Biological Psychology
The lobe of the brain that controls executive processes like higher-order thinking
What is the Frontal Lobe
A specific type of bipolar disorder that results in rapid shifts between mania and depression
What is cyclothymic
This approach to research infers that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
What is Gestalt Theory
The debate between whether human development is determined by biological or environmental factors
What is Nature vs Nurture
The part of the eye that holds our blindspot
What is the Optic Nerve
The region in the brain involved in experiencing emotions such as fear and anger
What is the Amygdala
Disorder that results from trauma accompanied by re-experiencing and lasts a minimum of 1 month
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Cognitive process in which information is repeated over and over as a way of remembering the information
What is Rehearsal
The second main stage of prenatal development.
What is embryo/embryotic?
The experiment that involved giving fake shocks to participants
What is the Milgram Experiment
The binocular cue that facilitates depth perception by allowing your right and left eye to view slightly different images
What is Retinal Disparity
This was the name of the book that started the DID revolution in America
What is Sybil?
Memory for knowledge about the world that is not tied to any specific personal experience
What is Semantic Memory
If an infant receives consistent, predictable, and reliable care they will develop a sense of trust which will carry with them to other relationships, and they will be able to feel secure even when threatened. This is an example of what stage of Erick Erikson's theory of psychological Development
What is Trust vs. Mistrust
A child who walks for a few days, falls a few times, and then goes back to crawling is experiencing __________ to a prior stage of development
What is Regression
The neurotransmitter involved in the reward pathway-imbalance in it is related to Parkinson’s and Schizophrenia
What is Dopamine
Depressive disorder that results in constant low-grade sadness with 2 additional depressive symptoms for most days in more than 2 years
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder
The tendency to recall the initial items in a series
What is Primacy Effect
Freud’s Psychosexual theory focused mainly on what two stages of development
What is Infancy and childhood
This researcher discovered the concept of LTP
Who is Kandel
The study of the effects of drugs on the nervous system and behavior
What is Psychopharmacology
Rituals performed by an individual with obsessive-compulsive disorder
What is Compulsions
This occurs when the visual stimulus changes and the observer does not notice
What is Change Blindness
This gender has a slight advantage in visuospatial tasks.
What are men?
Accepting the null hypothesis in research when there is actually an effect
What is Type II Error