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He was the humanistic psychologist who says you have to get through a series of needs in order to achieve self-actualization.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This theory says that psychological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the needs.
What is the Drive-Reduction theory?
In an experiment where we are testing the effect of music on productivity and have two groups (one listening to music and one not) and then measure everyone's productivity, one term would be assigned to the measure of productivity across both groups and one term would be the manipulated variable (whether there is music or not).
What is the dependent and independent variable? (independent is manipulated/ dependent measured)
This is the group being experimented on or acted on by the independent variable.
What is the experimental group.
This is the neurotransmitter is important for psychological arousal, mood changes, sleep and learning. If too low in synaptic spaces can cause depression; SSRI's try to increase the amount of this neurotransmitter available in synaptic spaces.
What is seratonin?
He was the father of Classical Conditioning who won a Nobel Prize for his work on the digestive system of dogs. He discovered that physiological reactions like salivating could be conditioned.
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
Schachter's theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal/ emotion.
What is the Two- Factor (or Schacter-Singer) Theory?
The first side of the brain is in charge of language and logic and the second side is in charge of creative and spatial.
What do the right hemisphere and left hemisphere do? (right is creative/ spatial and left is language/ logic)
This is the way in which you assign members of the random sample to the control or experimental group.
What is random assignment.
This inhibitory neurotransmitter controls posture and movement. If too high can cause hallucinations and perhaps Schizophrenia. Low amounts are associated with Parkinson's Disease.
What is dopamine?
He was the founder of behaviorism who said “Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents..."
Who was John Watson?
This theory of Bandura that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating those around us.
What is the Social-Learning Theory?
These are the two parts of the hypothalamus-- one stimulates hunger and one suppresses hunger.
What are the lateral and ventromedial hypothalamus? (lateral stimulates/ ventromedial suppresses)
This is a statement of procedures used to define research variables. For example: in this experiment "not a lot of sleep" will be defined as less than 6 hours a night.
What is an operational definition.
This excitory neurotransmitter is related to movement of all muscles as well as arousal, attention, anger, aggression, sexuality and thirst. Low levels are associated with memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.
What is Acetylcholine?
He was the disciple of Freud who extended Freud's theories and believed in a collective as well as a personal unconscious that is aware of ancient archetypes we inherit from our ancestors.
Who is Carl Jung?
The theory of pain that was updated by the Neuromatrix theory. It says that the spinal cord contains a neurological "gate" that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass through to the brain.
What is the Gate-Control Theory?
These are the two centers for language in the brain- one makes words and one comprehends words.
What are Broca's area and Wernicke's area? (Broca's makes words and Wernicke's comprehends words)
What is a population.
This neurotransmitter inhibits central nervous system and regulates anxiety. It is associated with Huntington's disease and anxiety disorders.
What is GABA (Gama-aminobutyric Acid)?
He believed there are an infinite number of sentences in a language and that humans have an inborn capacity for language that is hardwired but must be triggered by our environment (Cognitive Model).
Who is Noam Chomsky?
This contemporary theory says that opposing retinal processes enable color vision (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black).
What is the Opponent-Process Theory?
These are the two types of neurons (scientific terminology)-- one sends messages TO the CNS and one sends messages AWAY from the CNS.
What are efferent and afferent (efferent is motor-- brain to body and afferent is sensory-- body to brain)
These are uncontrolled variables that affect the control and experimental group in an experiment and therefore affect your results.
What are confounding variables.
This is a neurotransmitter that is released during fight-or-flight by our autonomic nervous system and helps in pain control. It is also involved in addictions.
What are endorphins?