History of Psychology
This perspective emphasizes how behavior and mental processes are shaped by natural selection.
What is the evolutionary perspective?
When a stimulus is below the absolute threshold but still influences behavior, this effect is occurring.
What is subliminal perception?
This type of memory lasts about 20–30 seconds without rehearsal.
What is short-term memory?
Manic and depressive episodes define this disorder?
What is bipolar disorder?
Excessive worry occurring more days than not for at least six months characterizes this disorder.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
This humanistic psychologist developed the hierarchy of needs
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This depth cue involves the slight difference between what each eye sees.
What is binocular disparity?
In classical conditioning, the natural, automatic reaction to an unconditioned stimulus is called this.
What is the unconditioned response?
Persistent difficulty with attention and/or hyperactivity defines this disorder.
ADHD
The brain structure involved in forming new explicit memories is this.
What is the hippocampus?
This movement in psychology emphasized free will and personal growth in response to behaviorism and psychoanalysis.
What is humanistic psychology?
The just noticeable difference between two stimuli is explained by this law.
What is Weber's Law?
Remembering the first items in a list best reflects this effect.
What is the primacy effect?
The electrical signal that travels down the axon is called this.
This branch of the nervous system activates the fight-or-flight response
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This psychologist emphasized unconditional positive regard in client-centered therapy.
Perception influenced by expectations and prior knowledge is called this type of processing.
What is top-down processing?
Removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase a behavior is called this.
What is negative reinforcement?
This personality disorder is characterized by instability in relationships, self-image, and emotions.
What is borderline personality disorder?
A persistent pattern of disregard for the rights of others characterizes this personality disorder.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
This type of reinforcement schedule produces high, steady rates of responding and is resistant to extinction — like gambling.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
The opponent-process theory explains perception of these paired colors.
What are red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white?
This theory proposes that long-term memories are stored through changes in synaptic connections.
What is long-term potentiation?
Disorganized speech and flat affect are examples of this category of schizophrenia symptoms.
What are negative symptoms?
This structure connects the 2 hemispheres of the brain
What is the corpus callosum?