Perspectives in Psychology, Biology, and Research
The school of psychology that examines unconscious motives and internal conflicts to determine behavior, developed by Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis
The organization, interpretation, and conscious experience of our sensations
A method of learning that consists of observing and modeling another individual's behavior, attitudes, or emotional expressions
Observational (learning)
True or false: There are multiple different ways that people can exhibit intelligence.
True
A category of mental reactions experienced due to a strong feeling, usually directed towards a specific object, person, or event and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes
Emotion
This lobe of the brain is responsible for processing what we hear
Temporal lobe
The sense of sight relies on detecting and processing what as it passes through the eyeball?
Light
This condition is not one specific disease and a group of symptoms related to overall cognitive decline, including memory loss
Dementia
In this stage of adulthood, adults begin to rethink the decisions they have made and whether their current life course makes them truly happy
Reevaluation
This approach to personality seeks to understand personality by breaking it down into separate, distinct characteristics that can be measured and observed
Trait (approach)
In classical conditioning, the stimulus that initially produces NO response is the
Neutral stimulus
Any drug which INCREASES brain activity is a
Stimulant
The process of acquiring new and enduring information or behaviors through experience
Learning
The cognitive behavior in which ideas, images, mental representations, or other hypothetical elements of thought are experienced or manipulated
Thinking
This psychologist attempted to understand personality as the result of the conflict between our conscious and unconscious minds
Freud (Sigmund Freud)
In an experiment, the variable that is intentionally manipulated by the experimenter in order to observe the results is the
Independent variable
The processing that humans do that we are not actively aware of and that simply happens automatically, such as the physical process of walking
Implicit (processing)
This type of memory is related to general knowledge and facts
Semantic (memory)
This type of reasoning relies on drawing conclusions based on known facts and premises
Deductive (reasoning)
This theory of emotion states that the way people label or describe their emotions depends on their assessment of the situation
Cognitive Appraisal Theory
This part of the inner brain is responsible for regulating our breathing and heartbeat
Medulla (Oblongata)
The amount of change a stimuli must exhibit to be noticeably different at least half the time
Difference threshold
In this stage of language acquisition, children begin actively forming small words and begin to understand that certain sounds have certain meanings.
One-Word Stage
This is the concept of selectively breeding certain people with desirable traits, including heightened intelligence, in order to improve the human species
Eugenics
Motivation that is generated by external factors outside of oneself
Extrinsic (motivation)