Personality
The set of thoughts, feelings, traits, and behaviors that are characteristic of a person and consistent over time and in different situations
What is Personality?
Located at the front portion of the brain and is home to many important brain structures including the primary motor cortex, prefrontal cortex, and Broca’s area
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Can't fall asleep
What is Insomnia?
Awareness of ourselves and our surroundings
What is consciousness?
Founder of psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
A kind of personality theory that organizes people into different sorts of individuals
What is Type Theory?
Regulates consciousness, sleep and wakefulness, feeding and satisfaction and alertness
What is the Thalamus?
Always falling asleep
What is Narcolepsy?
24hr cycle that controls our daily schedule or sleeping and waking up
What is Sleep Pattern?
Known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Focuses on what makes us uniquely human, such as emotions and freedom to choose our own destiny
What is Humanistic?
Regulates the autonomic nervous system by producing and releasing hormones.
What is the Hypothalamus?
Stop breathing while sleeping
What is Apnea?
Heart rate rises, breathing becomes irregular, eyes dart around every half minute, body is paralyzed
What is REM Stage?
Discovered that newly hatched goslings would follow the first moving object they saw, also known as imprinting
Who is Konrad Lorenz?
The idea from the social cognitive perspective that thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and environment all influence each other in determining a person’s actions in a given situation
What is Reciprocal Determinism?
Vital for long-term memory formation
What is the Hippocampus?
Person alternates between depressive and manic episodes
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Daydreaming, drowsiness, dreaming
What is Spontaneously?
Demonstrated the importance of love and affection, specifically contact comfort, for healthy childhood development
Who is Harry Harlow?
Defense mechanism where one reverts to childish behaviors
What is Regression?
Plays a role in motor control and movement including balance, subtle movement, and equilibrium
What is the Cerebellum?
Characterized by less intense symptoms associated with a manic disorder
What is Hypomania?
Hallucinations, food or oxygen starvations
What is Physiologically?
Known for his theory on multiple intelligences
Who is Howard Gardner?