Learning, thinking, and memory
Approximately at 12 months old this important motor skill step takes place
What is the age when a young child begins to walk?
A therapy method that focuses on changing thoughts.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
This behaviorist mainly worked with rats and pigeons.
Who is B.F. Skinner
An example of this is a child who cries when dropped off at daycare but happily reunites with his parents later
What is secure attachment?
The type of schizophrenia characterized by immobility
What is catatonic schizophrenia?
The lobe that processes auditory input
A type of dementia
What is Alzheimer's?
The phenomenon of redirecting one's emotions about a person onto the therapist in psychoanalytic therapy
What is transference?
The region in the brain involved in the comprehension of speech
What is Wernicke's area?
The average distance to the mean in a data set
What is standard deviation?
A nowadays prevalent tendency among individuals to mix both male and female features
What is androgyny?
Internal locus of control is an important goal in this therapy form.
What is humanistic therapy?
The ability of neurons to form new pathways, for example after brain trauma.
What is neuroplasticity?
One of the first methods of studying personality by analyzing the bumps on the skull
What is phrenology?
It resulted in a deeper understanding of modeling aggressive behavior
What is Albert Bandura's Bobo doll study?
Distractability, Irresponsibility, Grandiosity, Flight of ideas, Activity increase, Sleep decrease, Talkativeness
What are the characteristics of a person with bipolar disorder during his manic periods?
The area of the brain that was injured on Phineas Gage.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
In research it leads to a better representation of the general population.
What is a large/representative sample?