Intro to Psych
The definition of Psychology
What is the scientific study of the mind and its functions?
According to this philosopher, we undergo 4 distinct cognitive stages of development, and we all begin life in the "sensorimotor" stage.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This is produced by a response to certain stimuli in the environment or a consequence of that individual's history
What is behavior?
The organization of sensory experiences into meaningful experiences
What is perception?
This is the diagnostic manual that evaluates and provides the diagnoses for all psychological disorders
What is the DSM (V)
This approach to psychology believes that behavior and mental processes are shaped by biological processes
This psychologist theorized about an "identity crisis" that commonly occurs in adolescents
Who is Erik Erikson?
The learner understands the results of their behavior through a system of rewards or punishments
What is operant conditioning?
What is working memory?
These three things must all be present when defining or diagnosing a psychological disorder.
What are Deviance, Distress, and Dysfunction?
A proposed explanation based on limited information that requires further investigation
What is a hypothesis?
This psychologist developed a theory of 5 stages of psychosexual development.
This famous experimenter developed the theory of classical conditioning through the salivation of a dog at the sound of a bell
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
In this type of processing, knowledge and expectations influence what we perceive
What is Top-down processing?
A personality disorder in which the person seems to have a heighten sense of their own uniqueness and superior abilities,but lack empathy and positive regard for others
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
A type of psychological research that involves Close examination of the behavior and mental processes associated with a specific person or situation
What is a Case Study?
Mental structures or frameworks that help individuals organize and interpret information.
What are Schemas
This experiment tested to see if agression was transmitted through observation
A neurological condition where sensory stimulus in one modality triggers an invlountary experience in another modality.
What is Synethsesia
This is the leading cause of disability worldwide and includes both reactive and endogenous types.
What is depression?
This type of psychological research involves manipulating an independent variable and measures its effect.
What is an Experiment?
According to this stage of Erikson's theory, a successful person will create or nurture things that will outlast them, contributing to society
What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?
This experimenter developed his theory of operant conditioning through having rats run through a maze and recieve rewards and punishments
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Pain signals can be modulated at the spinal cord level by other sensory inputs.
What is "gate control theory"?
What is the bio-psychosocial perspective?