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Term | Definition |
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Experimental Psychologist | Psychologist who experiment and try to advance the body of knowledge of the science of Psychology |
Clinical or counseling psychologist | The largest area of specialization in Psychology. The area where about one half of all Psychologist work. |
Unconscious desires | Desires that Freud said controlled our conscious behavior. |
Behaviorism | A area of Psychology that is based on observable, measurable behavior. B.F. Skinner was a leader in this field. |
Naturalistic observation | Watching behavior in real life natural setting with laboratory controls. |
Case studies | A study based on intensive analysis of a single or a few individuals. |
Condition response | A response to a stimulus(such as ringing a bell) that a dog can be conditioned to do. |
Dendrites | Short fibers which extend from a neuron that allows it to receive messages from other nerve cells. |
Axon | The portion of a neuron that carries messages to another neuron or a muscle. |
Myelin sheath | The fatty covering that surrounds and insulates a axon. |
Cell membrane | The outer layer of a neuron that all fluids or organisms must pass through to enter the cell. |
neurotransmitters | Chemicals that are released by the synaptic vesicles travel across the synaptic space to another neuron. |
Dopamine | A neurotransmitter that is know to be involved in Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia. |
Pupil | The part of the eye that controls the amount of light that enters the eye. |
Lens | The part of the eye that to allow adjustment to see objects at different distances. |
Circadian rhythm | Our natural sleeping-waking cycle. |
Stage 1 sleep | The stage of sleep where the pulse slows, the muscles begin to relax and there are low-amplitude brain waves. |
Stage 2 sleep | The stage of sleep when sleep spindles begin to appear. |
Stage 4 sleep | The stage of sleep when very slow delta waves are common. |
REM | Rapid Eye Movement |
Psychoactive drugs | Any chemical substances that change moods and perceptions. |
Alcohol | The most frequently used drug in Western society |
Depressant | drugs like alcohol, barbiturates and opiates the depress the central nervous system. |
Rehearsal | A common way of transferring information from short to long term memory. |
Episodic memory | Memories of the events of your live |
semantic memory | the part of your memory that is most like an encyclopedia or a dictionary |
Emotional memory | your learned emotional responses to various situations. Such as fear of spiders. |
Eidetic memory | The ability to remember as if you are looking at a photograph |
Intelligence test | First designed by Alfred Binet to help identify low performing students |
Emotion | the experience of feeling |
Homeostasis | the state of balance for the bodies systems. |
The primary drives | Thirst, hunger, and sex |
Cohort | Any of a group of people that are born in the same specific time period. |
Longitudinal study | A type of study that requires a long time to gather useable data |
Conforming to existing social order | Societies way of judging mental health. |
Early asylums | Places much like prisons where the insane could be define |
Depression | The most common mood disorder. When some feels extremely low and listless. |
Mania | A mood disorder where someone is extremely energetic. The opposite of depression. |
Panic disorder | A feeling of intense,paralyzing fear of an object or person when there is no real danger. |
Dissociative identity disorder | A feeling of being separated in different personality |
Psychoanalysis | A theory of treatment for the mental ill developed by Freud |
Oral,anal,phallic,latency, genital | Freud's psychosexual stages. |
Persona | A term developed by Jung that describes the only part of our personality that we show to the out side world. |
Inferiority | According to Adler the driving force in shaping our personality. |