviors and their relationships to environmental stimuli, rather than internal mental processes like thoughts and feelings.
Behaviorism
A reference book on mental health and brain-related conditions and disorders used in the U.S. to help psychologists evaluate and diagnose patients.
DSM-5
The outermost area of the brain which give humans the ability to think critically, use our imagination, and use complex language.
Cerebral Cortex
The top of the pyramid on the Hierarchy of Needs.
Self-Actualization
Conducted the Little Albert Experiment which proved that humans could be conditioned just like dogs.
John B. Watson
The application of scientific knowledge and methods to assist in answering legal questions that may arise in criminal, civil, contractual, or other judicial proceedings.
Forensic Psychology
40% of patients in mental hospitals have which disorder?
Schizophrenia
This part of the brain lies right behind the spinal cords, situatated on the lower end of the brain stem, controlling our automatic bodily functions like heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure.
Medulla Oblongata
In psychology, this terms refers to the point at which a stimulus is strong enough to be perceived or cause a response.
Threshold
The first psychologist.
Wilhelm Wundt
A school of psychology that emphasizes the perception of whole patterns and configurations, rather than individual parts.
Gestalt Psychology
People with Schizophrenia will experience a loss of contact with reality, often including symptoms like hallucinations and delusions, and sometimes disorganized thinking and speech, known as...
Psychosis
The base of the brain which holds the thalamus, hypothalamus and epithalamus.
Diencephalon
A psychoanalytic concept that suggests that girls develop a subconscious attraction to their father and a sense of rivalry with their mother, typically between the ages of 3 and 6.
Electra Complex
Theorized about the psychosocial development of humans, and creates the stages of development based on his work.
Erik Erikson