Theories & Research
B.F. Skinner and Ivan Pavlov are affiliated with this early school of thought.
What is Behaviorism?
This lobe is involved in a person's ability to plan, initiate, and carry out voluntary movements and actions.
What is Frontal Lobe?
This is the term for the bodily cycle or rhythm that is roughly 24 hours long.
What is the Circadian Rhythm?
The word hypnosis is derived from this Greek word meaning sleep.
What is Hypnos?
This is 1 of the 4 Cs associated with addiction.
What is:
Craving
Loss of Control
Compulsion
Consequences
This school of thought was heavily influenced by Charles Darwin's theories of survival of the fittest.
What is Functionalism?
In general, neural messages are received by this part of the neuron.
What are the dendrites?
This is the phase of sleep in which most dreams occur.
What is REM?
This is the term for a suggestion made during hypnosis asking a person to carry out a specific instruction following the hypnotic session
What is Posthypnotic Suggestion?
This type of medication is commonly prescribed to individuals with an Alcohol Use Disoder.
What is Antabuse?
This term refers to a procedure during experimental research that assures ALL participants have an equal chance of being assigned to any of the experimental conditions.
What is Random Assignment?
This is the process where neurotransmitter molecules are reabsorbed by the presynaptic neuron.
What is Reuptake?
Sleep clears this product from the brain.
What is Metabolic Waste?
The main goal of meditation is to control or train this.
What is Attention?
This category of addictive drugs mimics the properties of a natural brain substance called endorphins.
What are Opiates?
Researchers at the United Family Therapy Center are conducting a study to determine how quickly different forms of psychotherapy reduce symptoms of anxiety. This is the DEPENDENT variable in the study.
What is change in the symptoms of anxiety?
This is the part of the peripheral nervous system that is responsible for "fight or flight" responses.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
Freud believed that dreams were related to instinctual urges that people found to be BLANK when they were awake.
Unacceptable
This percentage of adults are considered difficult or impossible to hypnotize.
What is 10%?
What are Psychedelics?
This is one of the four types of descriptive research explored in the text.
What is -
Case studies
Naturalistic observation
Surveys
Correlational studies
(ANY OF THESE ARE CORRECT!)
This is the part of the limbic system that is involved in emotional responses and memories with a strong emotional component.
What is the Amygdala?
This model of dreaming asserts that dreams reflect our interests, personality and individual worries.
What is Neurocognitive?
Meditation has been found to improve working memory with this population.
What is US Military Personnel?
Depressants have this impact on the Central Nervous System.
What is depress/inhibit CNS activity?