Unit 1
A child famously raised without exposure to language.
Genie
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
A p-value has to be under ___ for it to be significant
0.05
An extreme or irrational fear is known as?
Phobia
The neurotransmitter/chemical that relates to pleasure and reward:
Dopamine
The psychologist who created psychoanalysis:
Sigmund Freud
Motivation can be either intrinsic or _________.
Extrinsic.
Name 2 of the 4 types of statistical scales
Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio
What resource/text do psychologists use to make diagnoses?
DSM-5
The portion of the nervous system that includes the brain and the spinal cord
CNS (Central Nervous System)
Harlow's attachment theory started with experiments, giving fake wire-frame or fur-covered 'mothers' to __________.
monkeys
A personality disorder featuring extreme instability in mood and relationships.
Bipolar disorder
In an experimental study, participants are typically randomly assigned to what two groups?
Multiple personality disorder is now known as?
Dissociative identity disorder
A temporal lobe structure involved in learning and memory
Hippocampus
Mary Ainsworth researched attachment using the _____________ test.
Strange Situation
A psychological approach to wellbeing that uses attention and acceptance, and techniques like meditation.
Mindfulness
What are mean, median, and mode a measure of?
What is MDD (depression) most comorbid with?
Anxiety disorders (GAD, SAD, etc.)
The region of the brain that includes the midbrain, the pons, and the medulla:
Brainstem
Most dreaming occurs during which stage of sleep?
REM sleep
Howard Gardner
The prediction that the independent variable will not change the dependent variable, or that there will be no relationship between them.
Null hypothesis
Borderline personality disorder falls under the category of ____ disorders
personality
A single extension from the nerve cell that carries nerve impulses from the cell body to other neurons
Axon