Memory
This is the process of getting information into your memory.
What is encoding?
This type of learning happens when a neutral stimulus is paired with a reflexive response.
What is classical conditioning?
This is the natural, recurring state of rest that helps your body and mind recover.
What is sleep?
When someone blames others for their own mistakes, they are using this defense mechanism.
What is projection?
This mood disorder is marked by long-lasting sadness and loss of interest.
What is depression (major depressive disorder)?
This type of memory holds information for only a few seconds, just long enough to process sensory input.
What is sensory memory?
This Russian scientist famously trained dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This stage of sleep is when vivid dreams are most likely to occur.
What is REM sleep?
These are the three parts of Freud’s model of personality.
What are the id, ego, and superego?
This disorder involves cycles of extreme highs and lows.
What is bipolar disorder?
This term describes the act of repeating information to keep it in short-term memory longer.
What is maintenance rehearsal?
This is the difference between reinforcement and punishment in operant conditioning.
What is reinforcement increases behavior, punishment decreases behavior?
This is the term for chronic problems with falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
In the Big Five model, this trait describes someone who is outgoing and sociable.
What is extraversion?
Sally washes her hands repeatedly and cannot stop thinking about germs, even when she tries. Which disorder do these symptoms describe?
What is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)?
These are the three stages of memory, in order.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
In operant conditioning, this term describes rewarding closer and closer versions of a desired behavior.
What is shaping?
This rare sleep disorder involves sudden attacks of sleep.
What is narcolepsy?
This psychologist is known for the hierarchy of needs, with self-actualization at the top.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This disorder is often characterized by hallucinations, delusions, or disorganized thinking.
What is schizophrenia?
This type of amnesia means you can’t make new memories after an injury, while the other means you can’t remember the past before the injury.
What is anterograde amnesia?
This type of learning happens by watching and imitating others, and this psychologist is known for it.
What is observational learning, and who is Albert Bandura?
This psychologist is the most famous for analyzing dreams.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This defense mechanism involves attributing your own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to someone else.
What is projection?
This disorder involves a person having two or more distinct identities or personalities.
What is dissociative identity disorder?