Something that gives life purpose and directs our choices.
What are goals?
100
Your overall opinion of about whether you are good, bad, worthy, or unworthy.
What is self esteem?
100
The essence of all neural activity.
What is communication?
100
This idea explains why you and your Uncle Larry both love to be the center of attention at family parties.
What is behavioral genetics?
100
Consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
What is personality?
200
Whatever is in your mind at the moment?
What is consciousness?
200
Self knowledge we consciously know and can describe.
What is declarative knowledge?
200
A surgical intervention for Parkinson's Disease that involves targeting the substantia nigra with electrodes.
What is Deep Brain Stimulation?
200
This population is often used in heritability studies.
What are twins?
200
This type of assessment asks participants to interpret meaningless or ambiguous stimulus to provide a window into hidden or unconscious thoughts, feelings, needs, etc.
What are projective tests?
300
Goals unique to an individual
What is idiographic?
300
Your view of what you could be at your best.
What is your ideal self?
300
This neurotransmitter is relevant to personality traits of extraversion, impulsivity and is release into your brain every time you check your phone for texts.
What is dopamine?
300
This theory explains why females in 2013 go to the bathroom in pairs even though they are safe from saber tooth tigers.
What is evolutionary psychology?
300
One of the most common objective personaltiy measures that includes a hypochondriasis scale.
What is the MMPI or Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
400
Concepts that come to mind easily after being consistently or recently activated.
What is priming?
400
All the ideas you have about yourself, organized into a coherent system.
What is self-schema?
400
This glucocorticoid hormone, part of the fight or flight response is often called the stress hormone.
What is cortisol?
400
This was the idea behind Hitler's attempt at ridding the world of Jews and breeding a pure Aryan race.
What is eugenics?
400
The principle that allows a large number of items or different measures to be combined and averaged.
What is aggregation?
500
This system is likely to dominate when you are under stress.
What is the experiential system?
500
Enhancement of LTM that comes from thinking about how information relates to the self.
What is the self-reference effect?
500
The area of the brain involved with emotional regulation, self-control and social understanding.
What are the frontal lobes?
500
At the end of the day, most scientists believe this is necessary for genes to influence the development of certain behaviors.
What is environment or the gene-environment interaction?
500
Using this method of test construction, a researcher studying social media habits asks participants to rate the amount of time they spend on facebook each day.