Memory & The Brain
This stage of memory involves taking in information and converting it into a usable form.
What is encoding?
Learning through association between two stimuli is called this.
What is classical conditioning?
This debate focuses on whether genetics or environment shapes behavior.
What is nature vs. nurture?
This is known as the dictionary/encyclopedia/Bible of psychological disorders.
What is the DSM?
This brain structure is essential for forming new explicit memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This type of learning uses rewards and punishments to shape behavior.
What is operant conditioning?
Erikson’s theory focuses on this type of development across the lifespan.
What is psychosocial development?
What are the 4 Ds of a Psychological Disorder?
What is deviance, distress, dysfunction, and danger?
Remembering how to ride a bike is an example of this type of memory.
What is procedural memory?
Removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase behavior is called this.
What is negative reinforcement?
In adolescence, Erikson proposed a conflict between identity and this.
What is role confusion?
This type of therapy is particularly helpful in identity formation and is grounded in unconditional positive regard.
What is humanistic therapy?
This brain structure helps attach emotional significance to memories, especially fear.
What is the amygdala?
Learning by watching and imitating others is known as this theory.
What is social learning theory?
This personality model includes openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
What are the Big Five traits?
This therapy places a strong emphasis on exploring early-life experiences.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
This famous amnesia patient could not form new memories but could still play piano.
Who is Clive Wearing?
A child watches a sibling manage stress calmly and copies that behavior—this is an example of what type of learning?
What is social learning?
A theory emphasizing unconscious drives and early childhood experiences is this perspective.
What is the psychodynamic theory?
This therapy focuses on changing negative thought patterns.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?