This nervous system structure carries neurotransmitters throughout the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
100
This method of study can be used to determine cause and effect between variables.
What is an experiment?
100
This psychologist is best known for being the founder of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
This emotional theory claims that one's physiological reaction to a stimulus comes before cognitive recognition of an emotion.
What is the James-Lange theory of emotion?
100
This system is primarily responsible for well-learned material and cognitive shortcuts.
What is the heuristic system?
200
This portion of the nervous system is responsible for arousing involuntary organs.
What is autonomic nervous system (the sympathetic nervous system)?
200
This early, famous psychological experiment by Phillip Zimbardo concluded that individuals acquire traits they believe they are supposed to when assigned authoritative roles.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
200
This psychologist determined that in order to reach one's final goals of becoming one's ideal self, one must fulfill a hierarchy of smaller goals, first.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
200
This emotional theory states that physiological response to a stimulus and cognitive recognition of the emotion must occur at the same time.
What is the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion?
200
A phenomenon that occurs when one is not attending to a stimulus, and misses changes in the environment.
What is change blindness?
300
This brain structure is responsible for extreme emotion, such as fear and anger.
What is the amygdala?
300
This phenomenon can make the results of psychological experiments seem obvious or logical, and causes problems for psychological research.
What is the hindsight bias?
300
This psychologist is best known for creating a conformity experiment in which it was concluded that people readily conform to others, even if they know those others are wrong.
Who is Solomon Asch?
300
These are considered the universal emotions, in that they are expressed the same way regardless of culture, age, or race.
What are anger, disgust, surprise, happiness, sadness, and fear?
300
A phenomenon in which one is hesitant to look in the same place more than once.
What is inhibition of return?
400
This neurotransmitter is primarily responsible for inhibiting other neurotransmitters.
What is GABA? (dopamine is also acceptable - both an inhibitor and an exciter)
400
This type of psychological study looks at one unusual person, group, or geographical area, and cannot be generalized to other populations outside of the one being studied.
What is a case study?
400
This psychologist is best known for determining that there are biological bases for introversion and extroversion.
Who is Hans Eysenck?
400
This phenomenon occurs when one experiences an overabundance of physiological arousal they cannot accurately attribute to a source.
What is the spillover effect?
400
The length of the average person's sleep cycle.
DOUBLE - if can also name length of sleep cycle for military personnel.
What is 90 minutes?
(60 minutes for bonus)
500
This brain structure is responsible for language comprehension.
What is Wernicke's area?
500
This type of analysis is used to determine relationships between variables.
What is a correlation?
500
This psychologist is best known for naming the concept of cognitive dissonance.
Who is Leon Festinger?
500
A release of emotion said to reduce the intensity of emotion, so long as the individual wishes to disclose it.
What is catharsis?
500
This stage of sleep is when the body is the least conscious.