Parts of the Brain
Largest Part of the Brain; Divided into four primary regions or lobes
Cerebrum
Intense and irrational fear of a specific object or situation
Phobia
Experimented with Dogs and Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
IQ formula
Variable that is being measured
Dependent Variable
Neural Clusters linked to emotion
Amygdala
Feeling of tension and unease continuously for six months or longer
General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Used toy clowns to experiment with modeling
Albert Bandura
Condition in which patients fail to develop new memories
Anterograde Amnesia
Variable being changed
Independent Variable
Involved in the production of spoken language
Broca's Area
Physical symptoms affect the body but have no apparent physical causes
Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD)
Conducted Baby Albert Experiments
John Watson
Tendency to remember the names or info at the beginning or end of a list
Serial-Position Effect
Measures how strong a relationship between two variables is
Correlation Coefficient
Helps process memories for storage
Hippocampus
Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD)
Assessed Mental and Chronological Age
Alfred Binet
The wording or way a question is posed
Framing
The likely probability that chance was not responsible for the results of a study
Statistical Significance
Connects Left and Right Hemispheres of the Brain
Corpus Callosum
Cycles of binge-eating and purging food
Bulimia Nervosa
Identified the 'Zone of Proximal Development'
Lev Vygotsky
Methodical, logical approach that guarantees solving a particular problem
Algorithm
Selecting random people to be part of a study or experiment