psychologist
Developed psychoanalysis; considered to be "father of modern psychiatry"
Who is Sigmund Freud
This area of the brain acts as a command center, orchestrating the complex muscle movements necessary for articulating spoken words.
What is the Broca's area
This neurochemical is involved in the regulation of sleep, mood, attention, and learning. Lower levels of this are associated with depression.
What is serotonin
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This locates brain material with the most developed picture
What is MRI
Described process of classical conditioning after famous experiments with dogs
Who is Ivan Pavlov
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum
This neurochemical with high levels is associated with schizophrenia. With low levels is associated with Parkinson disease.
What is Dopamine
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
This detects electrical activity of brain waves
What is EEG
Humanistic psychologist known for his "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of "self-actualization"
Who is Abraham Maslow
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.
What is the limbic system?
Low levels of this neurochemical are associated with anxiety.
What is Gaba
The tendency of participants to act differently from normal in a research study because they know they are being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
This creates X-Rays that make a slice through an image, revealing brain damage.
What is CAT/CT
Conducted longitudinal studies on temperament (infancy to adolescence)
Who is Jerome Kagan
This part of the brain includes the upper part of the spinal cord, the brain stem, and a wrinkled ball of tissue called the cerebellum.
What is the hindbrain
A hormone and neuroransmitter that plays an important role in the experience of love and social bonding.
What is Oxytocin
A research finding that appears to be universally true across cultures, as opposed to a finding that is only valid within a given culture.
What is an etic?
This shows the activity of the brain by following radioactive glucose where it goes when the brain preforms a task.
What is PET scan
offered famous critique of trait theory and its claims
Who is Walter Mischel
This area of the brain is involved in sensory integration and contains the secondary taste cortex, in which the reward value of taste is represented.
What is orbitofrontal cortex
To little is associated with depression. Inhabits the firing of neurons in the central nervous system, but it simultaneously excites the heart muscle, intestines and urogenital tract.
What is Norepinephrine
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated.
What is quasi experimental?
This is a combination of PET scan and MRI, this shows brain activity
What is FMRI