Emotions & Stress
Common positive ones include: joy, love, elation, tenderness, surprise, and wonder.
What is an emotion?
Stanley Milgram's infamous study using fake shocks researched this concept.
What is obedience?
Refers to the propensity to overestimate internal (personal) influences and to underestimate external (situational) influences when judging the behavior of others.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
It's what CBT stands for.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
This psychosurgery that removed part of the brain was irreversible and did not offer a cure. The side effects were along the lines of returning the person to a permanent childish or apathetic mind.
What is a lobotomy?
A word for positive stress.
What is eustress?
Agreeing to something small will make you more likely to agree to something larger later on.
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
When our thoughts and actions don't match, we try to alleviate discomfort by changing our attitude or behavior.
What is cognitive dissonance?
Some alternative treatments that help with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and pain conditions include these four-legged furry friends.
What is dog therapy?
Drilling a hole in the skull to relieve the person of mental illness or a demon.
What is trephining?
The ability for our brains to read or imitate someone’s face.
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
Losing your individual awareness in a large group of people and the responsibility gets spread across and personal accountability is less apparent, such as in mob behavior.
What is deindividuation?
Putting less effort into group projects, allowing others to "pull the weight" of the group.
What is social loafing?
This resource book is used by psychologists to make diagnoses in clinical practices.
What is the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual)?
The name of the doll used in Albert Bandura's social learning study.
What is Bobo?
Threats that may be physical, psychological, or environmental; triggering the sympathetic nervous system to stimulate the release of cortisol and adrenaline hormones from the pituitary and adrenal glands.
What are stressors?
This term refers to the tendency to favor members of one's own group over members of other groups.
What is in-group bias?
When everyone in the group agrees just to maintain harmony and excessive group cohesion.
What is groupthink?
The ability to feel, fail, overcome, and bounce back when confronted with difficulties. When it improves, the risk of mental health diagnosis is lowered.
What is resilience?
The field that performs a major role in understanding criminal behavior.
What is forensic psychiatry?
Consisting of the limbic cortex, amygdala, thalamus, and hippocampus and known as the “emotional brain,” this triggers changes in blood pressure, heart rate, pupil dilation, perspiration, and breathing and provides immediate responses to fear, anger, and anxiety.
What is the limbic system?
This phenomenon occurs when individuals in a group tend to conform to the group's norms, even if it goes against their own beliefs or values, as was the case in the 'line' experiment.
What is conformity?
Refers to the tendency to believe that people get what they deserve - if they display bad character, then bad things happen to them. If they have good character, they get rewarded.
What is the just-world hypothesis?
Often used in phobia treatment, this is when the patient is taught to relax and then gradually expose them to the source of their fear over time.
What is systematic desensitization?
This nerve cell in the body is the basis for an artificial network that reflects the human brain’s ability to process learning and remembering.
What is a neuron?