Approaches to Psychology
This approach examines behavior in terms of physical changes that take place in the body, including the neurotransmitters and hormones that affect mood and thinking.
Panic disorder, phobias, and OCD are examples of this category.
What are anxiety disorders?
These memories are retained for weeks, months, or years
What are long-term memories?
This sleep disorder is characterized by frequently stopping regular breathing during sleep.
What is sleep apnea?
This gland is known as the "master gland" because it signals other glands to increase or decrease hormones.
What is the pituitary gland?
This approach sees behavior as a product of internal thought processes.
What is the cognitive approach?
Paranoid-type and catatonic-type are specific kinds of this psychotic disorder.
What is schizophrenia?
Memory that lasts for a few moments.
What is short-term memory?
This is the relaxed state just before we fall asleep.
What is twilight?
This lobe is located in the back of the brain and controls vision perception.
What is the occipital lobe?
Freud was a leader in this approach, which considers behavior as a result of impulses in the subconscious.
What is the psychoanalytic approach?
People who experience extreme mood elevations followed by extreme depression suffer from this disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
This is a common word used to describe an error in the ability to recall information.
What is forgetting?
This is the level of consciousness just below our present awareness.
What is the subconscious?
This part of the brain, essential to making good decisions, is not fully developed until you're in your early 20s.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This approach sees human behavior as inherently good and part of our intrinsic nature.
What is the humanistic approach?
Conversion disorder, where physical ailments occur as a result of psychological issues, is an example of this.
What is a somatoform disorder?
This memory disorder often occurs following a blow to the head and results in forgetting events from a few minutes or even days before the injury.
What is amnesia?
The cycle of sleep involving rapid eye movement and vivid dreams
What is REM sleep?
This connects to the spinal cord and together, they compose the central nervous system.
What is the brain?
This approach sees behavior in terms of the rules and expectations of the society and culture around us.
What is the sociocultural approach?
Someone with this type of disorder has difficulty with relationships, due to the development of problematic personality traits.
What is a personality disorder?
Being able to bring back specific pieces of information and details
What is recall?
Night terrors occur in this sleep cycle.
What is NREM?
The brain is composed of billions of these, the name for nerve cells.
What are neurons?