Disorders
A disturbance marked by panic attacks that have no obvious connection with events in the person's present experience. Unlike generalized anxiety disorder, the victim is usually free of anxiety between panic attacks.
Panic disorder
Developed psychoanalysis; considered to be "father of modern psychiatry"
Sigmund Freud
Too little of this can lead to Parkinson's disease and too much of this can lead to schizophrenia.
Dopamine
The idea that cells in the visual system process colors in complementary pairs, such as red or green or as yellow or blue. It explains color sensation from the bipolar cells onward in the visual system.
Opponent-process theory
Tests that can be scored easily by machine, such as multiple-choice tests and selected-response tests.
Objective Tests
A mental abnormality involving swings of mood form mania to depression.
Bipolar disorder
Created Functionalist school of thought; early American psychology teacher/philosopher
William James
Too little of this leads to depression
Serotonin
A trait perspective suggesting that personality is composed of five fundamental personality dimensions: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Five-factor theory
The nerve impulse caused by a change in the electrical charge across the cell membrane of the axon.
Action Potential
A psychotic disorder involving distortions in thoughts, perceptions, and/or emotions.
Schizophrenia
Interested in the universality of facial expressions: facial expressions carry same meaning regardless of culture, context, or language. Use of micro expressions to detect lying.
Paul Ekman
Pleasurable sensations/control of pain lowered levels resulting from opiate addiction
Endorphins
The idea that colors are sensed by three different types of cones sensitive to light in the red, blue, and green wavelength. It explains the earliest stage of color sensation.
Trichromatic theory
The story line of a dream, taken at face value without interpretation.
Manifest content
A condition in which an individual displays multiple identities, or personalities; formerly called "multiple personality disorder."
Dissociative identity disorder
Neo-Freudian; introduced concept of "inferiority complex" and stressed the importance of birth order
Alfred Adler
Enables muscle action (movement) and is used by different neurons.
Acetylcholine
The theory which states that dreams begin with random electrical activation coming from the brain stem.
Activation-synthesis theory
The removal of an unpleasant or aversive stimulus, contingent on a particular behavior.
Negative reinforcement
An abnormality involving the sensation that mind and body have separated, as in an "out-of-body" experience.
Depersonalization disorder
founder of "Social Development Theory" (note: not "social learning theory" OR "psychosocial" development...); emphasizes importace of More Knowledge Others (MKO) and the Zone of Proximal Development
Lev Vygotsky
Too little of this can lead to depressed moods, anxiety, or high blood pressure.
Norepinphrine
The proposal that an emotion-provoking stimulus produces a physical response that, in turn, produces an emotion
James-Lange Theory
A personality descriptor indicating the "outgoing" nature of some individuals.
Extraversion