Psychology & Development
Examining the roles that unconscious thought patterns and childhood influences play in someone’s modern functioning.
What is psychoanalysis?
Melissa is very invested in developing a stronger relationship with her mother. Which level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is she tending to?
What is social needs?
Which types of cells are the two basic units of the nervous system?
What are neurons and glial cells?
Describe the difference between sensation and perception.
What is sensation is the detection of stimuli; perception is interpreting those stimuli?
Marcel is asleep and suddenly becomes aware that she is dreaming while she’s still asleep. She alters the surroundings of her dream.
What is lucid dreaming?
Which theorist is credited with proposing the psychosexual stages of development?
Who is Freud?
Explain the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.
What is intrinsic motivation comes from internal desire, extrinsic motivation comes from outside rewards?
Michael suffered a brain injury and has trouble understanding language but can speak fluently.
What is Wernicke’s area?
Last week, Diego dropped a five-dollar bill on his lawn... he doesn't notice it while searching for an earring.
What is inattentional blindness
The brain’s clock mechanism regulating sleep/wake cycles based on light and dark.
What is the suprachiasmatic nucleus?
Explain Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages of Development.
What is the eight stages of psychosocial development from infancy to late adulthood,
Explain the process of classical conditioning.
What is learning by associating a neutral stimulus with a meaningful stimulus?
Jessica sustained a head injury and has trouble recalling names, faces, and childhood.
What is the hippocampus?
The three parts of the brain involved in memory processing and their roles.
What are cerebellum (procedural memory), hippocampus (new memories), amygdala (emotional memories)?
The stage of sleep where dreams occur
What is REM sleep?
Describe who Margaret Floy Washburn is.
Who is the first woman to earn a PhD in psychology, studied animal behavior and motor development?
Carla sprays her cat to stop scratching the furniture.
What is negative punishment?
Psychology refers to the ___?
What is the scientific study of the mind and behavior?
The world is experienced through what we can perceive and how we move our bodies.
During Piaget’s sensorimotor stage
Awareness and control of dreams
What is lucid dreaming?
Victoria learns she has metastatic breast cancer and prays for healing and that she will become a good Christian. What stage of grief is she in?
What is bargaining?
Which concept is Abraham Maslow best known for?
What is the hierarchy of human needs?
Most knowledge about brain function comes from
studies examining behavior changes in people with TBI.
A study of infant attachment behaviors in response to separations and reunions with caregivers
the Strange Situation experiment
REM stands for
What is Rapid Eye Movement?