Psychological Disorders
The tendency to use or abuse alcohol to a degree that leads to social or occupational dysfunction.
Alcoholism
What are the three steps of memory?
Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval
What is the process of receiving information from the environment?
Sensation
Jenny watched her mom put on make-up. She then picked up a make-up brush and pretended to do her own makeup. What type of learning occurred?
Observational Learning
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
Psychology
Characterized by excessive, global, and persistent symptoms of anxiety; it is sometimes referred to as free-floating anxiety.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
What is the first stage of memory where information enters the nervous system through the sensory systems?
Sensory Memory
What is the color part of the eye; it controls the amount of light getting in the eye?
Iris
Learning to make a reflex response to a stimulus other than the original, natural stimulus is what type of conditioning?
Classical Conditioning
focused on uncovering the fundamental mental components of perception, consciousness, thinking, emotions and other kinds of mental states and activities
Structuralism
The fear of being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult.
Agoraphobia
What type of amnesia causes poor memory of events that occurred before the brain injury?
Retrograde Amnesia
What are specialized cells in the sense organs that detect physical stimulation from the external world and change that stimulation into information that the brain can process?
Sensory Receptors
In an experiment, a rat was placed in a box with a button. When the rat pressed the button they were given food. This is an example of what type of reinforcement or punishment?
Positive Reinforcement
a false treatment such as a pill, "drug," or other substance, without any significant chemical properties or active ingredient
Placebo
What medication is commonly used to treat bipolar disorder?
Lithium
What is a brief memory of something a person just heard?
Echoic Memory
What is a decrease in sensitivity to a constant level of stimulation of sensory receptors?
Sensory Adaption
What psychologist focused on the environment as the key determinant for learning?
John Watson
An in-depth, intense investigation of an individual or small group of people
Case study
Causes of a disorder
Etiology
How long does short-term memory last without rehearsal?
15-30 Seconds
What is the thin inner surface of the back of the eyeball; this surface contains the sensory receptors?
Retina
What type of learning remains hidden until its application becomes useful?
Latent Learning
A brief change in the electric voltage of a neuron in response to stimulation
Action potential