Biological Psychology
This part of the neuron receives incoming signals from other neurons.
Dendrites
This type of memory allows you to briefly hold information in mind, like a phone number.
Working memory
This is the most common mood disorder characterized by persistent sadness and loss of interest.
Major depressive disorder
This term refers to shared beliefs, values, and practices passed down through generations.
Culture
This brain structure is responsible for forming new memories and is shaped like a seahorse.
The hippocampus
This phenomenon occurs when people are less likely to help someone in need if others are present.
The bystander effect
This type of therapy focuses on identifying and changing distorted thoughts.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
This type of culture emphasizes personal goals and independence, common in the US and Western Europe.
Individualistic culture
Causal, frequency, and association claims
These chemical messengers travel across synapses and include serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.
Neurotransmitters
These mental shortcuts help us make quick judgments, but can also lead to errors.
Heuristics
Alcohol
This term describes the unfair and prejudicial treatment of people based on their cultural, ethnic, or social group membership.
Discrimination
These are three common types of literature reviews.
Review articles, introductory literature review, and student literature review
This system, sometimes called the 'fight or flight' system, activates the body during stress.
The sympathetic nervous system
This tendency to attribute someone's behavior to their personality rather than the situation.
The fundamental attribution error
This manual is used by clinicians to diagnose mental disorders.
The DSM-5
This concept explains how overlapping identities, like race, gender, and class, shape someone's experiences.
Intersectionality
In academic writing, this is the act of combining ideas and findings from multiple sources to show how they relate and to create a new, unified understanding.
Synthesis
This lobe of the brain is primarily responsible for reasoning, planning, and voluntary movement.
Frontal lobe
This bias occurs when people overestimate how much others notice or pay attention to their appearance or behavior.
This disorder is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts and repetitive behaviors.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
This term refers to the ways in which societal structures and institutions create unequal opportunities or outcomes for different groups.
Systemic inequality
The three criteria that are needed to establish a causal relationship.