Unit 1
Psychologist who believed unconscious conflicts cause mental illness
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Fear & emotional center of the brain
What is the amygdala?
People are less likely to help someone in an emergency if there is a large crowd.
What is the bystander effect?
Photoreceptor cells that allow the eye to see in color
What are cones?
Scientist that trained dogs to drool when they heard a bell ring.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Motivation that comes from within
What is intrinsic motivation?
Parents with few rules or limitations.
What are permissive parents?
A long-term & in-depth study of one person or small group
What is a case study?
Division of the nervous system that prepares the body for an emergency
Drug users need to take increasing amounts to feel the same effects.
What is tolerance?
Body sense that helps us maintain our balance.
What is the vestibular sense?
A person or animal learns to associate 2 stimuli and anticipate events
What is classical conditioning?
Personality tests are open-ended and require interpretation like Rorschach.
What is projective?
Physical problems & cognitive disability that results from drinking during pregnancy
What is fetal alcohol syndrome?
Participants notice a change in symptoms even though they did not receive a real medicine
What is the placebo effect?
What is sleep apnea?
We tend to think people notice our faults or mistakes more than they do:
What is the spotlight effect?
The brain fills in missing information to create a complete picture (Gestalt)
What is closure?
We primarily learn through consequences
What is operant conditioning?
Social norms about how to express emotion in public
What are display rules?
Parents who are strict and expect 100% obediance
What are authoritarian?
Psychologist who conducted the Baby Albert case study
Who is John Watson?
Lobe of the brain that controls personality, judgement, and emotional regulation
What is the frontal lobe?
Feelings of reward & motor control - neurotransmitter is low in Parkinson's
What is dopamine?
Things that are smaller are perceived as further away (________ constancy)
What is size?
What is generalization?
An outright refusal to accept a pain truth or reality
What is denial?
Selectively preventing or encouraging reproduction to weed out traits that the culture does not value.
What is eugenics?
Psychology should be a science that focuses on observable actions
What is behavioral psychology?
Part of the brain that stores memories of events
What is the hippocampus?
Electric shock study that showed most ppl will harm someone if told to by an authority figure
What is the Milgram study?
Tendency to assume things are more likely to happen when we have a vivid example
What is an availability heuristic?
Adding something unwanted to stop an undesirable behavior
What is positive punishment?
Diverting negative emotions onto a less threatening target.
What is displacement?
Erik Erikson's 5th stage of development when teens discover who they are.
What is identity vs. role confusion?