A mental condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
100
A branch of psychology that focuses on the study and alteration of people's behaviors, including their actions, emotions and thoughts.
What is Behavioral Psychology?
100
The part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates. Its function is to coordinate and regulate muscular activity.
What is Cerebellum?
100
Of or relating to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the active medication, treatment, etc.,
What is Double Blind Study?
100
The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.
What is Addiction?
200
Recurring fears or worries, such as about health or finances, and they often have a persistent sense that something bad is just about to happen.
What is Anxiety Disorder?
200
The study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
200
The outer layer of the cerebrum (the cerebral cortex ), composed of folded gray matter and playing an important role in consciousness.
What is Cerebral Cortex?
200
A process or record of research in which detailed consideration is given to the development of a particular person, group, or situation over a period of time.
What is Case Study?
200
An emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
300
People with this disorder suffer either with poor attention and distractibility or both.
What is Attention Deficit Disorder?
300
The scientific study of human behavior in the workplace and applies psychological theories and principles to organizations.
What is Industrial-Organizational?
300
Each of the paired lobes of the brain lying immediately behind the forehead, including areas concerned with behavior, learning, personality, and voluntary movement.
What is Frontal lobe?
300
A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.
What is Experiment?
300
The difference between where you are and where you want to be.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
400
Characterized by both manic and depressive modes.
What is Bipolar?
400
The branch of psychology that deals with social interactions, including their origins and their effects on the individual.
What is Social Psychology?
400
A chemical substance that is released at the end of a nerve fiber by the arrival of a nerve impulse and, by diffusing across the synapse or junction, causes the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fiber, a muscle fiber, or some other structure.
What is a neurotransmitter?
400
A harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect.
What is Placebo?
400
A comprehensive classification of officially recognized psychiatric disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association , for use by mental health professionals to ensure uniformity of diagnosis.
What is DSM-IV?
500
It is marked by a depressed mood most of the day, particularly in the morning, and a loss of interest in normal activities and relationships.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
500
The branch of psychology concerned with the assessment and treatment of mental illness and disability.
What is Clinical Psychology?
500
A region of the forebrain below the thalamus that coordinates both the autonomic nervous system and the activity of the pituitary, controlling body temperature, thirst, hunger, and other homeostatic systems, and involved in sleep and emotional activity.
What is Hypothalmus?
500
A subset of a statistical population in which each member of the subset has an equal probability of being chosen.
What is Random Sample?
500
The state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones).