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The phenomenon whereby a stimulus that elicits an emotional response (e.g., your grandmother) is repeatedly paired with a neutral stimulus that does not (e.g., the smell of mothballs) until the neutral stimulus takes on the emotional properties of the first stimulus.
What is Classical Conditioning
100
A single extension from the nerve cell that carries nerve impulses from the cell body to other neurons.
What is Axon
100
A person's belief in his or her ability to succeed at the task at hand
What is Self Efficacy
100
irrational fear of a specific object or situation which is severe enough to interfere with an individual's functioning in daily life
What is Phobia
100
theories were enormously influential, but subject to considerable criticism both now and during his own life. However, his ideas have become interwoven into the fabric of our culture, with terms such as "repression" and "denial" appearing regularly in everyday language.
Who is Sigmund Freud
200
Evaluations of people, objects, ideas.
What are Attitudes
200
The portion of the nervous system that includes the brain and the spinal cord.
What is Central Nervous System (CNS)
200
Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active
What is Hierarchy of needs.
200
mood disorder characterised by sleep disturbances, fatigue and low self-esteem
What is depression
200
Russian physiologist whose research on conditioned reflexes influenced the rise of behaviorism in psychology.
Who is Ivan Pavlov
300
A generalization about a group of people in which certain traits are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members.
What is Stereotype
300
A medial temporal lobe structure that is important for learning and memory.
What is Hippocampus
300
a positive stress that energizes a person and helps a person reach a goal
What is Eustress.
300
a severe form of mental disorder in which there can be distortions of perception, thought, language and emotions
What is schizophrenia
300
His most famous experiment was the 1961 Bobo doll study.
Who is Albert Bandura
400
The process by which recent experiences increase the accessibility of a schema, trait, or concept.
What is priming.
400
The region of the brain that consists of the midbrain, the pons, and the medulla.
What is Brainstem
400
The tendency to assign generally positive or generally negative traits to a person after observing one specific positive or negative trait, respectively.
What is Halo Effect
400
Inflexible and maladaptive patterns of personality that usually stabilize over time and result in functional impairment and distress to the individual.
What is Personality disorders
400
Today, he is best known for his research on children's cognitive development. He studied the intellectual development of his own three children and created a theory that described the stages that children pass through in the development of intelligence and formal thought processes.
Who is Jean Piaget
500
A drive or feeling of discomfort, originally defined as being caused by holding two or more inconsistent cognitions and subsequently defined as being caused by performing an action that is discrepant from ones customary, typically positive self-conception.
What is Cognitive Dissonance.
500
The chemical released from the presynaptic axon terminal that serves as the basis of communication between neurons.
What is Neurotransmitter
500
relationship marked by reciprocated exclusiveness, absorption, predisposition to help and interdependence
What is Love
500
A group of psychological disorders, including depressive and bipolar disorders, characterized by severe and prolonged disruptions such as periods of mania and clinical depression.
What are mood disorders
500
He conducted various studies and published articles during his lifetime, with the most notable being his controversial study on obedience to authority, conducted in the 1960s.
Who is Stanley Milgram