Biology
A small portion of the left frontal region of the brain, crucial for producing speech
What is the Broca's area
What is consciousness?
Edward Tolman claimed this term by experimenting with reinforcement on rates in mazes
What is a cognitive map?
symptoms of schizophrenia are deficits in functioning, such as apathy, lack of emotion, slowed speech, and slowed movement
What is Negative Symptoms?
Psychological treatment aimed at changing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Psychotherapy?
A subcortical forebrain structure associated with the formation of new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
the focusing of mental resources on specific information to become consciously aware of that information
what is attention?
This term describes demonstrating a behavior to imitate a behavior that was previously observed?
What is modeling?
a personality disorder marked by disregard for and violation of the rights of others and by lack of remorse. (Aileen Wuornos)
Antisocial Personality Disorder
What is behavior therapy?
a portion of the brain that consists of the medulla, pons, and cerebellum and connects the brain to the spinal cord.
What is the brain stem?
The state of sleep in which a person experiences rapid eye movements and dreaming
What is REM sleep?
A decrease in behavioral response after lengthy or repeated exposure to a stimulus.
What is habituation?
A mood disorder characterized by alternating periods of extremely depressed and mildly elevated moods.
Therapy technique that involves repeatedly exposing a client to an anxiety-producing stimulus.
What is exposure therapy?
a network of billions of cells in the brain and the body that are responsible for what you think, feel, and do.
what is the nervous system?
The disorder characterized by a repeated inability to sleep
A learning process in which an action's consequences determine how likely an action is to be performed in the future
What is operant conditioning?
Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized speech, Disorganized behavior, and negative symptoms
What are the five major DSM-5 symptoms for schizophrenia?
Surgery performed on brain tissue to relieve or control severe psychological disorders
What is psychosurgery?
the neural impulse that travels along the axon and causes the release of neurotransmitter into the synapse.
What is action potential?
A drug that can change perceptions, thoughts, and emotions.
What are Hallucinogens?
A school of thought that emphasizes the role of environmental factor in producing behavior
What is behaviorism?
A psychological disorder characterized by frequent intrusive thoughts that create anxiety and compulsive actions that temporarily reduce the anxiety. (Howie Mandel)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Treatment for psychological disorders in which a therapist works with clients to help them change distorted thought patterns.
what is cognitive therapy?