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Review Jeopardy
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Biological
Psychology
States of
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Personality
Motivation
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German professor who established the
first psychology laboratory at the
University of Leipzig, Germany.
Which perspective in psychology explains
behaviors as a manifestation of the
unconscious mind (including unresolved
conflicts, childhood trauma, repressed
memories) and that it controls much of
our thoughts and actions.
This perspective in psychology explains
the causes of human thoughts and
behaviors by looking strictly at observable
behaviors and what reaction organisms
offer in response to specific stimulus.
This field of applied psychology deals
with the practical issues of selecting and
training a workforce, productivity, job
stress, motivation, automation.
This perspective in psychology explains
human behaviors in terms of how we
mentally process and interpret our
environment; psychologists emphasize
brain-based activities such as memory
processes, problem solving, perception,
and language.
These neurons are responsible for
processing information in the brain and
spinal cord.
This neurotransmitter is mostly
responsible for rewarding a person for a
good deed by making them “feel good”, as
well as some motor control behaviors.
The part of the peripheral nervous system
responsible for the body’s return to normal
after a stressful situation is referred to as
the _______ nervous system.
A visual display of brain activity that
detects where a radioactive form of
glucose goes while the brain performs a
given task.
The brain region responsible for several
maintenance activities, including eating,
drinking, body temperature, and sexual
arousal.
A biological clock that is synchronized with
the 24-hour cycle of day and night.
The theory that dreams are the result of
random neural impulses put into a story
format by the cortex in order to try and
make sense of it.
Quick bursts of brain activity (memory
creation?) that last for a second or two
occur during Stage 2 of sleep are called?
Typical of drug usage is the fact that
eventually higher doses of a drug are
required to produce the original effects.
A command, made during a hypnosis
session, to be carried out after the subject
is no longer hypnotized.
The encoding of words, definitions,
meanings, names, dates, events.
A mnemonic technique that organizes
items into smaller, more familiar and
manageable units.
Our retained memories of specific events,
stored in a sequence.
A measure of memory in which a person
only needs to identify items previously
learned.
The tendency to remember information
more accurately when you are in a
physical setting that is similar to the one
that you learned the information in the
first place.
The part of the subconscious mind that
focuses on the real world and internalizes
ideals, standards, laws.
The actual, literal content of dreams
A defense mechanism by which we revert
to comfort behaviors to ease the stress
away
A defense mechanism that diverts sexual
or aggressive impulses towards a more
acceptable (or less threatening) object or
person
The failure to achieve a proper resolution
through the development of the superego
will cause a child to become ________ in
the present stage
Behavior is motivated by the desire to
reduce internal tension caused by unmet
biological needs
The body monitors and maintains
relatively constant levels of internal
states, such as body temperature, fluid
levels, and energy supplies
The part of the brain that is responsible
for stimulating hunger
To explain how we experience emotions,
this theory states that there is a
simultaneous reaction to stimuli of
physical arousal and emotions
A protein secreted by fat cells; when it is
abundant it causes the brain to increase
metabolism
The conscious attempts of a patient to
block the flow of free association
discussions is called ____
Involves a therapist’s technique of
listening intently, echoing, restarting and
seeking clarification, and
acknowledgement of a clients expressed
verbal and non-verbal emotions
A therapist’s attempt to gradually
substitute a positive response for a
negative response to a harmless stimulus
_____ therapists attempt to teach people
new, more adaptive and logical ways of
thinking and acting
Anti-psychotic drugs typically work by
attaching themselves to receptor sites for
which neurotransmitter, thus blocking its
transmission from neuron to neuron
Psychological perspective that
emphasizes the influence of groups,
culture, and the environment on the way
that we think and act.
Medical doctors that can prescribe
medications to treat the physical and
mental causes of psychological disorders.
Visual processing is the primary function
of the ______ lobe.
Brain region primarily tied to recognizing
emotions, especially those of aggression,
rage, disgust, and fear.
Once the large, slow delta waves of sleep
are more than 50% of the brain wave
pattern, a sleeper has entered _____
sleep.
Psychoactive chemicals that slow down
behavior or cognitive processes and inhibit
central nervous system activity.
Our tendency to recall best the last and
first items in a list.
When something you learned earlier (an
old memory) disrupts your ability to create
a new memory.
A defense mechanism that disguises
stressful character flaws by attributing
them to others
Personality “type” whereas people tend to
feel a sense of pressure, easily angered,
competitive.
The theory that people are motivated to
satisfy a progression of internal needs,
beginning with the most basic and moving
towards the realization of personal
potential
A belief that we control our own destiny
and behaviors, and that our success and
failures are due to our own efforts and
faults.
A therapist rewards patients for displaying
appropriate behaviors by giving them a
ticket or a plastic coin that they can later
exchange for prizes or gifts
During therapy, patients may begin to
experience strong feelings towards their
therapists in order to depersonalize their
experience