Unit 1
Russian Psychologist whose experiments with dogs salivating led to classical conditioning principles.
Ivan Pavlov
has to do with loss of ability to speak
Broca's Area
basic sound units
phonemes
Positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior, pulling us toward a goal.
Incentive
anxiety disorder characterized by recurring panic attacks
Panic disorder
Important Austrian psychologist who founded field of psychodynamic psychology.
Sigmund Freud
internal process that regulates sleep-wake cycle and repeats about every 24 hours
Circadian Rhythm
way a problem is shown, posed
Framing
level of alertness, wakefulness, and activation caused by activity in the central nervous system
arousal
disorder described as repetitive inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity.
ADHD
Factor that may change as result of changing the independent variable
Dependent variable
basic unit of function and structure of nervous system
Neuron
failing to think of ways to use an object in different way it's intended to.
functional fixedness
states that we perform best when aroused at right amount, and performance is worse when arousal is too low or too high.
Yerkes-Dodson Rule
Somatic symptom disorder
bodily symptoms with disordered thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors connected to these symptoms
Developed mainly by Sigmund Freud, approach to psych that explain personality, behaviors, disorders, through unconscious desires, conflicts
Psychodynamic/Psychodynamic Approach
Controls the 4 F's (fight, flight, food, fornicating)
Hyptothalamus
tendency to falsely say, after an event, that we correctly predicted the outcome of the event.
Hindsight Bias
conscious experience of emotion with physiological responses at same time.
Cannon-Bard theory
includes paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders
Cluster A
ensures individuals are voluntarily participating in research with full knowledge of risks and benefits
Informed Consent
sleep disorder where one has inability to fall asleep or stay asleep
Insomnia
recalling the last words and the first words best, and forgetting some of the words in the middle.
Serial position effect
consists of everything psychological that's inherited, and psychic energy that powers all 3 systems
Id
Attitude of acceptance , kindness, towards another person no matter what their behavior or beliefs are.
unconditional positive regard