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| The school of psychology founded on the premise that behavior is measurable and can be changed through the application of various behavioral principles. |
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| Being attracted to or aroused by members of both genders. See Sexual Orientation. |
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| As a way to avoid the placebo effect in research, this type of study is designed without the subject's knowledge of the anticipated results and sometimes even the nature of the study. The subjects are said to be "blind" to the expected results. |
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| Ab aphasia associated with damage to the Broca's area of the brain, demonstrated by the impairment in producing understandable speech. |
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| Changes in thoughts, emotions, and behavior as a result of extended job stress and unrewarded repetition of duties. Burnout is seen as extreme dissatisfaction, pessimism, lowered job satisfaction, and a desire to quit. |
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| The main part of a neuron where the information is processed. |
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| A young child's tendency to focus only on his or her own perspective of a specific object and a failure to understand that others may see things differently. |
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| A generic term for the idea that chemical in the brain are either too scarce or too abundant resulting in s mental disorder such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder |
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| A behavioral technique of pairing a naturally occurring stimulus and response chain with a different stimulus in order to produce a response which is not naturally occurring. |
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| A humanistic therapy based on Carl Roger's beliefs that an individual has an unlimited capacity for psychological growth and will continue to grow unless barriers are placed int he way |
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| Power derived through the ability to punish. |
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| The process of receiving, processing, storing, and using information |
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| Cognitive Behavioral Therapy |
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| Treatment involving the combination of behaviorism (based on the theories of learning) and cognitive therapy (based on the theory that our cognition or thoughts control a large portion of our behavior.) |
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| The realization of contradictions in ones's own attitudes and behaviors. |
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| The physical act resulting from an obsession. Typically a compulsive act is done in an attempt to alleviate the discomfort created by an obsession. |
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| The response in a stimulus-response chain that is not naturally occurring, but rather has been learned through its pairing with a naturally occurring chain. |
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| The stimulus in a stimulus-response chain that is not naturally occurring, but rather has been learned through its pairing with a naturally occurring chain |
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| The process of learning new behaviors or responses as a result of their consequences |
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| Changing your attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, or behaviors in order to be more consistent with others. |
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| Awareness of yourself and the world around you. |
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| The understanding , typically achieved in later childhood, that matter remains the same even when the shape changes (i.e. a pounds of clay is still a pound of clay whether it is rolled into a ball or pounded flat) |
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| The physiological changes in the brain associated with memory storage |
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| The failure to store information in the memory |
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| The theory that information learned in a particular situation or place is better remembered when in that same situation or place |
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| The application of reinforcement every time a specific behavior occurs |
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| The group of subjects in an experiment that does not receive the independent variable |
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| Statistical representation of a relationship between two or more variables which does not determine cause and effect |
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| A time frame deemed highly important in developing in a healthy manner, can be physically, emotionally, behaviorally, or cognitively |
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| The physiological and psychological response to the belief that there are too many people in a specified area |
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| The treatment approach based on the theory that our cognition or thoughts control a large portion of our behaviors and emotions. Therefore, changing the way we think can result in positive changes in the way we act and feel. |
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