amygdala

structure in the limbic system involved in our experience of emotion and tying emotional meaning to our memories

psychosexual stage in which children experience pleasure in their bowel and bladder
movements

aligned with academic problem solving and computations

Jung’s theory focusing on the balance of opposing forces within one’s personality and the significance of the collective unconscious

faulty heuristic in which you fixate on a single aspect of a problem to find a solution

eating disorder characterized by an individual maintaining body weight that is well below average through starvation and/or excessive exercise

drug that blocks or impedes the normal activity of a given neurotransmitter

anterograde amnesia

loss of memory for events that occur after the brain trauma

pattern that exists in our collective unconscious across cultures and societies

method of research using past records or data sets to answer various research questions, or to search for interesting patterns or relationships

strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories and weaker emotional experiences form weaker memories

concept that is defined by a very specific set of characteristics

adjustment of a schema by adding information similar to what is already known