Mental Disorders
A disorder characterized by excessive worry about everyday events
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
The ability to store and retrieve information
What is memory?
The process of forming impressions about others based on their behavior
What is person perception?
The structure responsible for regulating emotions
What is the amygdala?
The theory that human behavior is driven by unconscious desires and conflicts
What is psychoanalytic theory?
A disorder where a person experiences flashbacks and nightmares after a traumatic event.
What is PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)?
The cognitive process of breaking information into smaller, meaningful units to aid memory retention
What is chunking?
The concept where individuals perform better on simple tasks when in the presence of others
What is social facilitation?
The neurotransmitter involved in movement and Parkinson’s disease
What is dopamine?
The theory that categorizes intelligence into multiple types, such as linguistic, spatial, and musical
What is Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences?
A disorder where individuals exhibit a lack of social interaction and restricted repetitive behaviours.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
The phenomenon where prior exposure to a stimulus influences response to a later stimulus without conscious awareness.
What is priming?
The experiment that showed people conforming to a group’s incorrect judgment
What is the Asch conformity experiment?
The lobe of the brain responsible for touch and spatial processing
What is the parietal lobe?
The cognitive development theory that describes how children construct knowledge through schemas
What is Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
A disorder where individuals have memory gaps and dissociate from their identity due to trauma.
What is dissociative amnesia?
The phenomenon where recently learned information interferes with old memories.
What is retroactive interference?
The phenomenon where individuals attribute their successes to personal traits but blame failures on external factors
What is self serving bias?
The structure in the brainstem responsible for controlling heart rate and breathing
What is the medulla oblongata?
The theory stating that people are motivated to reduce the discomfort of inconsistent beliefs and behaviors
What is cognitive dissonance theory?
The disorder where individuals fabricate or exaggerate illness for attention.
What is factitious disorder?
The psychological concept that suggests language influences thought.
What is the linguistic relativity hypothesis?
The theory that people attribute their own failures to external factors but others' failures to internal traits
What is the actor-observer bias?
The name for the thick band of fibres connecting the brain’s hemispheres
What is the corpus callosum?
The theory that explains how people decide whether to help others based on weighing costs and benefits
What is social exchange theory?