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Definition of Psychology
What is the science of behaviors and mental processes?
The "Fight or Flight" response is associated with this branch of the nervous system.
Sympathetic Nervous System
Identify the 4 Brain Lobes
Parietal, Occipital, Temporal, Frontal
List the order of prenatal development
zygote, embryo, fetus
Disorder in which a patient is experiencing hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, etc
What are the three types of stressors and examples of them?
Daily Hassles, Catastrophes, Life Transitions
The variable that is manipulated by a researcher to investigate whether it consequently brings change in another variable
A teacher gives her daughter a sticker for doing homework. What is this an example of?
Positive Reinforcement
Drug that tends to calm central nervous system activity and slow body functions
What are depressants?
Obsessive - Compulsive Disorder
The variable that is manipulated by a researcher to investigate whether it consequently brings change in another variable.
What is independent variable?
What is the difference between Gender Role and Gender Identity? Examples?
Gender role is set of expectations (norms) about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave.
Gender identity is our personal sense of being male, female, or some combination of the two.
Means there is a relationship between 2 or more variables, but this relationship does not necessarily imply cause and effect
Correlation
A teacher gives her daughter a sticker for doing homework. What is this an example of?
Positive Reinforcement
What neurotransmitter is widely associated with depression?
Process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
Sensation
Define Sensation and Perception in your own words
Sensation - process by which our sensory receptors receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
Perception - Process by which our brain organizes and interprets sensory information, enabling us to recognize objects and events as meaningful
What is Transduction?
Conversion of one form of energy into another
In sensation, the transforming of stimulus energies, such as sights, sounds, and smells, into neural impulses our brain can interpret
Piaget's 4 stages of development.
What is sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
What is a type of biomedical therapy that includes surgically implanting a "pacemaker" for the brain? What does it aim to do?
Deep Brain Stimulation aims to decrease symptoms of depression.
Brain has adapted to the substance and that they need larger doses to feel the effects of the substance
Tolerance
What are the Big 5 personality factors?
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
The lowest level of Maslow's hierarchy
basic, physiological needs
Dendrites, Axon, Myelin sheath, Terminal Buttons, Cell Body,
What is unconditional positive regard and who was the therapist who believed in this? What is his form of therapy known as?