vocab
psychology
study of behavior and mental processes
jean piaget
developed cognitive development in children
cerebellum
regulates muscular movement
cognitive
explains mental processes and how they influence behavior
glutamate
helps with memory, cognitions, and mood regualtion
placebo
substance created to cause a perosn to think they're receiving a drug when they are not
sigmund freud
founder of psychoanalysis
thalamus
sleep, memory, learning
behaviorism
GABA
calms you down
independent variable
variable that is beng manipulated
paul broca
focused on broca's area that impacts the speech in the left side of the brain
eating, temperature, drinking
evolutionary
serotonin
regualtes mood, digestion, sleep, and sexual desire
threshold
amount of stimualtion that triggers a response
harry harlow
studied monkies and maternal seperation
amygdala
involves emotions
psychodynamic
how childhood events impact our development
oxytocin
helsp with child birth
plasticity
the brains capacity for modification
michael gazzaniga
studied split brain patients and their functions
medulla
controls heart rate, breathing
humanistic
self actualization, esteem, safety, physiological, belonging
adrenaline
makes the heart beat faster