The term for a mental image or best example of a category
What is a prototype?
100
In a spoken language, this is smallest distinctive sound unit
What is a phoneme?
100
the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
What is the DSM-IV
100
Growing research has implicated these causes in the development of psychological disorders.
What is biological factors
100
This 1984 song by Rockwell featuring Michael Jackson could have been written about someone with paranoid delusions.
What is "Somebody's Watching Me"
200
A methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
What is an algorithm?
200
in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix
What is a morpheme?
200
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations
What is panic disorder
200
Some researchers have shown an apparant link between artistic and creative abilities and this disorder.
What is bipolar disorder
200
Perhaps the original boy band, this singing group from Boston Mass. was formed in 1984.
What is the New Kids on the Block?
300
A rule-of-thumb thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgment and solve problems efficiently
What is heuristics?
300
This well-known linguist proposed the idea that humans have an inborn native ability to develop language
Who is Noam Chomsky?
300
A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania
What is bipolar disorder?
300
Research has shown that 75% of psychological disorders will develop by this stage of life.
What is young adulthood?
300
These children's books created by British illustrator Martin Handford. T consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things at a given location.
What is Where's Waldo?
400
This is the tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning, sometimes by making invalid conclusions seem valid, or valid conclusions seem invalid
What is belief bias?
400
The set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language
What is semantics?
400
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
What is a schizophrenia?
400
Research has shown that major psychological disorders are seen at the same rates in which geographic locations?
What is worldwide (in all cultures)
400
The twentieth book of the New Testament, this book is believed by some Bible scholars to have been written by the brother of Jesus.
What is James?
500
A term for how an issue is posed.
What is framing?
500
The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
What is syntax?
500
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
What are Personality Disorders?
500
A contemporary perspective which assumes that biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders
What is bio-psycho-social perspective
500
This actor won three emmy awards for his role as Adrian Monk, a detective with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.