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Intro to Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
Theories of Personality
Adolescent Psychology
Child Development
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A person that has been diagnosed with depression with a secondary diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder is experiencing this.
What is comorbidity?
100
The behavioral term for introducing an aversive consequence in order to decrease the frequency of a behavior:
What is punishment?
100
What are the universal components of an idea called?
What are etics?
100
Doing as others do, whether or not it fits with personal inclinations is defined as being what?
What is Conformity?
100
The function of the hippocampus is what?
What is memory? (the transfer of info from short term memory to long term)
200
This type of therapist is a medical doctor who has completed an MD with specialized training in assessing and treating mental disorders.
What is a psychiatrist?
200
This philosophical belief claims that people learn in order to seek pleasure and to avoid pain
What is Hedonism?
200
This disorder is characterized by rapid mood shifts, uncontrollable anger, self-destructive acts, self-damaging behaviors, identity disturbance, chronic emptiness, unstable relationships, fear of abandonment and confusion and feelings of unreality.
What is borderline personality disorder?
200
According to Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, which stage involves abstract reasoning?
What is Formal Operational?
200
What is infantile amnesia?
What is the inability to remember anything prior to 2 years of age?
300
This treatment for seasonal depression that involves repeated exposure to bright light
What is phototherapy?
300
The overall opinion of the self:
What is self-esteem?
300
This philosophical belief claims that people learn in order to seek pleasure and to avoid pain
What is Hedonism?
300
Mood swings and emotional storms that teens experience are now called what?
What are raging hormones?
300
What accelerates gross motor function and fine motor tasks in middle childhood?
What is the corpus callosum?
400
Thinking that is more intuitive, less conscious, quicker, and less effortful is what type of thinking?
What is Heuristic thinking?
400
Danger to the self or others is part of the criteria for what?
What is civil commitment?
400
Nima moved to the United States when she was 5 years old, and she gradually adopted the language, attitudes, and styles of American culture. The process through which Nima became Americanized is
What is acculturation?
400
For Piaget, the process of assuming that other peoples points of view are the same as one’s own are called what?
What is Ego-Centrism?
400
Insight, or the apparently spontaneous apprehension or understanding of relationships, is part of what school of psychology?
What is Gestalt psychology?
500
Someone who leaves their house and assumes a new identity with no memory of their past might be experiencing this.
What is dissociative fugue?
500
These organs, the heart, kidney, brain, digestive system, bones, skin and endocrine glands, are affected most by this disorder.
What is bulimia?
500
The overall opinion of the self:
What is self-esteem?
500
What are the 5 C's?
What are Competence, Confidence, Character, Connection, and Caring?
500
Wolfgang Kohler used this type of animal to study animal intelligence as well as their problem solving abilities.
What are chimpanzees?