Biology and Bases of Behavior
This part of the brain is responsible for higher-level thinking and decision making
What is the prefrontal cortex?
He proposed the idea that short-term memory holds around seven chunks, plus or minus two
Who is George Miller?
This type of conditioning involves learning through associations between stimuli
What is classical conditioning?
This error happens when we overestimate personality and underestimate the situation when judging others
What is a fundamental attribution error?
This mood disorder includes symptoms of persistent sadness and loss of interest
What is major depressive disorder?
This neurotransmitter is most associated with mood regulation and is linked to depression
What is serotonin?
This process refers to keeping information in memory over time
What is storage?
He developed an eight-stage theory of psychosocial development
Who is Erik Erikson?
He conducted the infamous obedience study involving administrating shocks to learners
Who is Stanley Milgram?
These medications are commonly used to manage symptoms of schizophrenia
What are antipsychotics?
He developed the theory of phrenology, which incorrectly linked brain areas with personality traits
Who is Franz Gall?
Retroactive and proactive are two types of this memory-blocking phenomenon
What is interference?
This type of learning occurs by watching and imitating others
What is observational learning?
These five personality traits are often remembered using the acronym OCEAN
What is openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism?
He developed client-centered therapy focused on unconditioned positive regard
Who is Carl Rogers?
This system activates the "fight or flight" response in the body
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
He suggested that intelligence is not a single factor but comes in multiple forms like musical, spatial and interpersonal
Who is Howard Gardener?
He is known for his ideas regarding operant conditioning
Who is B.F. Skinner?
He created a pyramid-shaped hierarchy of people's needs
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This anxiety disorder involves sudden, intense episodes of fear and physical discomfort
What is panic disorder?
These bundle of nerve fibers connect the left and right hemispheres and allows communication between them
What is the corpus callosum?
This is a mental shortcut that helps us make decisions and solve problems quickly, often relying on limited information
What are heuristics?
His theory of cognitive development includes sensorimotor and preoperational stages
Who is Jean Piaget?
Thi theory by Leon Festinger explains discomfort from holding conflicting beliefs
What is cognitive dissonance?
This disorder is characterized by alternating periods of depression and mania
What is bipolar disorder?