The scientific study of behavior and mental process
What is Psychology?
100
the process of detecting physical energies from the environment and convert it into neural signals?
What is Sensation?
100
An eating disorder in which a normal weight person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
100
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats
What is Token Economy?
100
Considered the "Father of modern psychiatry"
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
A predicted explanation that can be tested
What is a Hypothesis
200
Failure to breathe when asleep
What is Sleep Apnea?
200
A self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype.
What is the Stereotype Threat?
200
A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania
What is Bipolar Disorder?
200
Used operant conditioning chambers in testing
Who is B.F. Skinner?
300
This part of the brain controls heartbeat and breathing
What is the Medulla?
300
Organizing items into a familiar, manageable unit
What is Chunking?
300
Emotional release.
What is catharsis?
300
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
What is Generalized anxiety disorder?
300
Conducted the prison experiment at Stanford University
Who is Phillip Zimbardo?
400
This theory proposes that we learn a cultural "recipe" of gender behavior
What is Gender Schema Theory?
400
What drugs are considered depressants?
Alcohol, Opiates, and Barbiturates
400
A simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently
What is a Heuristic?
400
The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.
What is Social Loafing?
400
Created the theory of Universal Grammar.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
500
What is the term used for Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation?
What is Habituation?
500
What part of the brain is the neural center in the limbic
system and also processes explicit memories?
What is the Hippocampus?
500
The two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system
What are Lymphocytes?
500
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.