Bio psychology
What part of the brain is severed in a lobotomy?
Frontal lobe
What disorder is characterized by changes in mood with phases of intense depression and phases of mania?
Bi-Polar Disorder
A relatively stable set of characteristics that influences an individual’s behavior
Personality
Pushing a memory of a traumatic experience into the unconscious mind is called _____
Repression
Our evaluation of a person, an idea, or an object. Can be positive or negative. Influenced by external forces and internal factors that we control.
Attitude
Our senses / sensory organs, send messages to the brain through the ___
Nervous system
This disorder is characterized by intense episodes of fear, anxiousness, and physical reactions like elevated heart rate, sweating, and changes in blood pressure.
Panic Disorder
Someone who is a ______ could be described as, outgoing, assertive, sociable, and enjoys interactions with people or groups.
Extravert
What psychologist believed that our personality and behavior is largely driven from unconscious sexual, aggressive, or trauma related desires / memories.
Sigmund Freud
A negative attitude and feeling toward an individual based solely on one’s membership in a particular social group.
Prejudice
Serotonin and Dopamine are two types of ___
Neurotransmitters
Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia are two types of ____ disorders.
Eating
Someone who is a ______ could be described as, reserved, less sociable, and typically doesn't seek group interaction preferring being alone or with a small number.
Introvert
Using positive rewards for positive behavior, or negative consequence for negative behaviors are examples of ____
Conditioning (positive / negative)
The act of blaming an out-group when the in-group experiences frustration or is blocked from obtaining a goal.
Scapegoating
CAT scans, MRI's, and EEGs are all methods to scan what?
Parts / systems of the brain
This disorder is characterized by a strong urge to complete a action, even if the action is not necessary or detrimental.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder/ OCD
The process by which we perceive & respond to certain events (known as stressors) that we appraise as threatening and/or challenging
Stress
Humanist psychologists like to focus on ___
Human growth and potential
People’s desire to help others even if the costs outweigh the benefits of helping.
Altruism
(chemicals) released from the sending neuron travel across the synapse and bind to receptor sites on the receiving neuron, thereby influencing it to generate an action potential.
Neurotransmitters
In the past, people with this disorder were thought to be demon possessed, or communicating with outer-worldly beings and were often treated with exorcisms or trepanation.
Schizophrenia (paranoid schizophrenia)
Active efforts to master, reduce or tolerate the demands created by stress; can be helpful or maladaptive.
Coping
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Psychology
What are the three components to Sternberg's triangular theory of love?
Intimacy / Passion / Commitment