Unit 1
Mental illnesses revolve around the structural problems in the brain along with functional issues.
What is The Behavioral Approach?
Sympathize with what you’re experiencing.
What is the Sympathetic Branch?
A way to measure the activity in the regions of the brain.
What is PET scan?
Allows the brain to recognize familiar object as being a consistent color under any light.
What is Color Constancy?
Created an 8-stage theory to show how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting "Who am I?"
Who is Erik Erikson?
Ruminative thinking faulty logic issues or processing information
The therapy includes talk therapy or homework or R.E.B.T.
What is Cognitive Approach?
is almost like a parachute and it brings your body back to a normal state.
What is the Parasympathetic Branch?
inhibitory neurotransmitter.
What is a chronicle messenger of the nervous system that decreases the likelihood that the next neuron in the chain will “are” or receive in the Econ potential?
perceptual grouping principles that help to bring organize the world.
What is Gestalt Cues?
Maintained that Köhlberg's work was developed by only observing boys and overlooked potential differences between the habitual moral judgments of boys and girls; girls focus more on relationships than laws and principles
Who is Carol Gilligan?
This mental illness might be due to conforming to the wrong role example a teenager who doesn’t conform to the role of a teenager.
What is The sociocultural Approach?
one of the major lobes in the brain, roughly located at the upper back area in the skull. It processes sensory information it receives from the outside world, mainly relating to touch, taste, and temperature.
What is the parietal lobe?
A group of people from whom the participants will be chosen.
What is Population?
the idea of an intensity of a stimulus is weak a very small change and that stimulus will be noticeable or vice versa
What is Webster's law?
Contributions: created techniques to manipulate the consequences of an organism's behavior in order to observe the effects of subsequent behavior; Studies: Skinner box
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Mental illness is due to unconscious pressures possibly from conflict between societies rules in a persons urges :fighting, fleeing, feeding, and fornication.
What is the Psychodynamic Approach?
stages of consciousness
What is Alpha brain waves, Beta brain waves, Theta Brain waves, and Delta Brian waves?
A serious disease that affects cognition perception.
What is Schizophrenia?
A spot in the middle of the retina and is where light-sensitive cells known as corneas are located
What is the Fovea?
Contributions: created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development, said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)
Who is Jean Piaget?
an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
All motor sense except smell passes through here.
What is Thalamus?
area where nerve enters the eye.
What is Blindspot?
Unlearned Stimulus
What is Unconditioned?
Contributions: criticized Freud, stated that personality is molded by current fears and impulses, rather than being determined solely by childhood experiences and instincts, neurotic trends
Who is Karen Horney?