Researchers
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Potpourri
100

This researcher spent their time training dogs to expect the sound of a doorbell always preceded delivery of food.

Ivan Pavlov

100

This is a theory in which the simple association or co-occurrence of ideas or sensations as the primary basis of meaning, thought, or learning.

Associationism

100

_____________ is the process whereby organisms learn to make or to refrain from making certain responses to obtain or avoid certain outcomes.

Operant Conditioning

100

This is the general idea of what Psychology is.

Is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.

200

This researcher believed in dualism, the idea that the mind and body exist as a separate entity; and compared reactions towards stimulus to hydraulics and switches.

Rene Descartes

200

This is a behavior that is learned by connecting a neutral stimulus with a positive one.

Classical Conditioning

200

By the middle of the 20th century, ___________ was the most famous psychologist in the world.

B. F. Skinner

200

Who said, “I think, therefore I am”?

Rene Descartes

300

This researcher believed that children were born with a blank slate.

John Locke

300

This is the tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli.

Generalization 

300

______ is the theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that some mental conditions are best treated by altering behavior patterns.

Behaviorism

300

This person had a scandalous affair with Rosalie Rayner.

John Watson

400

This research experimented by putting rats in a maze to see if they could find their through. Later, they blinded, deafened, and removed whiskers of the rats to see if there were changes. There was not.

John Watson

400

This is a psychological concept that delves into how our environmental factors influence our state of mind.

Radical Behaviorism

400

_______ is part of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

Central Nervous System

400

This area of the brain is important for learning new facts and forming new memories of events

Occipital Lobe

500

This researcher invented an automated learning apparatus called the “Skinner Box”.

B. F. Skinner

500

This is the study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character.

Phrenology

500

________ is part of the nervous system that transmits signals from sensory receptors to the central nervous system and carries commands from the CNS to muscles.

Peripheral Nervous System

500

This is a branch of psychology that deals with the relationship between brain function and behavior, usually by examining the functioning of patients who have specific types of brain damage.

Neuropsychology

600

This researcher proposed that links created during learning and memory formation are not just conceptual connections but actual, physical properties of brains.

William James

600

This is the weight between a sending and receiving node increases if the two nodes are active at the same time.

Hebbian Learning

600

These are the four lobes of the brain.

Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital

600

This is the method of structural neuroimaging based on recording changed in magnetic fields.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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