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| 6467216867 | Psychology | Study of the mind, mental processes and behaviour |  | 0 |
| 6467216868 | 4 Main Fields of Psychology | Behaviourism, humanism, psychoanalysis, cognitive | 1 | |
| 6467216869 | Behavioural Psychology | Conducting experiments and gathering data to understand observable behaviours and phenomena |  | 2 |
| 6467216870 | Classical Conditioning | Type of learning to associate stimuli and anticipate events, ex. Pavlov's dogs |  | 3 |
| 6467216871 | Operant Conditioning | Type of learning that uses rewards and punishments, ex. B.F. Skinner's rats |  | 4 |
| 6467216872 | Psychoanalysis | Analyzing our inner thoughts and feelings and unlocking the unconscious mind, ex. Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung |  | 5 |
| 6467216873 | Conscious Mind | Thoughts we are aware of, ex. feelings, present perceptions, memories |  | 6 |
| 6467216874 | Unconscious Mind | Thoughts we are unaware of, ex. drives, instincts, trauma |  | 7 |
| 6467216875 | Preconscious Mind | Thoughts and memories that aren't immediately conscious but can be brought to mind |  | 8 |
| 6467216876 | Ego | Conscious- "the referee", rational thinking |  | 9 |
| 6467216877 | Id | Unconscious- instincts, primitive feelings |  | 10 |
| 6467216878 | Superego | Part conscious, mostly unconscious- moral thoughts | | 11 |
| 6467216879 | Carl Jung | Student of Freud who created concept of "collective unconscious" and archetypes |  | 12 |
| 6467216880 | Abraham Maslow | Humanistic psychologist known for his "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of "self-actualization", being a part of helping yourself |  | 13 |
| 6467216881 | Humanism | Belief that the patient should be involved in recovery. Based on theory that everyone has potential to be a good person and contribute to society. |  | 14 |
| 6467216882 | Viktor Frankl | Developed logotherapy after experiencing the holocaust to help patients find meaning/purpose in life without medical help. |  | 15 |
| 6467216883 | Cognitive Psychology | Examines the mental processes in the brain to determine how we think, learn, perceive and remember. |  | 16 |
| 6467216884 | Albert Bandura | Bobo doll experiment. Children learn by imitation and aggression is learnt and should be stopped before adulthood. |  | 17 |
| 6467216885 | Defence Mechanisms | A way for the ego to protect the conscious mind from experiencing unpleasant feelings or thoughts |  | 18 |
| 6467216886 | Elizabeth Loftus | Lost in mall experiment. False memories: repressed memories created through power of suggestion. |  | 19 |
| 6467216887 | Rationalization | Excuse we invent to explain a failure, loss, error or bad behaviour |  | 20 |
| 6467216888 | Displacement | When we lash out at someone not involved because we have suppressed anger or frustration from an earlier situation. |  | 21 |
| 6467216889 | Projection | When we see negative traits and feelings in other people that we see in ourselves but cannot openly admit |  | 22 |
| 6467216890 | Denial | When reality is too unpleasant so we ignore it. |  | 23 |
| 6467216891 | Repression | When we push unpleasant urges or thoughts out of our conscious mind. |  | 24 |
| 6467216892 | Regression | When problems seem too big to handle, we may go back to behaviour from earlier in life like sulking or having tantrums. |  | 25 |
| 6467216893 | Reaction Formation | Changing an unacceptable feeling or impulse into its opposite. |  | 26 |
| 6467216894 | Sublimation | Changing an unacceptable feeling or thought into one that's socially acceptable. |  | 27 |
| 6467216895 | Nature vs Nurture | A dual concept- whether behaviour is caused by genetic inheritance or environmental influences/how you were raised, one of the oldest issues debated by psychologists. |  | 28 |
| 6467216896 | Teenage Brain | The amygdala and prefrontal cortex go through dramatic change which affect risk taking, decision making, emotions, sleep habits, impulse, sex |  | 29 |
| 6467216897 | Sensation | Process that activates our sense receptors, we transmit signals from these senses to our brain |  | 30 |
| 6467216898 | Perception | Process that allows us to select, organize and interpret sensory signals in the brain 1)Selecting: name in a noisy environment 2)Organizing: who the voice belongs to 3)Interpreting: that person wants my attention |  | 31 |
| 6467216899 | Illusions | We group patterns and shapes in order to recognize them |  | 32 |
| 6467216900 | Autism | A neurodevelopment disorder that occurs on a spectrum and affects one's social communication, 1 in 68, more prevalent in boys |  | 33 |
| 6467216901 | Stigma | Preconceived negative opinion or thought on someone or something, makes it difficult for people to talk about it or get help | 34 | |
| 6467216902 | Stereotype | A generalization of a group of people, commonly held public belief | 35 | |
| 6467216903 | Prejudice | A prejudgement or assumption of something/someone without knowledge | 36 | |
| 6467216904 | Discrimination | Taking negative action on your prejudice to belittle someone |  | 37 |
| 6467216905 | Structural Discrimination | When social environments/situations expose people to negative things |  | 38 |
| 6467216906 | Internalized Discrimination | What you grew up thinking about certain groups or people |  | 39 |
| 6467216907 | Mood Disorders | Caused by chemical imbalances, consistent change in mood, ex. Major Depressive Disorder |  | 40 |
| 6467216908 | Bipolar Disorder | Cycle of going through depressed, normal and mania moods |  | 41 |
| 6467216909 | Psychosis | Active state of experiencing hallucinations, delusions, can be organic (tumour) or chemically induced (drugs) or both |  | 42 |
| 6467216910 | Schizophrenia | Mental disturbance that shuts down parts of brain, causes delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, catatonic behaviour | 43 | |
| 6467216911 | PTSD | Constantly experiencing/imagining a traumatic event that previously happened, extreme anxiety in that situation, stems from amygdala |  | 44 |
| 6467216912 | Phobias | Significant and persistent fear, causes extreme anxiety and affects daily life |  | 45 |
| 6467216913 | Personality Disorders | Pattern of behaviour that's not the social norm causing long term difficulties ex. Antisocial Personality Disorder |  | 46 |
| 6467216914 | Eating Disorders | Obsession with food, weight or appearance, ex. Anorexia, Bulimia |  | 47 |
| 6467216915 | Body Dysmorphic Disorder | Indulgence in plastic surgery, ex. Michael Jackson |  | 48 |
| 6467216916 | Ethical Guidelines in Psychology | 1) Responsible Caring 2) Integrity of Relationships 3) Responsibility to Society 4) Respect for the Dignity of Persons | 49 |
