Diagnoses
This mental disorder is associated with difficulty focusing, impulsive behavior, and hyperactivity.
What is ADD/ADHD?
This psychologist emphasized the role of the unconscious and coined the term "Oedipus Complex."
Who was Sigmund Freud?
This part of the brain connects to the spinal cord and is responsible for basic functions like breathing and heartbeat.
What is the brainstem?
Exercise, deep breathing, and talking with family or friends are healthy examples of this.
What are coping strategies?
These are things in your life that cause you stress.
What are stressors?
This disorder is characterized by memory loss.
What is amnesia?
This psychologist studied behavior using dogs and bells.
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
This part of the brain is responsible for planning, reasoning, and impulse control.
What is the frontal lobe?
Reflecting on things in your life you are thankful for is an example of this kind of coping strategy.
What is expressing gratitude?
These are people, places, activities, or thoughts that can bring back mental health issues.
What are triggers?
The acronym PTSD stands for this.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
The Hierarchy of Needs, which says that people need their basic needs met like food and shelter before complex needs like social acceptance and self-fulfillment, was developed by this psychologist.
Who was Abraham Maslow?
This part of the brain is largely responsible for long-term memory, and gets its name from the Greek word for "seahorse."
What is the hippocampus?
Having this means you believe you can improve your abilities through effort.
What is a growth mindset?
Isolating from others, procrastination, and substance use are examples of this kind of behavior.
What are avoidance behaviors?
This disease is primarily in older adults and involves memory loss, confusion, and difficulty with daily tasks.
What is Alzheimer's?
This psychologist ran a famous experiment where participants thought they were administering electric shocks to another person, showing the influence that authority figures have over us.
Who was Stanley Milgram?
This neurotransmitter is associated with reward and learning.
What is dopamine?
This refers to a desire to do something because you enjoy it, not because of any external reason.
What is intrinsic motivation?
This kind of cognitive distortion makes you see only the worst possible outcome of a situation.
What is catastrophizing?
This eating disorder is characterized by eating little to no food to the point of severe malnutrition.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This psychologist ran an experiment using a "Bobo doll," showing how children imitate behavior modeled by adults.
Who was Albert Bandura?
This part of the brain is the emotional center of the brain, and is involved in the fight or flight reflex.
What is the amygdala?
This is personal strength that allows you to deal with stress and adversity.
What is resilience?
A person with this attachment style may appear emotionally distant, guarded and avoid intimacy.
What is Avoidant Attachment?