Chapters 1 & 2
History and Research
Chapter 5: Consciousness
Chapter 6: Learning
Chapter 7: Memory
Chapter 18: Disorders
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A medical doctor who specializes in the treatment of psychological problems and who can prescribe medication.
What is a psychiatrist
100
An example of this term is when you are screening out your classmates' side-bar conversations in order to pay attention to this answer.
What is selective attention?
100
This is when each step of a sequence must be learned and must lead to the next step until the final action is achieved. An example is learning an 8 count in a dance, learning the next 8 count, then combining.
What is chaining?
100
This is memory of a specific event that took part in your life, like the memory you have of 8th grade graduation.
What is episodic memory?
100
A category of psychological disorders that includes phobias, panic attacks, PTSD, and OCD.
What are anxiety disorders?
200
The largest group of psychologists who deal with psychological problems such as anxiety, depression, or severe psychological disorders.
What are clinical psychologists?
200
Another word for this is your biological clock.
What are circadian rhythms?
200
This *specific* type of reinforcement decreases the frequency of a behavior.
What is punishment?
200
Answer: The three stages of memory.
What is encoding, storage, and retrieval?
200
A disorder that would be characterized by the following traits: inflated self-esteem, inability to sit still or sleep restfully, racing thoughts at some points, and the following traits at other times: loss of interest or pleasure in all, or almost all activities, feelings of worthlessness or unfounded guilt.
What is bipolar disorder?
300
He believed that we should focus on the "cash value" or practical purpose of ideas in psychology and that our experiences are a continuous stream of consciousness.
Who is William James?
300
Your deepest stage of sleep.
What is stage 4 of your sleep cycle?
300
This *specific* component of a type of conditioning increases the frequency of a behavior when *applied*.
What is positive reinforcement?
300
50 First Dates is an example of this type of amnesia. Drew Barrymore's character can not transfer any memories that happen after her car accident to her long-term memory.
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
A degenerative (gets worse over time) category of psychological disorders, often considered the most serious, that includes some of the following symptoms: social withdrawal, impaired social skills, disorganized thought patterns, delusions of grandeur, and hallucinations
What is schizophrenia?
400
A holistic approach to psychology assuming that mental processes are influenced by the interaction of biological, psychological, and social components of psychology.
What is the biopsychosocial perspective?
400
Brainwaves in this stage of sleep resemble that of when you are awake.
What are REM sleep brainwaves?
400
An example of this term would be when you develope a love for all furry animals because you grew up with a very loving and affectionate pet dog.
What is generalization.
400
The reason, according to Sigmund Freud, that we purposefully forget painful or shameful memories, sometimes without even knowing it.
What is repression?
400
This disorder is marked by lack of empathy towards others and a belief that they deserve excessive admiration and recognition from others.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
500
An example of this term is when student grades decrease as the amount of student absences go increase.
What is a negative correlation?
500
__________ occur during stages 3 & 4 of sleep, while _________ occur during REM sleep (in regards to unpleasant dreams)
Night terrors; nightmares
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An example of this term would be the clanging of the steel bars in the Little Albert experiment causing fear in Little Albert initially.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
500
The easiest type of memory task. This explains why multiple choice tests should be the easiest if you are relying on memory and not critical thinking.
What is recognition?
500
People with this *personality* disorder avoid relationships for fear of not fitting in . They are uncomfortable in close relationships rather than uninterested or feeling disregard for others.
What is schizotypal personality disorder?
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