Biology
Chemical messengers that transmit signals across the synapse
What are neurotransmitters?
A mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people
What is a concept?
The period of physical and psychological development changes that occur during one's teenage years.
What is adolescence?
The unselfish regard for the good of others
What is altruism?
An anxiety disorder that revolves around persistent and irrational fears for a specific object, activity, or situation
What is a phobia?
A neurotransmitter often associated with mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal.
What is serotonin?
A step-by-step procedure for solving a problem
What is an algorithm?
The period of a child's life from around birth to two years old where they develop basic motor skills and sensory abilities.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The effect where individuals are less likely to help someone in need of an emergency while in the presence of others.
What is the bystander effect?
A condition that involves experiencing depressive symptoms during specific times in the year, most commonly winter.
What is seasonal affect disorder?
A part of the brain that is responsible for forming new memories
What is the hippocampus?
The tendency to overestimate one's own abilities and accuracy of their beliefs.
What is overconfidence?
The psychologist that is well known for their theory on the four stages of cognitive development
Who is Jean Piaget?
An effect that occurs while in exposure to someone or something increasing liking.
What is the mere-exposure effect?
A mood disorder that alternates between periods of depression and mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
The outer layer of the brain that is responsible for high level cognitive functions
What is the cerebral cortex?
Estimating the likeliness of an event occurring based on one's own memory
What is the availability heuristic?
Information that is already learned such as facts, vocabulary, and general knowledge.
What is Crystallized Intelligence?
The phenomenon that is used by asking a small favor first while leading to larger and larger requests.
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
A type of therapy used to help people identify and change negative though patterns
What is cognitive behavior therapy/CBT?
What are the adrenal glands?
What is functional fixedness?
The theory that suggests children develop skills and knowledge through their environmental factors.
What is the sociocultural theory?
A famous experiment following after WWII that was used to research the extent of conformity where people obey to authoritative figures.
What is the Milgram experiment?
A diagnostic manual used by mental health professionals and psychologists in the United States
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?