Biological Bases of Behavior
The gap between 2 neurons.
What is the synaptic gap
The process of information being recieved and processed
What is encoding?
Assosciating an involuntary response with a stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
The part of the mind containing thoughts, feelings and memories outside of conscious awareness.
What is the unconcious
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders which provides a common language for the classification of mental disorders
What is the DSM V (5)
The medical imaging scan that takes detailed pictures of the brain
The holding and retention of encoded information
What is storage
The response that happens without any conditioning or tampering and is a natural response
What is the unconditioned response (UCR)
The primitive and instinctual part of our mind containing thoughts feelings that are driven by the pleasure principle
What is the Id
The branch of psychology that focuses on the study of human strengths, well-being, and optimal functioning.
What is positive psychology?
The thick brand of fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?rff
The phenonmenon that explains us to remember the first and last terms in a list or sequence
What is the serial positioning effect?
The gradual weakening and eventual dissipation of a learned response
Carl Rogers concept of accepting and valuing a person's behavior regardless of their behavior
What is unconditional positive regard?
A framework for understanding and treating illness that focuses on identifying and treating biological causes of disease.
What is the medical model
The disease that comes from the deterioration of the myelin sheath
What is myesthenia gravis?
The habit of unconsciously activating recall without knowing
What is Priming?
When someone is continuously rewarded for showing the correct or praised response to a stimulus
What is continuous reinforcement
The tendency to attribute positive outcomes to internal factors and negative outcomes to external factors.
What is self serving bias
Three stage process (Alarm, resistance, exhaustion) describing the bodies response to stress
What is general adaption syndrome
The most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter
What is glutamate?
The way in which a question is worded can change and influence the person’s answer or response
What is framing?
Learning to do an action to prevent something bad from happening
What is avoidance learning
A test created by analyzing data from a large group of people to identify patterns and relationships between items and overall scored
What is an empirically derived test
The process of releasing strong or repressed hormones or feelings onto something else
What is catharsis