Drugs
What is a tolerance?
When a drug's effect decreases after a person is repeatedly exposed to a psychoactive drug.
What is learning?
Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences.
Who was the American psychologist widely known for his hierarchy of needs theory?
Maslow
The ability to sense and respond to danger and fear lies in this part of the brain.
The amygdala is a part of the brain that plays a crucial role in processing emotions, particularly fear and danger.
What is unconditioned stimulus?
a stimulus that leads to an automatic response.
The three major categories of psychoactive drugs? You need all three!
depressants, stimulants and hallucinogens
what is the bell is Pavlov's experiment that was considered one of these?
neutral stimulus
What was Maslow's most popular book?
Motivation and Personality
The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.
Amnesia
What is conditioned response?
This narcotic drug that leads to physiological dependence and the development of tolerance; derivatives are morphine, heroine, and codeine.
Opium
When you get an A+becuase you worked hard on an assignment, what form of operant conditioning is being used?
Positive Reinforcement
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
Humanistic Theory
This part of the brain is responsible for directing incoming information to the correct center(s) where it will be interpreted.
The thalamus is a part of the brain that acts as a relay station for incoming sensory information.
What is stimulus?
a detectable change in the physical or chemical structure of an organism's internal or external environment.
A stimulant, this drug has the potential for both a psychological and physiological dependence. This drug boosts mental alertness, reduces the need for sleep, induces a pleasurable rush, and causes a loss of appetite.
Amphetamines
Learning that is through observation, language, and or other mental functions?
Cognitive Learning
Lawrence Kohlberg founded this theory
Theory of Moral Development
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
Neurotransmitter
What is condition stimuli?
a stimulus that can eventually trigger a conditioned response.
Rapid discontinuation of antidepressants can cause these symptoms?
What is personal-limitation and the ability to manage impulses?
self-control
The Hierarchy of Needs theory, proposed by Abraham Maslow, consists of how many levels of motivation? What are they?
5 and physiological needs, safety needs, love and belongingness needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.
Without this structure, one would be unable to form new memories.
The hippocampus is a structure in the brain that plays a crucial role in the formation of new memories.
What is unconditional response?
A conditioned stimulus is a stimulus that can eventually trigger a conditioned response.