Clinical Psychology
a disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure
What is major depressive disorder?
A generalized belief about a group of people
What is a stereotype?
The developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
What is a fetus?
the type of learning based on rewards and punishments
What is operant conditioning?
What’s the term for attributing undesirable traits to others?
projection
A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression
What is Schizophrenia?
The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
An optimal period early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development
What is a critical period?
what did John Watson do in the “Little Albert” experiment to demonstrate classical conditioning in humans?
What is teach albert to be afraid of rats by pairing them with a loud, startling noise
a sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks
What is narcolepsy?
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance
What is unconditional positive regard?
the state, theorized by Leon Festinger, in which a person hold two contradictory beliefs which cause great discomfort. The resolution of this can explain otherwise confusing behaviors
What is cognitive dissonance
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
What is a schema?
Which psychologist dealt with the dogs and salivation experiement?
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
The part of the brain associated with fear
What is the amygdala?
An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
What is obedience to authority
This developmental psychologist spent his life searching for the answer to how our mind grows
Who is Jean Piaget?
Which type of conditioning (also called instrumental conditioning) involves externally reinforcing or punishing a behavior?
operant conditioning
Who developed psychosocial development stages?
Erik Erikson
The study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change
What is epigenetics?
The hierarchy of needs were proposed by this psychologist.
abraham maslow
List all of Erikson's Psychosocial stages of development.
Trust vs Mistrust, Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt, Initiative vs Guilt, Industry vs Inferiority, Identity vs Role Confusion, Intimacy vs Isolation, Generativity vs Stagnation, Ego Integrity vs Despair
What is the term for the system responsible for controlling attention, manipulating information, and temporarily storing information needed for complex cognitive tasks?
What is working memory?
Commonly used to treat depression, the class of drugs known as SSRIs gets its name because they increase levels of what "feel-good chemical" in the brain?
serotonin