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_________ is a person's reaction to his or her ability to cope with a certain tense event or situation.
Stress
An excessive or irrational fear out of proportion to the actual danger.
Phobic Disorder
How many personalities was Shirley Ardell Mason said to have?
16
Often referred to as the "Father of Psychology"
William James
Messages travel along nerves which are strings of long, thin cells. What are they called?
Neurons
What two different types of stress did Canadian Researcher, Hans Selye, distinguish between?
Distress and Eustress
Fear of crowded or public space.
Agoraphobia
Having to do with an organism's physical processes.
Physiological Processes
Which lobe processes visual signals.
Occipital
Sensory neurons that relay messages from the sense organs to the brain.
Afferent neurons
Refers to our immediate evaluation of a situation.
Primary Appraisal
Between PTSD and Acute Anxiety Disorder, which is less extreme and last only a few days?
Acute Anxiety Disorder
Having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding.
Cognitive Processes
Which lobe is concerned with hearing, memory, emotion, and speaking?
Temporal
A machine used to record the electrical activity of large portions of the brain.
EEG
Which occurs when we evaluate the different options for coping with stress in a slower and more deliberate way?
Secondary Appraisal
Separation of certain personality component or mental processes from conscious thought.
Dissociative Disorder
The study of behavior and mental processes.
Psychology
The nerves branching beyond the spinal cord and into the body.
Peripheral Nervous System
Is the study of how humans mature and why they develop as they do.
Developmental Psychology
Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders
DSM-5
Involves the existence of two or more personalities within a single individual.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
An assumption or prediction about behavior that is scientifically tested.
Hypothesis
What two parts make up the central Nervous System?
the brain and spinal cord
All fetal organs are present by....
5 weeks.