Unit 1: Biological Basis for Psychology
The part of the autonomic nervous system that prepares the body for stressful or emergency situations
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System
The mental capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information.
What is Memory?
The reflex of a baby holding on tight to something put in their hands.
What is the grasping reflex?
The tendency to over emphasize dispositional factors and under estimate situational factors in explaining a behavior.
What is Fundamental Attribution Theory?
Mental health condition that primarily affect's an individuals emotional state.
What are mood disorders?
Part of the nervous system consisting of the Brain and Spinal Cord
What is the Central Nervous System?
A cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used.
What is Functional Fixedness?
A theory that suggests behavior is learned through observation and imitation of others.
What is Social Learning Theory?
The tendency to attribute positive outcomes to ones' self and negative outcomes to external factors.
What is Self-Serving Bias?
Billy has lost feeling and movement of his hand.
What is conversion disorder?
The basic building blocks of the nervous system that transmits information through electrical and chemical signals.
What is a neuron?
A cognitive framework that helps organize and interpret information.
What is Schema?
A theory that describes how children develop logical thinking through stages.
What is Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development?
The degree to which a person believes they can control events effecting them, categorized as internal or external.
Locus of Control.
A patient has a fear of cats. Dr. Holmes, a behavioral psychologist, decides this type of therapy would be best.
What is desensitization?
A neural impulse that travels down the axon triggered by a change in electrical charge.
What is Action Potential?
A mental shortcut that helps people solve problems and make judgements quickly.
What is Heuristics?
A theory emphasizing the stages of individuals developing a sense of right and wrong.
What is Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development?
A belief or expectation that influences a person's behavior in a way that causes the belief to come true.
What is Self-fulfilling Prophecy?
A type of disorder that is characterized by a behavior pattern, that's different from the norm, that affects your life.
What are Personality Disorders?
The part of the neuron responsible for insultation and speed of the neural impulse.
What is a myelin sheath?
The tendency to recall memories that are consistent with one's current mood.
What is Mood Dependent Memory?
The smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.
What are Phonemes?
Influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval and avoid disapproval.
What is Normative Social Influence?
Amy is constantly angry at her teachers, her parents, and coach. She yells at them over the smallest things. She also feels strong resentment towards authority figures.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?