Psychological Problems Vocab

Unipolar depression

Twin studies

Monozygotic

Dizygotic

Genetic predisposition

Diathesis-stress model

Serotonin

Deterministic

Free will

Cognitive theory

Negative triad

Magnification

Nature

Nurture

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

Placebo

Relapse

Addiction

Learning theory

Classical conditioning

Operant conditioning

Social learning theory

Reinforcement

Functional analysis

Skills training

Detoxification

Longitudinal study

Likert-type scale

Hemisphere

Cerebrum

Cortex

Spinal cord

Brainstem

Reflexes

Frontal lobe

Temporal lobe

Parietal lobe

Occipital lobe

Lateralisation of function

Asymmetrical

Corpus callosum

Broca's area

Spatial awareness

Central nervous system (CNS)

Peripheral nervous system (PNS)

Neurotransmitters

Neuron

Synaptic transmission

Synapse

Axon

Terminal button

Vesicles

Receptors

Neurological damage

Visual agnosia

Prosopagnosia

Pre-frontal cortex

Agnosia

Fusiform face area (FFA)

White matter

Neuroscience

Post-mortem

EEG (electroencephalograph)

MRI (magnetic resonance imagine)

PET (positron emission tomography)