UNIT:1
Psychology is the study of?
What is Behavior and Mental processes in humans and animals?
The bodys communication network that consists of all nerve cells
What is the Nervous System?
Any relatively permanent change in behavior brought about by experience of practice
What is learning?
Branch of Psychology that studies unusal patterns of behavior, emotions, and thoughts
Study of how individuals think, feel, believe in a social context
What is Social Psychology?
Studies used to describe general or specific behaviors and attributes that are observed and measured
What is Descriptive research?
Areas of the cerebral cortex, location and primary function, each with a specialty
What are Lobes?
What is Classical Conditioning?
Excessive anxiety under certain circumstances and worry about practically anything
What is GAD?
The process which the presence of others enhance performance on easy task
What is Social Facilitation?
Nature or Nurture, all of the environmental variables that impact who we are?
What is Nurture?
The are __ number of lobes in the brain
What is 6?
Learning that has persisted over time and been stored and can be retrieved
What is Memory?
Mental disorders defined by observed eating habits
What are Eating and Feeding Disorders?
Forces that lead people to like each other, establish relationship, and is some cases fall in love
What is Interpersonal attraction?
The quote, "Correlation is not causation", means
What is Just because two things correlate does not mean they cause each other?
The recommended amount of time to nap is
How long is 90 minutes?
Process of taking individual pieces of information and grouping them into longer units
What is Chunking?
The father of psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Frued?
Made the theory that someone's behavior by crediting either internal characteristics
Who is Fritz Heider?
Large amount of date collected in reserach studies
What are Statistics?
Chemical substances that alter perceptions, moods, or behavior
What are Psychoactive Drugs?
Study of changes that occurs in people as they age
What is developmental psychology?
There are __ personality traits
How many is 5?
What is the acronym for the big five personality factors
What is OCEAN?