Figure Heads
Who is the father of psychology
William Wundt
Study of mind and behavior
What is Psychology
left frontal area of the brain that is critical for spoken language
What is Broca's area
Microscopic cell that transfers information
What is neuron
What are the two parts of the nervous system
What neurotransmitter is affected by addiction? How does this actually affect addiction?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!Dopamine
Resets the dopamine level which the brain needs more and more
Released the first mental health patients from their chains
Philippe Pinel
Greek word meaning soul or spirit
What is Psyche
Area of the left temporal lobe when damaged prohibits understand or produce spoken or written language
What is Wernicke Area
White material that insulates axons
What is Myelin
The brain and spinal cord are in what part of the nervous system
What is central
Addiction involves a change in the reward circuitry in the brain leading to a strong desire for the drug. What is this called?
What is Tolerance
Higher and higher doses needed to obtain same effect
Believed the innate ideas
Who is Plato
When looking at an autopsy of brain all you see is
What is gray matter
Who set up the first psychological laboratory
Who is William Wundt
Carries neural impulses away from the body
What is axon
What carries impulses towards the brain and spinal cord?
What is sensory neurons
What are the two functions of the spinal cord?
What is communication and regulates spinal reflexes
Denied innate ideas
Who is Sigmund Freud
Pavlov researched the learning process called
What is classical conditioning
Term meaning a neuron either fires or it doesn't
Automatically withdrawing your hand from a flame is the result of what type of brain function
What is spinal reflex
What area of the cortex holds the ability to hear
What is temporal lobe
Published theory of color vision
Thomas Young
How many fields of psychology are there?
What are they?
What is 4
What are - experimental/behavioral, social, clinical and developmental
What are the two distinct categories behaviors can be broken down into?
What is overt and covert
What is the gap between two neurons called or referred to as
What is synaptic cleft or synaptic gap
Neurons within the central nervous system that connect sensory and motor neurons
What is interneuron
The left and right hemispheres of the brain are connected by the ___________ and the __________ side is larger and holds language.
What is corpus callosum and left