Biological Bases of Behavior
This system is responsible for regulating bodily functions through the release of hormones into the bloodstream.
Endocrine System
Thinking about your own thoughts.
Metacognitition
This person came up with the following stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete, and formal
Piaget
The confidence in your ability to achieve a goal or succeed in a task.
Self-Efficacy
These are the "3 Ds" of abnormal psychology.
Distress, dysfunction, and deviance from the norm
This term describes the brain's capacity to change and adapt throughout life.
Neuroplasticity
A mental framework or structure that organizes and interprets information about the world.
Schema
This occurs before babbling in language development.
Cooing
If you are high in this big five personality trait, people might describe you as gullible.
Agreeableness
This is the approach that most modern clinicians take to treat mental illness - integrating multiple traditional approaches together.
Eclectic
This is the "sensory relay station" in the brain.
Thalamus
Mental shortcuts that reduce cognitive load but can often lead to biased judgements.
Heuristics
In classical conditioning, this is what you call something that elicits a response whether conditioning has occurred or not (e.g. food causing salivation)
Unconditioned stimulus
This suggests that, if you smile, you will feel happier.
The Facial Feedback Hypothesis
Long-term use of antipsychotic medications can cause this neurological condition characterized by involuntary, repetitive, and uncontrollable movements.
Tardive Dyskinesia
The process of converting something, especially energy, from one form to another (e.g. converting sound waves into comprehensible speech)
Transduction
This is when you deepen your understanding and retention of new information by connecting it to existing knowledge and creating meaningful associations.
Elaborative Rehearsal
The idea that behaviors followed by satisfying consequences are more likely to be repeated, while those followed by unsatisfying consequences are less likely
The Law of Effect
This discomfort occurs when a person holds two contradictory ideas or behaviors at once. This motivates them to change their ideas or behaviors to resolve the tension.
Cognitive dissonance.
This is the major distinction between Bipolar I and Bipolar II.
Bipolar I involves manic episodes (as well as depressive and hypomanic episodes) while Bipolar II only oscillates between depressive and hypomanic episodes (less severe).
Prosopagnosia
Retinal disparity and convergence are examples of these.
Binocular cues
The type of operant conditioning schedule that slot machines rely on to keep people wanting to play.
Variable-Ratio Schedule (of Reinforcement)
This concept describes the interaction between a person's behavior, their internal cognitive factors, and their environment. It suggests that these elements mutually influence and are influenced by each other.
Reciprocal Determinism
This character virtue refers to moderation, humility, and self-control.