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Exam I
(Modules
1, 13-16, 32-33)
Exam II
(Modules 34-39)
Exam III
(Modules 40-48)
Final Exam
(Modules 49-54)
Miscellaneous
100
An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind. (Module 1, The Story of Psychology)
What is structuralism?
100
A completely involved focus state of consciousness with diminished awareness of self and time resulting in optimal engagement of ones skill. (Module 34, Motivation at Work)
What is flow?
100
Freud asked patients to say whatever came to their minds in order to tap the unconscious. (Module 40-41, Psychodynamic & Humanistic Theories)
What is free association?
100
Formerly called manic-depressive disorder, this disorder alternates between depression and mania. (Module 49, Mood Disorders)
What is bipolar disorder?
100
An area at the rear of the frontal lobes that controls voluntary movements.
What is the motor cortex?
200
The awareness that objects continue to exist even when they aren't perceived by you. (Module 14, Infancy and Childhood)
What is object permanence?
200
Emotional release. (Module 36, Experienced Emotion)
What is catharsis.
200
A child strives for superiority and power during growth. (Module 40-41, Psychodynamic & Humanistic Theories)
What is the inferiority complex?
200
Patients with schizophrenia may continually rub an arm, rock a chair, or remain motionless for hours. (Module 50, Schizophrenia)
What is catatonia?
200
The large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleep.
What are delta waves?
300
The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing. (Module 15, Adolescence)
What is puberty?
300
Our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience. (Module 36, Experience Emotion)
What is the adaptation-level phenomenon?
300
The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. (Module 42, Trait Theories, Social-Cognitive Theories & the Self)
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
300
A disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. (Module 51, Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders??)
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder or multiple personality disorder?
300
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is schema?
400
The theory that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce a state of tension/arousal in the body and return the body to a state of balance. (Module 32, Motivation/Hunger)
What is the Drive-Reduction Theory?
400
Hans Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion. (Module 38, Stress and Health)
What is the general adaptation syndrome (GAS)?
400
Fritz Heider suggested that we have a tendency to give causal explanations for someone’s behavior, often by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition. (Module 43, Social Thinking)
What is the attribution theory?
400
A disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, using laxatives, fasting, or excessive exercise (compensatory behaviors). (Module 51, Dissociative, Personality, and Eating Disorders?)
What is bulimia nervosa?
400
The “little brain” at the rear of the brainstem; functions include processing sensory input and coordinating movement output and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
500
Portion of the brain that controls appetite. (Module 32, Motivation/Hunger)
What is the hypothalamus?
500
A system for electronically recording, amplifying, and feeding back information regarding a subtle physiological state, such as blood pressure or muscle tension. (Module 39, Promoting Health)
What is biofeedback?
500
Behavior going against accepted standards of behavior. (Module 47, Psychological Disorders?)
What is deviant behavior?
500
These types of therapists aim to increase self-awareness and self-acceptance. (Module 52?, The Psychological Therapies??)
What is humanistic therapists?
500
Bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain-wave activity
What are sleep spindles?