Learning
Memory
Personality
Psyc Disorders
Therapy
100
A relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience.
What is learning?
100
The persistence of learning over time though the storage and retrieval of information.
What is memory?
100
One of Freud's three components of personality. The only one that is present at birth and that contains the basic drive to survive, reproduce and act aggressively.
What is the id?
100
Thoughts and behaviors that are: -deviant -dysfunctional -distressful
What are psychological disorders?
100
A type of therapy that assumes disorders arise because of conflicts early in life. This therapy works by bringing repressed feelings into conscious awareness so patients can deal with them.
What is psychoanalysis?
200
The specific type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli and thus anticipate events
What is classical conditioning?
200
Storing the small amount of information that we are currently processing / working on. Example: dialing a phone number.
What is working memory?
200
The principle followed by the ego which says that all behavior must take into account the state of the external world in addition to the needs and urges arising within.
What is the reality principle?
200
"Da Book" used to classify all psychological disorders, including statistics, prognosis, and research concerning treatment approaches.
What is the DSM-V
200
When a patient transfers positive or negative emotions to their analyst that are linked to other relationships.
What is transference?
300
Occurs when a NS is paired with an existing CS, eventually causing the same CR
What is higher order conditioning?
300
This psychologist studied his own learning of nonsense syllables and discovered that the amount remembered depends critically on the amount of time spent learning.
Who is Ebbinghaus?
300
When a conflict is not well resolved and pleasure seeking energies become permanently focused on one of the previous stages of psycho-sexual development.
What is fixation?
300
Anxiety without having to be in contact with any specific object or situation.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
300
A non directive therapy that creates a non threatening atmosphere of acceptance and enables patients to get in touch with their natural ability to heal themselves.
What is client centered therapy?
400
The process by which reinforcers guide behavior to closer and closer approximations of the desire behavior
What is shaping?
400
Processing a word by its meaning, as opposed to its appearance or sound
What is deep processing?
400
Guarding against the release of an unacceptable impulse by emphasizing the opposite of that impulse.
What is reaction formation?
400
Persistent and repetitive thoughts about things. For instance, contamination.
What are obsessions?
400
The most widely used type of exposure therapy. Gets people to repeatedly relax while facing the stimulus that they are afraid of.
What is systematic desensitization therapy?
500
When a stimulus is REMOVED after a response and causes an increase in the rate of responding (e.g. car seatbelt alarm removed).
What is negative reinforcement?
500
When something you learned in the past interferes with the recall of something you learned more recently.
What is proactive interference?
500
Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism
What are the big five factors of personality?
500
The way people explain things that happen to them.
What is explanatory style?
500
Using classical conditioning to link aversive stimuli with behaviors that need to be eliminated.
What is aversive conditioning?