Many addictive drugs, including cocaine and nicotine, increase levels of this in the brain.
What is dopamine?
100
Area on the left temporal lobe that, when damaged, disrupts the ability to understand written or spoken language.
What is Wernicke's area?
100
An early school of psychology that emphasized studying the purpose of behavior. Heavily influenced by Darwin.
What is Functionalism?
100
First important American Psychologist. Brought Psych to USA.
Who is William James?
100
A tentative statement about the relationship between two variables.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Hearing takes place in this lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
200
The perspective in Psychology which focusses on the motivation of people to grow holistically.
What is humanistic psychology?
200
Thought that behavior was motivated by UNCONSCIOUS conflicts which are almost always aggressive or sexual in nature.
Who is Freud?
200
Factors that can change in ways that can be observed, measured, and verified.
What are variables?
300
Part of the limbic system that is involved in emotional responses and memories?
What is the amygdala?
300
This lobe is located at the back of the brain.
What is the occipital lobe?
300
First woman president of APA. Should have received doctorate but did not.
Who is Calkins?
300
Conditioned dogs -- classical conditioning.
Who is Evan Pavlov?
300
Two types of research methods.
What are descriptive and experimental methods?
400
This person studied split brain patients.
Who is Roger Sperry?
400
One way to observe hemispheric dominance (discussed in class).
What is observing beathing out of your nose?
400
Founded the first research lab in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
400
Taught pigeons to turn around for a reward/food. Operant conditioning.
Who is Skinner?
400
Four goals of Psychology
What is describe, explain, predict, and control behavior?
500
Karen is listening to Beethoven's Third Symphony (she is right handed, by the way). This part of her brain will show the greatest amount of activity on her PET scan.
What is the right hemisphere?
500
Franz Gall could no longer do his job -- initiate, plan and execute -- because of an injury to this part of his brain.
What is the frontal lobe? What are the frontal lobes?
500
Descartes idea that mind and body are separate.
What is interactive dualism?
500
Conducted the Bobo doll experiment?
Who is Watson?
500
This type of study shows how closely two factors are related.