People
Theories
Types of Psychotherapies
Neurotransmitters
Misc. Vocabulary
100
This person believed in one general intelligence.
Who is Charles Spearman.
100
This is the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
What is the Drive Reduction Theory.
100
This psychotherapy aims to heal relationships by improving communication and exploring roles.
What is Group/ Family Therapy.
100
This neurotransmitter enables muscle action, learning, and memory. It is also associated with Alzheimer's disease.
What is Acetylcholine (ACh).
100
This is the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
What is Validity.
200
This person developed client-centered therapy and active listening.
Who is Carl Rogers.
200
This theory links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea's membrane is stimulated.
What is the Place Theory.
200
This type of psychotherapy aims to reduce anxiety through self insight by using analysis and interpretation.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy.
200
This neurotransmitter affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal.
What is Serotonin.
200
This is an accepting, caring, nonjudgmental attitude believed to help clients develop self acceptance.
What is Unconditional Positive Regard.
300
She earned her PhD. at Harvard but was denied the degree.
Who is Mary Calkins.
300
This theory proposes that our abilities are classified into eight independent intelligence's.
What is Gardner's Multiple Intelligence's.
300
This psychotherapy practices active listening and unconditional positive regard.
What is Client- Centered Therapy.
300
This neurotransmitter influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion.
What is Dopamine.
300
This is the memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare.
What is Explicit Memory.
400
This person proposed that children progress through four stages of cognitive development.
Who is Piaget.
400
This theory proposes that there are three receptors in the retina that are responsible for the perceptions of color; one is sensitive to green, another to blue, and another to red.
What is the Young- Helmholtz Theory of Color Vision.
400
This type of psychotherapy would best help someone with negative, self defeating thoughts.
What is Cognitive Therapy.
400
An under supply of this neurotransmitter can depress mood.
What is Norepinephrine.
400
These psychological disorders are characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.
What are Personality Disorders.
500
These people demonstrated conditioned responses with Little Albert.
Who is John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner.
500
This theory states that an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion.
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory.
500
This psychotherapy uses counterconditioning, exposure, and desensitization.
What is Behavior Therapy.
500
An oversupply of this neurotransmitter can produce migraines or seizures.
What is Glutamate.
500
This is the desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid punishment.
What is Extrinsic Motivation.