Disorders
What is the mental health disorder where excessive fear or worry interferes with your daily life.
Anxiety disorder
Factor in the experiment that is manipulated
Independent variable
encoding based on the meaning of the words
deep processing
Parts of the central nervous system
Brain and brain stem
Learning method that employs reward and punishment for behavior
operant conditioning
An unstable emotional condition characterized by cycles of abnormal, persistent high mood (mania) and low mood (depression)
Bipolar disorder
Both the participants and researchers don't know whether participants have received placebo or real treatment
Double-blind study
Process of getting memories or information out of storage
Retrieval
Region of the brain primary associated with emotional processing
Amygdala
A way people think they can control their fate by performing certain tasks a certain way
Superstitious behavior
a mental health condition characterized by intrusive and unwanted thoughts or images (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions) performed to try and alleviate the distress caused by those thoughts
OCD
The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it was supposed to
validity
memory of specific event, how it happened, what, where, and when
episodic memory
A structure deep within your brain that keeps your body at homeostasis
Hypothalamus
people are inherently inclined to form associations between certain stimuli and responses
biological preparedness
a type of anxiety disorder characterized by intense fear and anxiety in situations where escape might be difficult or help unavailable
Agoraphobia
Unintended influence researchers may on the outcome of an experiment due to prior expectations or beleifs
experimenter bias
Retention of learned skills, independent of conscious recollection
Implicit memory
Region in your brain that is linked with speech production
Broca's area
encouragement of certain behavior by removing or avoiding a negative outcome
Negative reinforcement
a form of social anxiety characterized by intense fear of displeasing or embarrassing others through one's physical appearance, bodily functions, or social behavior in Japanese culture
Taijin kyofusho
when an unwanted variable influences both variables being measured
third-variable problem
Increase in a cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory.
Long-term memory
state of recovery after a neuron has fired an action potential
Refractory period
learning occurs through observation, imitation, and modeling
social learning theory