Back to the Basics
This is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes in humans and animals.
What is Psychology?
This is the psychology perspective that considers rewards, punishments, reinforcement.
What is the Learning (Behavioral) Perspective?
I control verbal skills, logic, mathematics, and analytical thinking. If you’re solving a math problem or organizing your thoughts to write an essay, you’re using me. Which side of the brain am I?
What is the Left Brain
I am a neurotransmitter that creates feelings of pleasure and reward. I am often linked to motivation and addiction, and drugs like cocaine affect me.
What is Dopamine
Jake gets fired from his job but tells his friends, "I didn’t like that job anyway, and the boss was terrible!"
What is Rationalization
Justifying actions or feelings with logical-sounding excuses.
This is when participants think a drug works even though they receive no treatment.
What is the placebo effect?
This is the psychology perspective that considers the role of the brain, nervous system, and neurotransmitters.
What is the Biological Perspective?
I regulate mood, sleep, and happiness. A lack of me is often associated with depression, and antidepressants like SSRIs target me to improve mood.
What is Serotonin
Sarah, a 30-year-old woman, begins sucking her thumb after a stressful breakup.
What is Regression
Reverting to an earlier stage of development in response to stress.
This is the term for when both variables increase/decrease together.
What is positive correlation?
This is the psychology perspective that focuses on thoughts and how they determine behavior.
What is the Cognitive Perspective?
I am responsible for decision making, expressive language, motor control. What brain lobe am I?
What is the frontal lobe?
I am your body’s natural pain reliever. I help you feel euphoria, especially during exercise, like when you experience a "runner’s high."
What are Endorphins
After arguing with her best friend, Emily goes home and yells at her little brother for leaving his toys on the floor.
What is Displacement
Taking out anger on a safer target.
What are the steps, in order, of the Scientific method?
What is ask a question, form a hypothesis, collect data, analyze data, and report findings?
The psychology perspective that focuses on unconscious desires and childhood experiences.
What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?
I coordinate balance, posture, and fine motor skills. What part of the brain am I?
What is the Cerebellum?
I help with muscle movement, learning, and memory. A deficiency in me is linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
What is Acetylcholine
After a traumatic car accident, David cannot remember any details of what happened.
What is Repression
Banishing distressing thoughts or memories into the unconscious.
List Maslow's hierarchy of needs in order.
What are Physical Needs, Safety, Protection and security, Belonging: Need for love and relationships, Feeling Recognized, Reaching Potential
This is the perspective that considers an individual’s free will, potential, inherit drive to be successful.
What is the Humanistic Perspective?
I process hearing, understanding language, and memory. What part of the brain am I?
What is the Temporal Lobe?
I am the major inhibitory neurotransmitter that calms your nervous system, reducing anxiety. Low levels of me can lead to seizures or anxiety disorders.
What is GABA
John is very critical of other people for being dishonest, but he often tells small lies himself.
What is Projection
Attributing one’s own unacceptable qualities to someone else.