Basic Level
The broad study of the mind, brain and behavior to understand how people think, feel ,and act.
What is Psychology?
Chamging your behavior, beliefs, or attitude to match a groups or social norm, driven by the need to fit in or be accepted
What is Conformity?
the complex command center of the body, nervous system, controlling thoughts, emotions, senses, movement, and automatic functions like breathing and heart rate. A soft fatty organ protected by the skull
What is the Brain?
i'm a learning process where a subject develops or changes a behavior through association with a stimulis
What is Conditioning?
What are the basic 3 concepts in Freudian psychology representing our unconsciousness?
What is the Id, Ego , and Superego?
the behaviors, patterns, dynamics, and psychological proccesses within between social groups
What is Group Dynamics?
the brains largest lobe, located behind your forehead
What is the Frontal Lobe?
A neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus that naturally elicits a response
What is Classical Conditioning?
What man revolutionized the understanding of the human mind?
Sigmund Freud
a fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
What is a Stereotype?
One of thr four major brain lobes, located behind your head and is responsible for visiual stimuli and interprets information
What is the Occipital
Lobe?
Suzy goes outside to play in her tree house. A swarm of bees has nested near her house, and she gets stung several timed when she climbs up to the tree house. This happens 3 times in a week. Suzy then becomes afraid to go near the tree house and cries voilently when her dad tries to get her to climb up to the tree house. What is the conditioned response??
What is Fear/Hurt?
an uncontrollable, intense, persistent, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, animal or activity that is disproportionate to the actual danger
What is a Phobia?
What is Social Psychology?
Coordinating movement touch taste temperature spacial awareness and attention
A stimulus that automatically and naturally triggers a response without any prior training or learning
What is unconditioned stimulus?
What is an unconscious psychological strategy used to protect yourself from anxiety, stress and emotion often by distorting reality to maintain psychological balance.
What is Defense Mechanisms ?
mental discomfort from holding conflicting beliefs, vales, or attitudes , or when your actions contradict them, creating psychological tension
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
Connects to the spinal cord and controls vital functions like breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, consciousness, swallowing and sleep
What is the Brain Stem?
What type of reinforcement increases a behavior by removing something bad?
What is Negative Reinforcement?