Biopsychology
The specialty in psychology that studies the interaction of biology, behavior, and mental processes?
Biopsychology
A lasting change in behavior or mental processes that results from experience?
Learning
Exhibited by a test that measures what it purports to measure?
Validity
Anxiety Disorders involving the pathological fear of a specific object?
Phobias
A branch of psychology that studies the effects of social variables and cognitions on individual behavior and social interactions?
Social Psychology
What characterizes physical characteristics of organisms
Phenotype
A learned preference for stimuli to which we have been previously exposed?
Mere Exposure Effect
How is IQ measured?
Mental Age/ Chronological Age x100
A mood disorder caused by a deprivation of sunlight?
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
According to Aronson, we can explain almost everything about interpersonal attraction with a theory of?
Rewards.
Also known as an afferent neuron?
Sensory Neuron
Ivan Pavlov experimented with what animal?
A Dog
What ages do the Concrete Operational Stage span through?
from 7-11
The classification system used most widely accepted psychiatric?
DSM-V
Stanley Milgram tested what in his shock experiment?
Obedience
Which lobe controls movement and thinking?
Frontal Lobe
Operant Conditioning uses ______ and _____ as consequences for behavior?
Rewards and Punishments.
Carl Rogers was a type of ______?
Therapist
In the 18th Century, people viewed a disorder as a _____?
Disease
Soloman Ash used a picture of _____ to illustrate conformity.
Lines
What was the evidence that led Darwin to his radical conclusion about the evolution of organisms?
Which Schedule of reinforcements do most jobs use?
Fixed Interval Schedules
Switching theories to explain different situations or building one's own theory of personality from pieces borrowed from many perspectives?
Eclectic
in about 400 B.C. Hippocrates taught that psychopathology was the cause of an imbalance of?
Humors
As the number of people in a social group increases, _________ decreases.
Diffusion of Responsibility