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Biopsychology
Development
Sensation & Perception (Vision)
Learning
Abnormal (Disorders)
100
Your nervous system is divided into two main components, the central nervous system and this.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
100
This is a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is a schema?
100
This is the process by which out brain organizes and interprets sensory information, transforming it into meaningful objects and events.
What is perception?
100
This person is associated with Classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
This is the most common tool for describing and diagnosing disorders.
What is the DSM V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual version 5)
200
This part of the brain which is a part of the endocrine system is known as the "master" gland.
What is the pituitary gland?
200
This is Piaget's first stage of cognitive develo.pment
What is sensorimotor?
200
This type of retinal receptors in the eye are responsible for our color perception.
What are cones?
200
The little Albert experiment was conducted by which psychologist(s)?
Who are (John) Watson, and (Rosalie) Rayner?
200
This is a type of anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fea and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
300
This fatty tissue sometimes covers the axon of a neuron and assists in speeding neural impulses.
What is the myelin (sheath)?
300
This psychologist worked with wire and mesh monkeys to study attachment.
Who is (Harry) Harlow?
300
The point where the optic nerve leave the eye is known as this.
What is the blind spot?
300
In this type of learning a behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer, or diminished if followed by a punisher (hint Skinner)
What is operant (respondant / instrumental / Skinnerian) conditioning?
300
This is a disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions.
What is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)?
400
The motor cortex is located at the back of which lobe of the brain?
What is the frontal lobe?
400
This type of parenting style is identified by parents consistently giving into their children's desires, with few demands and little punishment.
What is permissive (style)?
400
This theory of color vision states that there are three different color receptors.
What is te Yound-Helmholtz theory (aka tri chromatic or three color theory)
400
This is the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior. (hint Bandura)
What is modeling?
400
This is a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state, often seen in bipolar disorder.
What is mania?
500
This is the brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.
What is (neural) plasticity?
500
Lawrence Kohlberg proposed that they are this many basic levels of moral thinking.
What is three (preconventional, conventional, post conventional morality)?
500
This is the reduced sensitivity in response to constant stimulus.
What is sensory adaptation?
500
This is a mental image of the layout of ones environment. (hint Tolman)
What is a cognitive map?
500
These are false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, tat may accompany schizophrenia.
What are delusions?