Philosophers
Philosopher known as the "father" of American Psychology
What is William James?
A process used to examine relationship between variables.
What is Scientific Method
The device created by B.F. Skinner during his research with rats.
What is a Skinner Box?
Personality is unpredictable, yet specific characteristics can be linked to a person's birth order.
What is Birth Order Theory?
The 2 categories of neurotransmitters
What is excitatory & inhibitory?
In 1879, the first psychology laboratory was founded by...
What is Wilhelm Wundt?
The field of study which seeks to understand how the brain affects behavior.
What is Behavioral Neuroscience?
What is the biological basis of behavior?
Emphasizes the power of free-will, determination, personal growth, and fulfillment of potential.
What is humanistic Psychology?
The 4 Lobes of the Brain
What is frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal?
This philosopher analyzed behavior from an experimental standpoint, behaviorism.
What is John B. Watson?
Responsible for relaying information we sense to the brain.
What is Sensory Neurons?
An unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus.
What is extinction?
How behavior works to help people function in their environment.
What is Functionalism?
Transmits electrical signals down the cell to the next cell.
What is an axon?
This psychologist proposed a tripartite model of personality.
What is Sigmund Freud?
A person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity.
What is temperament?
The first psychology laboratory was founded by ___ in _____.
The influential method of treating mental disorders which emphasizes unconscious mental processes.
What is Psychoanalysis?
Neurotransmitter that regulates mood, digestion, sleep, and sexual desire.
What is Serotonin?
What is Jean Piaget?
What is Environment?
How the lobes of the brain are categorized.
What is by how they receive sensory information and control muscle movement?
The study of human consciousness using experimental methods.
What is Structuralism?
What is central nervous system?