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What are Id, Ego, and Superego
The three concepts of Freud's personality structure.
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What is depression?
_______ is the common cold of psychological disorders.
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What is arandom sample?
A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion
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what is psychopathology
both a genetic predisposition and a appropriate environmental trigger are required for a mental disorder to develop
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What is generalization?
A cat hides under the bed when it hears rain and does the same when it hears the shower.
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Who is Abraham Maslow?
This humanistic psychologist introduced the idea of the self-actualizing person.
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What is a cause of GAD and panic disorders?
Disrupted function of the amygdala
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What are mode, median, and mean?
These are the three measures of central tendency.
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What is temperament?
This is a concept describing a person's emotional excitability.
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What is spontaneous recovery?
The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.
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What is the Oedipus Complex?
A boy lusting for his mother, and having a "rivalry" with his father.
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What is the Medical Model?
The concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured
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What are humanistic psychologists?
Psychologists who emphasized the importance of meeting our needs for love, acceptance and of current environmental influence on our potential.
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What is heritability?
The extent to which variation among individuals can be attributed to genes.
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What is a conditioned response?
In classical conditioning, the learned response to previously neutral (now conditioned) stimulus.
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What is Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Carl Jung?
Three major Neo Freudians
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what is PTSD?
an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, and anxiety that are trigged after traumatic experiences
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What are Evolved Psychological Mechanisms (EPM)?
Psychological adaptions that are responsible for the particular set of behaviors that humans or animals have in response to various evolutionary circumstances.
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Who is Skinner?
Scientist known for his controversial work involving operant conditioning.
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What is the Humanistic Approach?
This approach focused on our inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment
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What are Paranoid, Disorganized, Catatonic, Undifferentiated, and Residual?
These are the five subtopics of Schizophrenia.
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What is "hindsight bias"?
Another name for the "I knew it all along" phenomenon.
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What is a variable interval?
Alex randomly tries to condition his dog to bark to a certain song at random times.Which kind of conditioning schedule does this represent?
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