The "study of behavior and mental processes" is known as this: it's also the title of our class.
What is Psychology
100
A zygote is created at conception in 9 months, this phase of tiny human is ready to be birthed into the world
What is the fetus
100
Infants and small children need to master this skill if they think that the Teddy Bear you put behind your back is gone forever.
What is object permanence.
100
Free association and dream analysis are the core of therapy in this Freudian school of thought
What is Psychoanalysis
100
Piaget's cognitive developmental theory pinpoints that if a person reached the milestones of Conservation, Reversibility, and Decentration, they reached this 3rd stage of development
What is Concrete Operational Stage
200
Scientific Studies support that this legal, common teratogen, or damaging agent to an embryo, can cause birth defects in babies
What is Alcohol
200
Your brain is made of several billion of these, the basic unit of the nervous system
What is a neuron
200
This periodic table member is also an effective treatment in response to Bipolar disorder
What is Lithium
200
B.F. Skinner showed scientific support for this, a kind of condition that focuses on rewards and punishments.
What is Operant Conditioning
200
To make your dog perform a trick, it is usually nessceary to condition the dog using some sort of reward. After a while, if you don't give the dog a reward, the dog won't do the trick. This process of loss is known as
What is extinction
300
Baby monkeys and humans have some specific needs. While milk and food are important to them, babies tend to what this, something "wire mother" could not provide.
What is contact comfort
300
Dopamine and Epinephrine are two of these well known parts of the brain that help send messages from one synapse to another
What are Neurotransmitters
300
These agents in our environment cause arousal of the mind and body, causing distress, eutress or some combination of both.
What are stressors
300
As humans continue to find more information about the brain, this school of thought in psychology continues to create genetic and organic reasons to explain behavior.
What is Neurobiological School, or Approach
300
Mary Cover-Jones was successful with this experiment subject, as she used systematic desensitization, to rid the subject of his fear of rabbits that was probably created by John Watson's experiment.
Who is Baby Albert.
400
The first laboratory that was established to study behavior was set up by this founding figure of psychology
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
400
This lobe of the brain is most developed in humans, making our cerebrum the largest brain compared to our body size in the world
What is the frontal lobe
400
An EEG, or electroencephalogram record the "staged" brain activity during this important part of the human experience
What is sleep
400
Erik Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development marks Middle Adulthood with the virtue of "care." The crisis involved relates to this "task," the need to be productive and stems from an optimism about humanity.
What is generativity.
400
"Never East Sour Wheat" helps you remember the directions and is known as this, a device used to help your memory.
What is mnemonic
500
People generally need to study more for tests. If they fail their test, it is likely that a student will explain away the problem, a defense mechanism meant make an illogical scenario more logical.
What is rationalization.
500
This specific structure of the brain enables us to speak and the process of language
What is Broca's area
500
This is the process of changing a physical stimulus to a neural stimulus.
What is transduction
500
B.F Skinner acknowledges after scientific research that between fixed/variable and interval/ratio schedules of reinforcements, this is the most successful reinforcement schedule.
What is variable-ratio
500
The inability to feel pleasure, having a lack of motivation, and a decrease in personal hygiene are these kinds of symptoms, and can be a sign of schizophrenia