To Describe, Explain, Predict and Change behaviors.
What are the four goals of Psychology?
100
These transmit information through the nervous system.
What is a Neuron?
100
A relatively permanent change in behavior or mental process because of practice or experience.
What is Learning?
100
This major anxiety disorder is classified as a brief attack of intense apprehension.
What is Panic Disorder?
100
Relatively stable and enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is Personality?
200
The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrival of information
What is Memory?
200
This hemisphere of your brain is responsible for language and logic.
What is the Left Hemisphere?
200
The preoperational child’s limited ability to distinguish between his or her perspective and someone else’s
What is Egocentrism?
200
Common in schizophrenia patients, these mistaken beliefs are based on misrepresentation of reality.
What are Delusions?
200
OCEAN is an acronym for this trait model.
What is the Five Factor Model?
300
This model involves sensory memory storage, short term memory storage, and long term memory storage.
What is the three stage memory model?
300
The Nervous System is broken down into these two main subcategories.
What are the Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System?
300
The study of age related changes in behavior and mental processes from conception to death.
What is Developmental Psychology?
300
This is a reliable system that classifies a range of psychological disorders.
What is DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)?
300
He is the founding father of psychoanalytic theories.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
This occurs when the retrieval process does not produce a complete response but produces parts that must be constructed into a whole.
What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?
400
This threshold is related to detecting the smallest amount of something that can be detected.
What is the Absolute Threshold?
400
Learning in which voluntary responses are controlled by their consequences.
What is Operant Conditioning?
400
This mental disorder can make you see things and believe they exist when they do not.
What is schizophrenia?
400
Regression, Repression, and Sublimination are all examples of this.
What are Defense Mechanisms?
500
Explicit/declarative and implicit/nondeclarative are varieties of this kind of memory.
What is Long Term Memory?
500
This type of receptor, found in the fovea, are responsible for seeing color.
What are cones?
500
Cognitive structures or patterns consisting of a number of organized ideas that grow and differentiate with experience. The most basic units of intellect.
What are Schemas?
500
"Eeek! A spider" is a representation of this anxiety disorder subtype.
What is a Specific Phobia?
500
When someone pushes ahead to get food this part of their personality is dominating the situation.