Biology/Memory
The division of the autonomic nervous system that engages the body to move into an arousal state.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
The Big Five Factors of trait perspective.
What is conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extraversion?
The standard for all psychological disorder criteria.
What is deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional?
Positive stress.
What is eustress?
He established the first psychological experiment in a lab, and often considered the father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The building block of the nervous system.
What is the neuron?
The pleasure principle of the mind according to Freud.
What is the id?
The use of medications and other medical procedures to treat psychological disorders.
What is biomedical therapy?
At this cognitive stage infants do not have the ability of object permanence.
What is sensorimotor stage?
Founder of behaviorist psychology.
Who is John B Watson?
The part of the brain that is primarily responsible with memory?
What is the hippocampus?
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
What is learned helplessness?
Bizarre thinking and distorted beliefs.
What are delusions?
What is integrity vs despair?
The research study that studies one individual in great depth (use of observations, interviews, etc.)
What is a case study?
The inability to remember information previously stored in memory.
What is retrograde amnesia?
The defense mechanism that shifts impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person?
What is displacement?
A client's unwillingness to discuss issues raised during free association.
What is resistance?
The components of the General Adaption Syndrome (GAS).
What is alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion?
The only research method that can claim "cause and effect."
What is the experimental method?
The system that helps regulate our emotions.
What is the limbic system?
The disorder that experiences symptoms of trauma immediately following and is experienced for four weeks or less.
What is acute stress disorder?
The perception that we are relatively worse off than those we compare ourselves with.
What is the relative deprivation principle?
The research method that instead of following groups over time, they select similar sample of different ages and compare behaviors at these different age groups.
What is the cross-sectional method?