Neuroscience
This is the narrow gap that separates the presynaptic neuron from the postsynaptic cell, a gap into which neurotransmitters are released from the axon terminal.
What is synaptic cleft?
Studied the behavior of dogs using food and a bell.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Therapy that helps improve speech clarity, fluency, or language.
What is Speech Therapy
This term describes the process by which children learn language by hearing it used around them.
What is language acquisition?
Main field of study which was used to explain, understand, and make inferences about human behavior in ancient times (before the development of modern brain and behavioral sciences)
Philosophy
Damage to this brain region results in expressive aphasia, where speech production is impaired but comprehension is relatively preserved.
What is Broca’s area?
Often called the “father of American psychology,” he focused on how mental processes help people adapt to their environment.
Who is William James?
This disorder that makes it difficult for a person to safely swallow food or liquids
What is Dysphasia
This psychologist is famous for his stages of cognitive development, including sensorimotor and concrete operational.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Organ which was first used to explain human behavior, especially by Aristotle, before the brain was found to be the center of our mental capacities
Heart
This is a neurological disorder that makes it difficult or impossible to recognize known or new faces.
What is Prosopagnosia aka face blindness?
This social psychology idea explains why people sometimes go with a terrible group decision because no one wants to “ruin the vibe.”
What is groupthink?
What is the smallest unit of sound in a language?
What is a Phoneme
This researcher demonstrated the importance of contact comfort through studies with infant monkeys
Who is Harlow?
Ancient pseudoscience which explained human behavior by skull anatomy
Phrenology
These two anatomical terms describe the raised ridges and the shallow grooves on the surface of the brain.
What are a gyrus and a sulcus?
A mental health condition characterized by a long-term pattern of violating the rights of others, with symptoms including a consistent disregard for social norms, impulsivity, aggression, irritability, and a lack of remorse or empathy
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASD)?
This test uses tones played through headphones to determine the softest sounds a person can hear at each freuency
What is pure-tone audiometry
This stage of Erikson’s theory describes toddlers learning independence through activities such as dressing themselves.
What is autonomy vs. shame and doubt?
German psychiatrist who invented the EEG in efforts to discover telepathy
Hans Berger
Loss of dopamine-producing neurons in this midbrain structure causes Parkinson’s disease.
What is the substantia nigra?
Repeated exposure to uncontrollable negative events can result in deficits in motivation, learning, and emotional regulation, modeling aspects of depression.
What is learned helplessness?
This type of disorder is characterized by short, effortful speech and often have strong comprehension but are unable to produce speech. (May occur after a stroke or TBI.)
What is Broca's Aphasia
This term refers to a child’s understanding that other people have their own thoughts, feelings, and perspectives.
What is theory of mind?
Considered the first mental disorder attributable to women; falsely described by early thinkers as "characteristically feminine" and wrongly attributed to the uterus and womb
Hysteria