Intro to Psych
The founder of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
The lobe of the brain involved in visual processing.
occipital lobe
Sleep when we have rapid eye movement and have dreams
REM Sleep
The word for how we interpret the world around us.
perception
A type of conditioning that involves punishments and reinforcements.
operant conditioning
The first stage in the memory process
encoding
What needs are we motivated by according to Drive Reduction Theory
biological needs
The need humans are born with to form a bond with their caregiver.
Mood disorder
The father of modern psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
The lobe of the brain involved in our sense of touch, pain, etc.
parietal lobe
alpha waves
This is our most dominating sense.
vision
A schedule of reinforcement that involves a reward after a specific amount of time has passed
fixed interval
The stage in our memory process in which we have to get information from our memory storage
retrieval
This theory says that our emotions and physiological responses to stimuli happen independently of each other.
Cannon-Bard Theory
The psychologist that was known for creating stages of development in children.
1. Sensorimotor
2. Preoperational
3. Concrete operational
4. Formal operational
Jean Piaget
Behavioral
The branch of psychology that focuses on the way people think.
cognitive psychology
The part of the brain involved in relaying messaging to the other parts of our brain.
You experience sleep spindles during this stage of sleep.
Stage 2
This is the colored part of our eye surrounding the pupil.
iris
A response that is natural after an unconditioned stimulus is presented, such as a dog salivating when it sees food.
unconditioned response
Another word for short term memory
working memory
The theory of emotion that says emotions are brought on by physiological arousal and cognitive processes.
Singer-Schacter or Two Factor Theory
The psychologist that found out about attachment theory after studying monkeys and their need for contact comfort from their mother rather than food.
Henry Harlow
Multiple distinct identities or personalities
Dissociative identity disorder
The branch of psychology that focuses on behaviors of individuals and changing those behaviors.
The part of our brain involved in processing our memories.
hippocampus
Another word for sleep walking
somnambulism
Type of deafness in which sound waves cannot reach the inner ear.
conduction deafness
This psychologist created classical conditioning after his study on dogs.
Ivan Pavlov
A multiple choice question test would be an example of this. Similar to when we had to find the names of the seven dwarves from a list of possible names.
recognition
This is when we as human realize our full potential according to Abraham Maslow.
self-actualization
The idea that animals develop a close bond with animals they interact with hours after they are born.
imprinting
This approach to treating disorders would be treating the individual with medicine
Biological, Biomedicine, Neurological
This psychologist created the Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow
The path a neurotransmitter takes through a neuron. Include 4 parts of the neuron.
1. dendrite
2. soma (cell body)
3. axon
4. axon terminal
Name the 3 categories of drugs.
1. Stimulant
2. Hallucinogen
3. Depressant
The experiment in which we found that depth perception develops when we learn to crawl as babies
Visual Cliff Experiment
This psychologist conducted the Bobo Doll Experiment in which he found that children were more likely to be aggressive towards the Bobo Doll if they saw someone else model that behavior.
Albert Bandura
A vivid memory of a stressful event from the past, such as remembering where you were when a close one passed.
Flashbulb memory
A person's need for achievement such accomplishment or mastery of skills is what motivates us according to this theory.
Achievement Motivation Theory
From birth to 2 years old, at this stage we are developing object permanence.
Sensorimotor
What does OCD stand for?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder