Learning and Conditioning
This psychologists name should ring a bell with his association to classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov
This is the current diagnostics manual for psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-5
This form of motivation is influenced by factors including tangible rewards
What is extrinsic motivation
The tendency for people to adapt their behaviors, attitudes, and opinions to fit the actions of other members of a group.
What is conformity
The basic debate of developmental psychology centers around these two influences playing the biggest role in one's development.
What is nature vs nurture.
This form of conditioning takes place after the behavior has occurred.
What is operant conditioning
This disorder is marked by sudden and severe anxiety attacks that have no obvious connections with events in the person’s life
What is panic disorder
This is the number of recognized basic human emotions (also the name of a good suspense/thriller movie).
What is Seven
Our tendency to overemphasize personal traits while minimizing situational influences.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE)
This is our sense of controlling our environments rather than feeling helpless
What is Locus of Control
In classical conditioning, the inability to distinguish between similar stimuli is called this.
What is generalization
This psychological disorder has four different types: Paranoid, Disorganized, Catatonic, and Undifferentiated.
What is Schizophrenia
This law of psychological emotion explains why quality of performance can decrease when emotional levels are too elevated.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law
These are the four sources of attraction, according to Attraction Theory
What is Proximity, Similarity, Self-disclosure, and physical attraction.
Suspending someone's license for drunk driving is an example of what kind of reinforcement?
What is negative punishment
This psychological disorder is a combination of flight and amnesia, with some episodes lasting only a couple of days or as long as a couple of years.
What is dissociative fugue
In Freud's theory of personality this is "the primitive, unconscious reservoir that houses the basic motives".
What is Id
This theory states that when people’s cognitions and actions are in conflict, they often reduce the conflict by changing their thinking to fit their behavior.
What is Cognitive Dissonance Theory.
This type of learning is when one is subjected to a stimuli in their everyday environment over a course of time
What is Mere Exposure
This classification of drugs is has two main categories, barbiturates and benzodiazepines
What are anti-anxiety medications
These are the five factors of the Five Factor Theory of Personality (think CANOE).
What are openness to experience, consciousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
Isolation of the group, high group cohesiveness, and directive leadership are all values that can influence this social psychology principle.
What is Groupthink
This theory states that people decide to pursue a relationship by weighing the potential value of the relationship against their chances of succeeding in that relationship
What is the Expectancy Value Theory