Disciplines of Psychology
Medical doctors with a M.D. degrees who prescribe medication to patients
What are psychiatrists?
Anxious-Ambivalent Attachment and Avoidant Attachment are also known as what
What is insecure attachment?
The behavioral characteristics that are fairly well established at birth, such as easy, difficult, and slow to warm up
What is temperament?
The most anterior (front) part of the brain that has many functions, the most important being motor muscle movement
What is frontal lobe?
Format style used in all psychology related articles, journals, etc.
What is American Psychological Association (APA)?
Branch of psychology concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of psychological problems and disorders
What is clinical psychology?
The tendency to focus on just one feature of a problem, neglecting other important aspects
What is centration?
Any factor (chemical/virus) that can cause a birth defect
What is teratogen?
Part of the brain that controls speech?
What is Borca's area?
The 4th type of attachment that came after Ainsworth's theory
What is disorganized attachment?
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What is psychology?
Involves changing existing mental structures to explain new experiences
What is accommodation?
The emotional bond between an infant and the primary caregiver
What is attachment?
A small "master" gland found in the brain inferior to (underneath) the hypothalamus
What is pituitary gland?
The main difference between a Psy.D and a Ph.D
What is research?
Area of psychology in which the psychologists focus on how human behavior is affected by the presence of other people
What is social psychology?
Cognitive framework or concept that organizes and interprets information
What is schema?
First stage of personality development in which infants learn a basic sense of trust dependent upon how their needs are met
What is trust vs. mistrust?
Lobe of the brain where the visual cortex is found?
What is occitpital lobe?
The "bible" of psychology
What is the DSM-V?
The science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
What is behaviorism?
Develops when a child recognizes that objects continue to exist even when they are no longer visible
What is object permanence?
In Piaget's theory, the ability to understand that simply changing the appearance of an object does not change the objects nature
What is conservation?
The 3 major divisions of the brain
What are hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain?
The class average for the first exam
What is 95-100%?