Perspectives
This perspective in psychology focuses on behavioral observations
What is the Behavioral Perspective?
This brain part is responsible for the heartbeat, and automatic functions such as breathing
What is the medulla?
This disorder is characterized by an emotional response to a traumatic event or severe emotional stress.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This special brain chemicals amplifies, transmits, and converts signals from our neurons into our cells.
What is neurotransmitter?
Our personal biological clock, that occurs on a 24 continous cycle.
What is circadian rhythm?
List the 7 perspectives of psychology (that we learned in this class)
What are Evolutionary, Behavioral, Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive, Sociocultural, and biological?
This portion of the cerebral cortex is lying at the back of the head and includes areas responsible for sight.
What is Occipital lobes?
This disorder causes individuals to feel euphoric one day, then depressed and unmotivated the next.
What is bipolar disorder?
The specefic neurotransmitter that helps to relieve pain?
What is endorphin?
A recurring sleep stage that includes rapid eye movements, relaxed muscles, and vivid dreams
What is REM sleep?
This perspective supports the belief that depression is influenced by how we perceive the world and how we feel thoughts can betray us.
What is the cognitive perspective
This form of magnetic resonance imaging registers and records the blood flow to functioning areas of the brain.
What is fMRI?
This disorder is caused by overwhelming anxiety due to the perception of environments as dangerous or uncomfortable, typially because of vast openness or overcrowdedness.
What is agoraphobia?
A common mental health issue a person would experience when they suffer from an unhealthy low amount of serotonin
What is depression?
the large, slow brain waves associated with deep sleepare defined as this term.
What is delta waves?
This perspective explains how/why our mind uses defense mechanisms within our brain to reduce anxiety when faced with uncomfortable real-life situations.
what is the psychodynamic perspective?
Located in the frontal lobe, damage to this brain part would cause broken speech.
What is Broca's area?
alcohol abuse, genetic influence, and low serotonin can all side effects of what disorder?
What is major depressive disorder?
Too much _____ causes the brain to overstimulate; causes migraines and seizures?
What is glutamate?
The tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation?
What is REM rebound?
Joe plays the role of the class clown in one class, and the role of the brain in another. This approach explains why this happens by examining Joe’s interpretations of how well he assesses his abilities in the two classes.
What is the cognitive or humanistic perspective?
Reina was in a bad car accident, later that night when Reina fell asleep, she was unable to wake up due to a coma. What brain part was likely damaged in the wreck?
What is the reticular formation?
This disorder causes a person to have two or more distinct and alternating personalities?
What is DID (dissociative identity disorder)
Seizures, tremors, and high levels of anxiety are all occur when someone has too little _____.
What is Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA)?
According to Freud, this term defines the underlying subcounsiouss meaning of a past dream.
What is latent content?