Biopsychology
Makes up 50% of the cells in the brain and stores/processes information using an electrical code.
The process of collecting sensory information from the world with the senses.
What is Sensation?
A pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are deviant, disordered, dysfunctional, and/or dangerous
What is Psychological Disorder?
Includes Psychosurgery, Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy
What are Modern Treatments?
Subfield of psychology that focuses on how the social environment influences the behavior of the individual
What is Social Psychology?
A structure of the neuron which contains machinery to keep neurons alive and functioning.
What is Soma? (cell body)
Transforms light energy received from the outside world into an electrical signal that is passed to the brain.
What is Retina?
An approach to psychology that considers complex effects social cultural factors on individual behavior.
What is Sociocultural Model?
Procedures performed on the brain in order to alleviate severe symptoms of mental illness that are not responsive to less invasive treatments.
What are Psychosurgeries?
Sayings such as “Boys are messy”, “Women are bad drivers”, and “Tall people play basketball.”
What are Stereotypes?
The portion of the autonomic nervous system that control the body's organ activity in response to threats.
- fight
- flight
-freeze
What is Sympathetic Nervous System?
What is Closure?
The standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals
What is DSM-5?
Medications which balance out extreme moods by acting on neurotransmitters that influence the mood or behavior?
What are Mood Stabilizers?
The tendency for the likelihood of receiving help to decrease as the number of people who witness the emergency increases is known as:
What is Bystander Effect?
The brain structure that contributes to movements requiring balance, coordination, and precise timing.
What is the Cerebellum?
The idea that color vision is based on two pairs of opponents:
- red vs. green
- blue vs. yellow
What is Color Opponency?
Their study made the realization that when someone is diagnosed as mentally ill, we often interpret most of their behavior as part of the disorder.
Who is David Rosenhan?
A type of therapy which helps clients to change potentially self-destructive behavior through addressing negative thought patterns that fuel the behavior.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapies?
Made up of three components: Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive
What are Attitudes?
Part of the cortex that allows us to recognize visual objects, such as faces.
What is Temporal Lobe?
What is Perception?
A. Odd or eccentric.
B. Dramatic or erratic.
C. Anxious or fearful.
What are Clusters?
Includes the Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and Light Exposure Therapy.
What are Alternative Therapies?
Can change your behavior and attitude to decrease:
What is Cognitive Dissonance?