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A split-brained patient is so named because this part of their brain has been severed in order to limit the severity of seizures in conditions like epilepsy.
What is the corpus callosum?
The psychologist who famously interpreted the manifest and latent content of dreams.
Who is Freud?
The acquisition of knowledge, skill, attitudes or understanding as a result of experience.
What is learning?
I'm very scared of spiders, and now that I saw a scorpion, I will never go outside again. That's probably because of this.
What is stimulus generalization?
When you just wake up or you are about to fall asleep and you feel like you cannot move.
What is sleep paralysis?
It is not surprising that MDMA (ecstasy) can trigger depression during withdrawal because the drug produces significant changes in the distribution of this hormone.
What is serotonin?
The subject of an unethical experiment who was conditioned to fear rats.
Who is Little Albert?
Any physical event that affects a sensory cell so an individual can detect the event.
What is a stimulus?
Pavlov placed meat powder in the mouths of dogs, and they began to salivate. The food acted as this.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
Focus on my voice, close your eyes, and listen to my suggestions. Extend your arm. You are holding a heavy ball, and now you feel that your arm is starting to fall. You are participating in this test.
What is the Stanford hypnotic susceptibility test?
Transitions between sleep stages are triggered by this in the hypothalamus. If you don't have enough of this, you likely will develop narcolepsy.
What is hypocretin?
A behaviorist who made puzzle boxes for cats and children. By the way, he does not believe in free will.
Who is BF Skinner?
Getting used to something over time, such as uncomfortable glasses.
What is habituation?
Thorndike believed that the learning process is this.
What is gradual?
You snore loudly and you occasionally gasp for air when you wake up. Your symptoms are consistent with this sleeping condition.
What is sleep apnea?
An example of this is morphine because it acts on neurons in the brainstem, enabling them to block pain signals coming from the body.
What is an analgesic?
Don't get aggressive with me! His research is most closely associated with social learning.
Who is Albert Bandura?
When one individual imitates another, this has occurred.
What is modeling?
The return of a previously extinguished conditioned response in response to the conditioned stimulus after a period of rest.
What is spontaneous recovery?
Carlyle Smith studied the sleep of students who were on summer vacation and those who had just studied for exam. He reported a large increase in this in those who had just studied for exams.
What is rapid eye movements (REM)?
Psychoactive drugs classified as this aid stimulation of receptor sites in the brain, while those classified as that block stimulation of receptor sites in the brain. (2 parts)
What are agonists and antagonists?
An neuroanatomist who had a sudden stroke one morning and studied it. She also worked with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in part because she was concerned with her schizophrenic brother.
Who is Jill Bolte Taylor?
Escape conditioning is a form of this in which the subject learns to perform a response to remove an aversive stimulus.
What is negative reinforcement?
This country asked for a book about the idea of delayed gratification and the marshmallow test.
What is South Korea?
REM sleep seems to be a function of this part of the brain.
What is the pons?