Psychologists
This psychologist is known for proposing a “Hierarchy of Needs,” suggesting that some needs take priority over others
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This is the retainment of a memory for 20 to 30 seconds.
What is Short Term Memory?
This feature in the eye contains rods and cones, which enable us to see colors
What is the Retina?
This hemisphere in the brain is involved with visuals & abstract thoughts
What is the Right Hemisphere?
Anything that doesn’t allow a person to function or adapt to the stresses of life on a day to day basis
What are Maladaptive Behaviors?
This well-known 20th century psychologist focused on four basic personality traits, such as extraversion vs introversion, sensation vs intuition, and thinking vs feeling
Who is Carl Jung?
This is the first stage of the development of language
What is Babbling?
When looking at a close-up object, one’s eyes may angle inwards towards each other as a result of this binocular depth cue
What is Convergence?
Helps process & receive long-term and spatial memory
What is the Hippocampus?
Occurs when a person seems to have 2+ distinct personalities within one body
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder?
“After receiving education from William Wundt, I joined the Cornell University faculty and founded structuralism”
Who is Edward Bradford Titchener?
Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it
What is Latent Learning?
This system functions to detect head motion and position relative to gravity and is primarily involved in the fine control of visual gaze, posture, spatial orientation, and navigation
What is the Vestibular System?
Coordinates bodily movements in strong relation with the cerebellum
What is the Motor Cortex?
These types of disorders can cause bodily illnesses and symptoms of something going on, but there won’t be any real physical explanation as to why it’s happening
What are Somatoform Disorders?
This behaviorist conducted the controversial Little Albert experiment, which caused a 9-month-old to fear a rat
Who is John B. Watson?
This problem solving when one persists in using strategies that worked in the past
What is a Mental Set?
The place theory of pitch suggests that our perception of sound is created when the frequency of a sound wave produces vibrations at varying parts of this area in the ear
What is the Basilar Membrane?
The critical language area in the posterior superior temporal lobe that is primarily involved in the comprehension
What is Wernicke's Area?
Drugs used to treat anxiety
What are Anxiolytics?
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water”
Who is Sigmund Freud?
In Piaget's theory, it is the stage in which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
What is the Preoperational Stage?
This theory suggests that the subjective experience of pain is modulated by large nerve fibers in the spinal cord, which is controlled by a variety of influences, including drugs, injury, emotions, the brain, etc
What is the Gate Control Theory of Pain?
The gland in the brain that releases melatonin, the hormone which plays an important role in establishing the body’s sleep-wake cycle
What is the Pineal Gland?
A type of therapy that pairs the client’s habit with an unpleasant stimulus so the client breaks the habit
What is Aversion Therapy?