Abnormal Psychology+ Treatment
A disorder characterized by hallucinations and delusions, other symptoms include word salad, incongruent speech, etc.
What is schizophrenia?
Intelligence that declines as people age; related to abstract thought and reasoning.
What is fluid intelligence?
a region in the brain associated with the fight or flight response, as well as controlling emotions like fear and anger
What is the amygdala?
Measure of central tendency taken by averaging scores
What is the mean?
Credited as the founder of psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
A disorder involving unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions)
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? (OCD)
stage of cognitive development during which children develop object permeance
What is the sensorimotor stage?
the brain region responsible for converting short term memory into long term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
The effect to which one's expecations infleunce the results of an experiment.
What is the placebo effect?
Sleep stage during which vivid dreaming occurs
What is REM sleep?
Albert Ellis's confrontational cognitive therapy that bluntly challenged one's absurd beliefs.
What is Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?
The stage of psychosocial development during which adolescents develop their sense of self.
What is Identity vs Role Confusion?
The brain region responsible for regulating breathing and heart beat.
What is the medulla?
Research design in which a group of participants are studied for a long range of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
Type of drug that slows neural activity, additionally associated with poor judgment and memory loss.
What is Alcohol?
a biomedical treatment for bipolar disorder
What are mood stabilizers (Lithium, Depakote)?
A reinforcement schedule that reacts to a behavior every time it occurs
What is fixed-ratio operant conditioning?
Enables a person to control physiological responses that are normally involuntary
What is the biofeedback?
Research technique used to minimize effects of confounding variables
What is random assignment?
the interacting influences of behavior, cognition, and our environment in a situation
What is reciprocal determinism?
A risky last resort treatment for persistant depression, associated with a risk of memory loss.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
The non-linear function that estimates the speed at which information is forgotten.
What is the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve?
A region in the hypothalamus that is responsible for regulating control over our circadian rhythms.
What is the superchiasmic nucleus?
Percentage of data that is included in the first and second standard deviations of a normal curve
What is 95%
when a quick succession of images in series create the illusion of movement
What is the phi phenomenon?