PY 101
the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
What is Psychology
This area of the brain sits in the back and is responsible for visual processing and controls ocular functions.
This Lewin's system uses the concept of fields of force to explain behavior in terms of one's field of social influences
What is Field theory
This psychological disorder is characterized by persistent worry, excessive anxiety, and physical symptoms such as restlessness and tension.
What is generalized anxiety disorder
a long-standing debate in biology and society about the relative influence on human beings of their genetic inheritance and the environmental conditions of their development
What is nature/nurture
A relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience.
What is learning
This is the oldest part of the Brain which includes the Pons, Medulla Oblongata, and Spinal Cord.
What is the brain stem>
Occurs when people may privately be concerned about an issue, but in order to avoid conflict, they do not express their concern.
What is groupthink
This psychological disorder is characterized by recurrent, intrusive thoughts or images and repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed to alleviate anxiety.
What is OCD
What are the 3 different attachment styles?
What is secure, insecure-avoidant, and insecure-resistant/ambivalent?
The weakening of a conditioned response through the removal of the connection between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
What is extinction?
This neurotransmitter's biological function is complex and multifaceted, modulating mood, cognition, reward, learning, memory, and numerous physiological processes such as vomiting and vasoconstriction
The philosophical position that the mind and body are separate
What is Dualism
a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats to a person's life or well-being.
What is PTSD
understanding that items and people still exist even when you can't see or hear them. This concept was discovered by child psychologist Jean Piaget
What is object permanence
school of psychology that studies mental processes, including how people think, perceive, remember, and learn.
What is Cognitive Psychology
What is the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes
Where you are and how you feel influence how you think and what you think about
Usually involves delusions (false beliefs), hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that don't exist), unusual physical behavior, and disorganized thinking and speech.
What is Schizophrenia
This Swiss psychologist, suggests that children's intelligence undergoes changes as they grow in his theory. What is his name?
Who is Piaget
The threshold is the amount of stimulation required for the neuron to fire. If the stimulation is insufficient the neuron will not fire. What is this known as
What is the all or none response
What area located in the left hemisphere, is associated with speech production and articulation? Our ability to articulate ideas, as well as use words accurately in spoken and written language, has been attributed to this crucial area.
What is the Broca's Area
the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.
What is cognitive dissonance
a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last from days to weeks.
What is Bipolar Disorder
What is the first stage in Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development? This stage begins at birth and lasts through one year of age.
Trust vs. Mistrust