GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
Who is the Father of Psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
How did Erik Erikson define the first stage of Psychosocial Development?
Trust vs. Mistrust
What are the chemical messengers released into the spatial junctions between neurons?
Neurotransmitters
What does CBT stand for?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This variable in experimental research is manipulated by the experimenter to see its effects on the other variable.
Independent Variable
What is the basic unit of our Nervous System?
Neurons
This is a concept of Behavioral Analysis that uses rewards and punishments to alter behavior.
Operant Conditioning
What is the extension of a neuron that carries messages away from the cell body?
Axon
This approach involves a collaborative effort between a client and a counselor who works with individuals to help them navigate and better deal with a variety of issues.
Counseling
This research design seeks to gather information that explains how individuals experience a phenomenon and how they feel about it.
Phenomenology
This defines the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique.
Neurons
What is the personality theory that is famous for its Hierarchy of Needs?
Holistic-Dynamic Theory
This gland secretes the hormone melatonin, which regulates the sleep-wake cycle, secreted primarily at night.
Pineal Gland
This listening skill involves restating or rephrasing what the speaker has said in your own words.
Paraphrasing
This test determines the differences between research results from three or more unrelated samples or groups.
Analysis of Variance or ANOVA
Who is the founder of Behaviorism?
John B. Watson
What are the three concepts of Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Theory?
Congruence, Empathy, and Unconditional Positive Regard
This autonomic nervous system has an activation or arousal function, sometimes called the fight-or-flight response.
Sympathetic Nervous System
Collaborative empiricism, guided discovery, and Socratic questioning are the core elements of this therapeutic relationship.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
These test statistics require the data to be continuous and normally distributed.
Parametric Tests
What are the four goals of Psychology?
Describe, Explain, Predict, and Control
Define the acronym 'OCEAN' in Five-Factor Trait Theory.
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism
How many pairs of spinal nerves does a human body have?
31 pairs
Clients transfer onto the therapist the behaviors and feelings they originally established toward their father, mother, or another important person in their lives.
Transference
This is the systematic way of exploring and investigating topics of interest. It involves a series of scientific steps that enable an unbiased discovery of new facts.
Research