Biology of Psychology
A part of the brain that controls blood pressure, heart rate, and bleeding.
What is the medulla?
Freudren's unconscious urges and desires. Selfish needs and wanting to satisfy needs.
What is id?
a theory of motivation that attempts to reduce states of stress and tension, and keep the body in balance.
Client centered therapy, a humanistic therapy based on the beliefs that an individual has an unlimited capacity for psychological growth and will continue to grow unless barriers are placed in the way, was developed by this psychologist.
Who is Carl Rogers?
A type of therapy which uses medication.
What is drug therapy?
A technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer generated images of soft tissues.
What is a MRI?
A method of exploring the unconscious when the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind.
What is free association?
An unlearned motivation to all living things that is vital for survival.
What is a Primary Drive?
This is a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders; the fifth version is currently used.
What is DSM-V?
A type of medication that helps people out of depression.
What is an antidepressant drug?
Serves as a relay station for sensory stimulation.
What is the thamalus?
The part of personality that internalizes needs and provides standards for a judgement.
What is a superego?
Occurs when your body naturally returns to a "preprogrammed" weight.
What is a set point?
These are the three requirements for requirements for psychological disorders.
What is deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional?
A treatment of mental/emotional problems using psychology?
What is psychotherapy?
Patients who have this cannot orally report information only presented to the right hemisphere of the brain since the spoken language centers of the brain are usually located in the left hemisphere?
What are split-brain patients?
According to Freud, children incorporate their parents' values into their developing superego.
What is identification?
Maslow's pyramid of primitive motives, a humanistic approach where higher motives are only done after basic needs are fulfilled.
What is Maslow's Hierachy of Needs?
Lithium Carbonate is a new treatment method for this mood disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
A type of therapy that teaches people a new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting.
this part of your autonomic nervous system arouse the body and mobilizes its energy in stressful situations
what is the sympathetic nervous system?
According to Freud, it is a boy's sexual desires towards his mother, and jealousy towards his father.
What is Oedipus Complex?
A type of motivation that is done to please and satisfy your wants and needs. It is mental.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
Hitler experiences this disorder when he went blind after losing WWII?
What is Conversion Disorder?
A type of psychotherapy used to get rid of unwanted behaviors by encouraging a desired behavior.
What is psychotherapy?