Abnormal
This was once called "multiple personality disorder".
What is Dissociative identity disorder?
The form of psychodynamic therapy developed by Sigmund Freud. The goal is to release conflicts and memories from the unconscious.
What is psychoanalysis?
Developed psychoanalysis; considered to be "father of modern psychiatry"
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Theory which states that opposing retinal processes enable color vision (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black).
What is the Opponent-process theory?
A brain-stem structure that regulates brain activity during sleep and dreaming.
What is the pons?
An unstable personality given to impulsive behavior.
What is Borderline personality disorder?
Albert Ellis's brand of cognitive therapy, based on the idea that irrational thoughts and behaviors are the cause of mental disorders.
What is Rational-emotive behavior therapy?
Founder of Structuralism and modern psychology.
Who is William Wundt?
This theory states that the spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain.
What is the Gate-control theory?
The microscopic gap that serves as a communications link between neurons.
What is the synapse?
A type of somatoform disorder, marked by paralysis, weakness, or loss of sensation but with no discernible physical cause.
What is Conversion disorder?
An incurable disorder of motor control, especially involving muscles of the face and head, resulting from long-term of antipsychotic drugs.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
Denied her PhD at Harvard because she was a woman.
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
Theory that predicts how and when we detect the presences of a faint stimulus amid background stimulation.
What is the Signal Detection Theory?
The nervous system's ability to adapt or change as the result of experience.
What is plasticity?
These protect the ego from anxiety.
What are defense mechanisms?
A neurosurgical procedure and form of psychosurgery that consists of removing away most of the connections to and from the frontal lobes of the brain.
What is lobotomy?
Creator of the Triarchic theory of intelligence.
Who is Robert Sternberg?
This theory links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochlea’s membrane is stimulated.
What is the Place theory?
A division of the peripheral nervous system that carries sensory information to the central nervous system and also sends voluntary messages to the body's skeletal muscles.
What is the Somatic nervous system?
This disorder involves craving and consuming non-food substances such as dirt, paint, or soap.
What is pica?
Discovered the mere exposure effect.
Who is Robert Zajonc?
Theory of emotion which theorizes that individuals decide on an appropriate emotion following the event.
What is the Cognitive appraisal theory?
White matter is mainly made up of this.
What are axons?