The lobe of the cerebral cortex most responsible from judgment/decision making and higher level thinking.
What is the frontal lobe?
100
He create four stages of cognitive development in children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
Type of conditioning characterized by reinforcements and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
100
Many 9/11 survivors suffered from this anxiety disorder.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
200
This research Method does not prove causes and effect, but merely shows a strong relationship.
What is a correlation?
200
The old brain structure responsible for breathing and heartbeat.
What is the medulla?
200
The infant understanding the when and object leaves sight it still exists.
What is object permanence?
200
In classical conditioning, when the bell rings and you jump out of your seat, the sound of the bell is this.
What is the conditioned stimulus?
200
The Joker from the Batman movie is an example of this disorder.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
300
After being mugged at gunpoint, this nervous system kicks in to slow down your parid heartbeat, breathing, and sweating.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
300
Kohlberg's moral level where social awareness is prominent.
What is Conventional?
300
Albert Bandura's famous experiment on observational learning.
What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?
300
This psychotic disorder is a result of an extreme traumatic event that forces the person create different realities to buffer themselves from the horror of the event.
What is Disassociate Disorder?
400
In an experiment, the term for the measured outcome of a manipulated variable.
What is the dependent variable?
400
These peas sized structures on both hemispheres of the brain influence aggression and fear.
What is the amygdala?
400
This "big 5" personality trait is expressed when a person is very social and talkative with others.
What is extroversion?
400
In operant conditioning, when a behavior is no longer reinforced, this occurs.
What is extinction?
400
A type of mood disorder where a person emotional state fluctuates between winter and summer.
What is Seasonal Effective Disorder?
500
The first Psychology lab was founded in this year by Structuralist, Willhelm Wundt in Liepzig, Germany.
What is 1879?
500
Hormone produced by the pineal gland that regulates sleep.
What is melatonin?
500
Freud's Oedipus Complex claimed young boys develop affections for their mother and hared/fear of their father, and this opposite scenario for girls.
What is the Electra complex?
500
The "Law of Effect" which states that voluntary behavior is an effect of reinforcers was established by this psychologist.