Unit 01 Biology
This is the division of the peripheral nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement.
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
This is a mental image or the best example of a category that people use to organize and classify information.
What is a Prototype?
This is the big theme in developmental psychology: "Is human development a gradual process or does it occur in distinct, defined stages？"
What is "Continuity vs Discontinuity"?
This term refers to an individual’s unique and consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
This branch of psychology, pioneered by Martin Seligman, studies human strengths, well-being, and happiness rather than just mental illness.
What is Positive Psychology?
This is where photoreceptors(cones and rods) are located in your eyes.
What is the Retina?
This cognitive shortcut leads people to judge the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples come to mind.
What is Availability Heuristics
This is any harmful substance or environmental agent, such as alcohol or certain drugs, that can cross the placental barrier and negatively affect prenatal development.
What is a Teratogen?
This theory explains how people try to understand the causes of others’ behavior, such as whether it is due to personality or the situation.
What is Attribution Theory?
This type of disorder typically appears early in childhood and affects the development of the brain, leading to difficulties in learning, communication, or behavior.
What is a neurodevelopmental disorder?
What is Glutamate?
This type of emotionally charged episodic memory is characterized by high confidence and vivid detail.
This is the stage of Piaget's Cognitive development theory when children start to develop symbolic thinking.
What is the Preoperational Stage(2-6)?
A student who is secretly angry at a classmate accuses the classmate of being hostile toward them. This defense mechanism involves attributing one’s own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to others.
What is Projection?
A patient with this kind of mood disorder experiences alternating periods of extreme euphoria, high energy, and impulsive behavior, followed by episodes of deep sadness, low energy, and hopelessness.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This theory proposes that pain signals carried by small nerve fibers can be inhibited in the spinal cord by competing sensory input and descending neural signals from the brain.
What is the Gate-Control Theory of Pain?
After learning a new phone password, a student repeatedly enters the new password when trying to recall their old one. This illustrates a memory process in which newly learned information disrupts the retrieval of previously stored information.
What is Retroactive Interference?
How many morphemes does the word 'Schizophrenically' have?
Schizo-phren-ic-al-ly
This social rule, which guides people to return favors or concessions, makes customers, after receiving a free sample of a snack at a store, feel obligated to buy something in return.
What is the Reciprocity Norm?
A patient with schizophrenia remains motionless in a rigid posture for hours, unresponsive to questions or external stimuli. This extreme reduction or lack of voluntary movement is a symptom known as what?
What is Catatonia?
This class of retinal neurons encodes opponent color channels and shows neural adaptation after prolonged stimulation, producing color afterimages that support the opponent-process theory.
What are Ganglion Cells?
A 25-year-old adult quickly identifies patterns in a novel logic puzzle but performs no better than average on a vocabulary test, while a 65-year-old adult excels in vocabulary and general knowledge but solves the novel puzzle more slowly. This pattern of performance best illustrates the distinction between two types of intelligence proposed by Cattell.
What are Fluid and Crystallized Intelligence?
A young adult struggles to form deep, lasting romantic and friendship bonds, fearing isolation if they cannot connect. According to Erikson, this conflict represents the central psychosocial task of this stage of development.
What is 'intimacy vs Isolation'?
Two people hear the same sudden loud noise: one interprets it as a threat and feels fear, while the other thinks it’s a firework and feels excitement. This difference in emotional response illustrates which theory emphasizes that our evaluation of events determines our emotional experience?
What is Lazarus’ cognitive appraisal theory of emotion?
This is a core symptom that a patient diagnosed with major depressive disorder reports that activities they once enjoyed, like listening to music or socializing with friends, no longer bring them pleasure.
What is Anhedonia(Deficit in experiencing positive emotions)?