A medical doctor who has clinical training and can diagnose phisical and neurological causes of abnormal behavior and treat them with prescription drugs
What is a psychiatrist?
100
"daddy psycho", established the first psychology laboratory
What is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
the school of psychology associated with freud that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal and childhood conflicts in determining human behavior
What is psychoanalytic?
100
a general state of uneasiness that occurs in response to a vague or imagined danger
What is anxiety?
100
relitively short period of intese fear or discomfort, characterized by shortness of breath, dizziness, rapid heart rate, trembling, shaking, sweating, etc
What is panic attack?
200
the hypothesis that states people tend to choose friends and partners that are similar to themselves in attractiveness
What is matching hypothesis?
200
the perspective that focuses on how processing, storing, and retrieving information influences our behavior
What is Cognitive?
200
the perspective that believed psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without refrenses to mental processes
What is behaviorism?
200
repetitive ritual behaviors, often involving checking or cleaning something
What is compulsion?
200
the psychological process through which we interpret sensory stimulation
What is perception?
300
a persuasive technique where people agreeeing to small request which will lead to complying with a larger request later
What is foot-in-the-door technique?
300
a social science that scientifically studies behavior and mental processes
What is psychology?
300
the ability to invent new solutions to problems
What is creativity?
300
separation of certain personality components or mental processes from conscious thought
What is dissociation?
300
the stimulation of sensory receptors and the transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system
What is sensation?
400
the procedure used when neither participants nor researchers directly working with the participants know which group is recieving which treatment
What is blind studies?
400
a research method that yields information from a large group of people about their opinions or behavor at considerably lower costs than laboratory experiments
What is survey?
400
giving an advantage to a particular group of people
What is culturally biased?
400
intense, persistent feelings of anxiety that are caused by an experience so traumatic that it would produce stress in almost anyone
What is post-tramatic stress disorder?
400
ability to learn
What is intelligence?
500
adjusting our behavior or thinking toward some group standard in an attempt to avoid rejection or gain social approval; Soloman Asch did a famous study involving line lengths to prove this
What is conformity?
500
emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal and childhood conflicts; associated with Freud
What is psychoanalysis?
500
a change brought about by new information
What is accomodation?
500
a part of a persons personality that seems reasonably stable
What is trait?
500
the process by which new information is placed into categories that already exist