The Brain
The creative side of the brain is located in this cerebral hemisphere.
What is the right side?
According to the nurture side of the debate, the biggest influence on your behaviour is....
Your environment/upbringing.
Giving a child chocolate to reward them for cleaning up their room is an example of...
He is considered the Father of Psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
According to Freud, this is the first stage of the Psycho-sexual Theory.
What is the oral stage?
Area of the brain that is under-developed in teenagers?
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
Eye colour is determined by which side of the debate: nature or nurture?
What is nature
The bobo doll experiment.
Dreams are said to be a window into the subconscious mind. Our most intense dreams occur during this time in our sleep cycle.
Rapid Eye Movement (REM).
In Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory, children learn the concept of object permanence during this stage lasting from birth to 18 months.
What is the sensori-motor stage?
Collection of nerve cells that connects the 2 cerebral hemispheres.
What is the corpus collasum?
Born as a boy, but raised as a girl, he was our case study on the nature vs. nurture debate.
Who was David Reimer?
Name the behavioural psychologist who pioneered the theory of observational learning.
Albert Bandura
According to Freud's Theory of the Mind, this part of our mind serves as a referee between our pleasure seeking instinctual mind and the part of our mind that aims to follow the morals of society.
What is the ego?
Doing the right thing to avoid punishment and seek reward occurs in stage 1 of his Moral Development Theory.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
What is the amygdala?
This controversial psychologist believed that babies were born gender neutral, therefore a boy could be raised as a girl.
Who is John Money?
BF Skinner took the ideas of classical conditioning and revised them by saying that children learn best through a series of rewards and punishments. What is this theory called?
Operant conditioning.
In order to help us deal with stressful situations, our minds deceive us through the use of these.
What are defence mechanisms?
Carol Gilligan focused here theory of moral development particularly on this group.
Who are women?
This lobe of our brain is located at the back of our brain and is responsible for interpreting what our eyes see.
What is the occipital lobe?
This large study of identical twins separated at birth supports the nature side of the nature/nurture debate.
What is the Minnesota Study of Twins?
Ivan Pavlov stumbled upon the theory of classical conditioning while exploring the digestive habits of...
What are dogs?
She disagreed with Freud's theories on the basis that there were too sexual in nature.
Who is Karen Horney?
According to Erikson's Pscyosocial Theory, most teenager your age are dealing with this conflicting stage.
What is the identity vs. role confusion stage?