History
The science of behavior and mental processes is also known as...
Psychology
What are Defense Mechanisms?
The egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
The biological clock; regular bodily functions that occur on a 24-hour cycle
You make a small request, and once the person agrees to this, they find it more difficult to refuse a bigger one. This is called...
Foot-in-the-door
What is dementia?
Impaired ability to remember, think, and make decisions that interfere with doing everyday behaviors
Margaret Floy Washburn
What is Rationalization?
It is a defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening unconscious reasons for ones actions.
A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal, the appearance of immense fear, unlike nightmares. This happens within 2-3 hours after falling asleep.
Night terrors
The tendency for observers when analyzing another behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition is called what?
Fundamental Attribution Error
You are having dinner with your friend who experiences a sudden onsets of intense terror, without warning and with no specific cause. Your friend would most likely be diagnosed as suffering from:
Panic Disorder
Known for his classical conditioning with dogs
Ivan Pavlov
Wat is Freud's theory of personality?
The theory that states the role of the ego is to satisfy the ID without offending the superego
A spilt in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
Stronger responses on simple or well-learned tasks in the presence of others
Social Facilitation
A person who regularly experiences motor tension. hyperactivity, apprehensive expectations and thoughts are likely to suffer from:
Anxiety Disorder
What does a psychometrician do?
They focus on methods for acquiring and analyzing psychological data.
What is the Theoretic Appreciation Test (TAT)?
A projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interest through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.
Drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment are called?
Barbiturates
He conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment, criticized for its unethical study. Who was he?
Phillip Zimbardo
Michael is extremely fearful of germs. He sleeps in a special chamber at night, wears gloves, and will only eat food that he can unwrap. His symptoms are most characteristic of what disorder?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
A psychological perspective concerning an individual's potential for growth & the role of unique perceptions in growth toward one's potential.
Humanistic Psychology
What is Collective Unconscious?
Carl Jung's concept of a shared, and inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history.
Dreams reflect inputs from brain activity originating in the pons, which then the forebrain then attempts to weave into a story.
The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases the liking of them
Mere exposure effect
Mrs. Higgins believes that aliens from another planet have removed her stomach and are watching to see how long it takes her to grow another. Mrs. Higgins is most likely suffering from what disorder??
Schizophrenia