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(cerebral) cortex Abraham Maslow
Aaron Beck Absolute threshold
Abnormal Behavior Accommodation
Abnormal psychology acetylcholine (ACh)
1a
humanistic psychology; wrinkled outer portion of
hierarchy of needs-needs at a brain; center for higher order
lower level dominate an brain functions such as
individual's motivation as long thinking, planning, judgment;
as they are unsatisfied; self- processes sensory information
actualization, transcendence and directs movement
The statistically
pioneer in Cognitive
determined minimum
Therapy. Suggested
level of stimulation
negative beliefs cause
necessary to excite a
depression.
perceptual system.
According to Piaget, the Behavior characterized as
atypical, socially unacceptable,
process by which existing
distressing to the individual or
mental structures and
others, maladaptive, and/or
behaviors are modified to
the result of distorted
adapt to new experiences
cognitions
neurotransmitter that The field of psychology
causes contraction of concerned with the
skeletal muscles; lack of assessment, treatment,
Ach linked with and prevention of
Alzheimer's disease; maladaptive behavior.
1b
achievement test adaptation
ACTH (arenocorticotropic
Adolescence
hormone)
action potential adrenal glands
Actor-observer Effect afferent neuron
2a
a trait or inherited
test designed to
characteristic that has
determine a person's level
increased in a population
of knowledge in a given
because it solved a problem of
subject area
survival or reproduction
released by adrenal glands;
The period of extending
triggered by norepinephrine to
from the onset of puberty prolong the response to stress
to early adulthood (used in the sympathetic
nervous system)
endocrine glands located
an electrical current sent
above the kidney and secretes
down the axon of a neuron
epinephrine and
and is initiated by the rapid
norepinephrine, which
reversal of the polarization of
prepare the body for "fight or
the cell membrane
flight"
nerve cell that sends
The tendency to attribute the
messages to brain or
behavior of others to
spinal cord from other dispositional causes but to
parts of the body; also attribute one's own behavior
to situational causes.
called sensory neurons
2b
Ageism Albert Bandura
Aggression Albert Ellis
agonist Alfred Adler
Agoraphobia Alfred Binet
3a
pioneer in observational learning
(AKA social learning), stated that Prejudice against the
people profit from the
elderly and the resulting
mistakes/successes of others;
discrimination against
Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults
demonstrated 'appropriate' play them
with dolls, children mimicked play
pioneer in Rational-Emotive
Therapy (RET), focuses on
Any behavior intended to
altering client's patterns of
harm another person or
irrational thinking to reduce
thing.
maladaptive behavior and
emotions
neo-Freudian,
psychodynamic;
chemical that mimics or
Contributions: inferiority
facilitates the actions of a
complex, organ inferiority;
neurotransmitter
Studies: birth order influences
personality
pioneer in intelligence (IQ)
anxiety disorder characterized
tests, designed a test to
by marked fear and avoidance
identify slow learners in need
of being alone in a place from
of help-not applicable in the
which escape might be
U.S. because it was too
difficult or embarrassing
culture-bound (French)
3b
Algorithm amnesia
all-or-none principle amygdala
Altruism Anal Stage
Alzheimer's Disease Androgynous
4a
inability to remember Procedure for solving a
information (typically, all problem by implementing
events within a specific a set of rules over and
period), usually due to over again until the
physiological trauma solution is found.
part of the limbic system;
the law that the neuron
influences emotions such
either fires at 100% or not
as aggression, fear, and
at all
self-protective behaviors
Freud's second stage of personality
Behaviors that benefit other
development, from about age 2 to
people and for which there is
about age 3, during which children
learn to control the immediate no discernable extrinsic
gratification they obtain through
reward, recognition, or
defecation and to become responsive
appreciation.
to the demands of society.
Having both A chronic and progressive
stereotypically male and disorder of the brain that
stereotypically female is the most common cause
characteristics of degeneration dementia
4b
Anna Freud antagonist
Anna O. anterograde amnesia
Antisocial personality
Anorexia Nervosa
disorder
anorexia nervosa Anxiety
5a
child psychoanalysis;
chemical that opposes the
emphasized importance
actions of a
of the ego and its constant
neurotransmitter
struggle
Austrian-Jewish woman (real name:
loss of memory for events
Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with
hysteria, treated by Josef Breuer for severe
and experiences
cough, paralysis of the extremities on the
occurring from the time
right side of her body, and disturbances of
vision, hearing, and speech, as well as
of an amnesia-causing
hallucinations and loss of consciousness.
event forward Her treatment is regarded as marking the
beginning of psychoanalysis.
Personality disorder characterized
An eating disorder
by egocentricity, and behavior that
characterized by an obstinate
is irresponsible and that violates the
rights of other people, a lack of guilt and willful refusal to eat, a
feelings, an inability to understand distorted body image, and an
other people and a lack of fear of
intense fear of being fat
punishment.
a generalized feeling of fear eating disorder most common
and apprehension that may be in adolescent females
related to a particular characterized by weight less
situation or object and is often than 85% of normal, restricted
accompanied by increased eating, and unrealistic body
physiological arousal. image
5b