Long extension of the neuron that carries an action potential.
What is the axon?
100
The process of getting information stored into memory.
What is encoding?
100
According to Freud, the third psychosexual stage involves this conflict for boys, centered on the idea of castration anxiety and the incest taboo.
What is the Oedipus conflict?
100
Disorder characterized by nearly constant worry.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
100
Branch of psychology that studies human growth and development.
What is developmental psychology?
200
Lobe of the cerebral cortex that contains the sensory cortex.
What is the parietal lobe?
200
The process of getting information out of memory storage.
What is retrieval?
200
The unconscious part of the personality that functions on the pleasure principle.
What is the id?
200
Chronic feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness, and sadness lasting over two weeks.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
200
Type of psychologist that may work for a corporation to consult on hiring and the working environment to make the company more productive.
What is an Industrial/Organizational psychologist?
300
Hemisphere associated with emotions and spatial abilities.
What is the right hemisphere?
300
When old information interferes with the learning of new information.
What is proactive interference?
300
According to Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, what do we call the need to reach your potential?
What is self-actualization?
300
Name of the therapy style developed by Sigmund Freud.
What is psychoanalysis?
300
This psychologist studied depression and cognitive therapy, and developed a list of cognitive distortions that can lead to psychological disorders/distress.
Who is Beck?
400
Part of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body function and calms us down after becoming excited or afraid.
What is the parasympathetic?
400
The tendency to remember the first and last things on a list better than the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
400
Bandura's phrase for the idea that we influence our environments, and our environments influence us.
What is reciprocal determinism?
400
The father of American psychology.
Who is William James?
500
Parkinson's patients have lower than normal amounts of this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
500
Maintains that personal memory is a representation or reconstruction of the past, not a verbatim copy.
What is the constructionist theory?
500
The perception that chance, a higher power, or another outside force beyond your control determines your fate.
What is external locus of control?
500
Disorder in which the client complains of physical symptoms that cannot be explained medically, but are instead manifestations of psychological distress.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
500
The city in which the first psychology laboratory was established.