Psych 101 Worksheet

What is the structure in the base of the temporal lobe that is involved in the discrimination of objects?
One of the most common psychological disorders of childhood in which individuals show one or more of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
Eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of consuming large amounts of food and the person feels a lack of control.
The brain and the spinal cord.
Learning through association and was discovered by Pavlov, a Russian physiologist. In simple terms two stimuli are linked together to produce a new learned response in a person or animal.
Responses from the environment that decrease the likelihood of a behavior being repeated. Punishment weakens behavior.
strengthens a behavior by providing a consequence an individual finds rewarding.
The variable the experimenter manipulates (i.e. changes) – assumed to have a direct effect on the dependent variable.
Talk therapy, is a way to help people with a broad variety of mental illnesses and emotional difficulties.
Anything that can change.
Feeling or affect that can involve physiological arousal (such as fast hear beat)
The Freudian structure of personality that deals with the demands of reality.
Mood disorder in which the individual suffers from depression an unrelenting lack of pleasure in life.
Eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation.
The display of little or no emotions.
a carefully regulated procedure in which the researcher manipulates one or more variable that are believed to influence some other variable.
An altered state of consciousness or a psychological state of altered attention and expectation in which the individual is unusually receptive to suggestions.
the retetion of information or experience over time as the result of three key processes encoding, storage and retrieval
A deprivation that energizes the drive to eliminate or reduce the deprivation
An individual's environmental and social experiences.
An individual's biological inheritance, especially his or her genes.
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
A return to former unhealthy patterns.
A state of consciousness that involves a low low level of conscious.
The inability to sleep