Conditioning
This method of conditioning was discovered by Ivan Pavlov when the sound of bell associated with food caused his dogs' mouths to water.
What is Classical Conditioning?
Any physical behavior intended to hurt or destroy.
What is Aggression?
This part of the brain is the "loading dock" for memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
This disorder is associated with unconditional sadness and a lack of purpose, often associated with too little serotonin.
What is Depression?
This approach of therapy would try to understand your current symptoms through your unconscious thoughts and childhood experiences.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
When a conditioned response fades after not being met.
What is extinction?
The principle that we naturally become attracted to people we are around often.
What is the Mere Exposure Effect?
The act of forgetting old memories after brain damage.
What is Retrograde Amnesia?
This disorder is associated with destruction of memories and other mental functions, and onsets later in life.
What is Alzheimer's?
This approach of therapy would use unconditional positive regard to help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
What is Humanistic Therapy?
This type of conditioning follows Thorndike's theory of behavior being strengthened when reinforced and weakened if punished.
What is Operant Conditioning?
When analyzing others behavior, we tend to blame the person and not the situation.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
The process of bringing memories from our Long Term Memory Storage into our Working Memory.
What is Retrieval?
This disorder is associated with malfunctions in the nervous system, leading to uncontrollable twitches, movements, or sounds.
What is Tourette Syndrome?
This approach of therapy would apply learning principles to get rid of unwanted behavior.
What is Behavioral Therapy?
Taking away a negative stimuli for providing a positive stimuli.
What is a reward?
When our attitudes and actions do not align, we tend to change our attitudes to fit our actions to reduce this.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
The tendency to remember the items at the beginning and end of a list
What is the Serial Position Effect?
This disorder is associated with the body feeling sick with no diagnosable symptoms.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?
This approach of therapy teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and works on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
In Operant Conditioning, this reinforcement schedule that provides a reinforcer at an unpredictable time and after a unpredictable number of responses, and often yields high rates of responses.
What is a Variable-Ratio Schedule?
This psychologist ran the Stanford Prison Experiment and is also a sexy beast.
Who is Phil Zimbardo?
This area of the brain controls language comprehension and expression.
What is Wernicke's Area?
What is a phobia?
This approach to therapy focuses on treating the body to help the mind, often through drugs or brain stimulation techniques.
What is Biomedical Therapies?