Psychological Disorders
unreasonable anxiety with others, has to do with people and social settings
Social Anxiety Disorder
The transition period between childhood and adulthood
Adolescence
An imaging technique used to study brain structure and activity
MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging
A persons perception of his or her ability to cope with a certain tense event or situation
Stress
The scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research
Psychology
Disorder characterized by sudden, uncontrollable onsets of anxiety in which youe heart races, you may feel like you cannot breathe, sweating, etc.
Panic Disorder
A small, exclusive group of people within a larger group
Clique
What neurotransmitter is involved in euphoria (extreme happiness) and inhibited pain?
Endorphins
Day to day, minor stressors like losing your keys or getting stuck in traffic
hassles
Psychologists study 2 types of behavior. what are they?
Physiological and cognitive
Disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts and repeated actions.
Obessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Acting in accordance with some specified authority or acting like your peers to fit in
Conformity
Chemical messengers released into the gaps between neurons are called ___________
Neurotransmitters
Fight or flight
An assumption about behavior that is tested through scientific research
Hypothesis
The Disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks
PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
During cognitive development, many teens use _______ which is a process whereby an individual seeks to explain an often unpleasant emotion or behavior in a way that will preserve his or her self-esteem.
Rationalization
What part of the brain controls violent emotions like rage and fear?
amygdala
A vague, generalized apprehension or feeling of danger
Anxiety
The measure of a relationship between two variables or sets of data.
Correlation
forgetting an event due to the traumatic or stressful nature of the event. It is so upsetting that you block it out
Dissociative Amnesia
The condition during adolescence in which the growth or maturation of body parts is uneven.
Asynchrony
The part of the nervous system that controls voluntary activities is the _________
Somatic nervous system
Information that leads someone to believe that he or she is cared for, loved, respected and part of a network of communication and mutual obligation
Social support
If something is __________ it means it did not occur by chance. We can trust the results of the study.
Statistically significant