The Brain
Located at the rear of the brain stem and functions sensory input, coordinating movement output and balance, and enabling nonverbal learning and memory.
What is Cerebellum?
Described process of classical conditioning after famous experiments with dogs
What is Ivan Pavlov?
Drugs that excite neural activity and speed up body functions.
What is Stimulants?
The scientific study of observable behavior, and it's explanation by principles of learning.
What is Behavioral Psychology?
An observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles
What is Case Study?
Limbic system, learning and memory matcher.
Whats is Hippocampus?
Developed psychoanalysis; considered to be "father of modern psychiatry"
What is Sigmund Freud?
Psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input.
What is Hallucinogens?
The scientific study of the links between biological (genetic, neural, hormonal) and psychological processes.
What is Biological Psychology?
A technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them
What is Survey?
A neural structure lying below the thalamus, it directs several maintenance activities.
What is hypothalmus?
His idea, that the genetic composition of a species can be altered through natural selection, has had a lasting impact on psychology through the evolutionary perspective
What is Charles Darwin?
When a drug's effect decreases after a person is repeatedly exposed to a psychoactive drug
What is Tolerance?
The scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation
What is Naturalistic Observation?
The portion of the cerebral cortex lying roughyl above the ears; includes the auditory areas, each of which revieves aditory info primarily from the opposite end.
What is Temporal Lobe?
Neo-Freudian; introduced concept of "inferiority complex" and stressed the importance of birth order
What is Alfred Adler?
Drugs that reduce neural activity and slow body functions.
What is Depressants?
The study of the evolution of behavior and mind, using principles of natural selection.
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
What is Validity?
Lima bean sized neural clusters in the limbic system, linked to emotion. Includes rage and fear.
What is Amygdala?
Known for his theory of cognitive development in children
What is Jean Piget?
The major active ingredient in marijuana; triggers a variety of effects, including mild hallucinations.
What is THC?
A branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior, and uses that information to treat people with psychological disorders.
What is Psychodynamic Psychology?
the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting.
What is Reliability?