Biopsychology
A limbic structure that serves as the brain's blood-testing laboratory, constantly monitoring the blood to determine the condition of the body.
What is the hypothalamus?
In classical conditioning, a response elicited by a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with the unconditioned stimulus.
What is a conditioned response?
The onset of sexual maturity.
What is puberty?
The inability to form memories for new information.
What is anterograde amnesia?
A group of anxiety disorders involving a pathological fear of a specific object or situation.
What are phobias?
A system containing the amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, and hypothalamus.
What is the limbic system?
A schedule of reinforcement: You get paid the same amount on Friday every week.
What is a fixed interval schedule?
In order, name the stages of Elizabeth Kubler Ross's 5 stage theory of grief.
What is denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance?
The three memory stages from smallest capacity to largest capacity.
What is sensory memory, working memory, and long term memory?
Formerly called multiple personality disorder.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
The hemisphere of the brain that uses logic, analytical thinking, reasoning, numbers, and language.
What is the left hemisphere?
You have sweet potatoes for dinner one night and get sick right after because of a virus. Now you avoid sweet potatoes because of the bad experience.
What is taste-aversion learning?
If little Mary understands conservation but is still incapable of abstract thought, Mary is in...
What is the concrete operational stage?
Holds typically around 7 items of information or less in an active state for a short period of time.
What is short term memory?
American activist who successfully pressured by makers to construct and fund asylums for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Too little of this neurotransmitter causes depression.
What is serotonin?
This Russian physiologist pioneered research in classical conditioning in a famous experiment with dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This psychologist studied attachment in monkeys with artificial mothers.
Who is Harry Harlow?
This psychologist memorized nonsense syllables in an early study on human memory.
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
The symptoms of OCD include...
What is persistent repetition of words or actions, impulsivity, compulsive behavior, and repetitive movements?
As Jill walked towards the stage to give her speech, her heartbeat accelerated, her blood pressure rose, and she began to sweat. Jill's state of arousal was activated by ______ of the nervous system.
What is the sympathetic division?
Through direct experience with animals, small children come to anticipate that dogs will bark and that birds will chirp. This best illustrates the psychological learning concept:
What is associative learning?
Although three-year-old Austin happily explores the colorful toys located in the doctor's office's waiting room, he periodically returns to his mother side for brief moments Austin is most clearly displaying:
What is secure attachment?
The following rehearsal strategy would be most effective of remembering the name of someone you just met.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
During the manic phase of bipolar disorder, individuals are most likely to experience:
What is high self-esteem?