Misc.
The father of psychology and founder of the first psychological laboratory was
Wilhelm Wundt
Who was the founder of Gestalt psychology?
Max Wertheimer
An imaging technique that results in three- dimensional image of the brain or body, based on its response to magnetic field.
What is the MRI
This nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System
What occurs in the pre-frontal cortex?
What is executive functioning?
Psychology is the study of
Behavior and Cognitive processes.
_________was a theorist who believed that our brains adapt and used the findings of Charles Darwin’s work with Natural Selection as the comparison of brain development. His school of psychology was called Functionalism.
William James
What does an EEG measure?
What is brain waves?
This system is outside of the spinal cord and the brain.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System ( PNS)
This area of the brain sits in the back and is responsible for visual processing.
What is the Occipital Lobe
The 4 main goals of psychology
Describe, Explain, Predict and influence
This researcher experimented on obedience and his research is an example of the need for ethics around research.
Stanley Millgram
A computer enhanced x-ray image of the brain or body
What is a CT
What two parts does the Peripheral Nervous System break into?
What is the Somatic & Autonomic.
When damaged, your personality will be altered.
What is the frontal lobe?
I woke up one morning and read my horoscope and it advised me that I was going to be very lucky today and get everything I wanted. I was super excited to start my day because that sounded like it would be nice if it was true. What have I done that we in science have to be careful of not allowing to happen in our research?
Uncritical acceptance
In 1978, Richard Nesbitt & Timothy Wilson conducted a study using silk stocking to test what method:
Introspection
Uses MRI technology to record activity in your brain as you are performing an activity or thinking about something, like lying.
What is an fMRI
The state responsible for conserving energy.
What is the Parasympathetic state.
If you were to have. PET scan while listening to your favorite song, what part of the brain would light up?
What is the Temporal Lobe?
In the principals of critical thinking, the 5th one; ______________ is when researchers/scientists purposely try to disprove previously found information. This is vital in the constant growth in science.
Falsification
Which school of thought in psychology is known for developing the proper use of reward, punishment, and conditioning to change problems?
Radical Behaviorism
High resolution imaging technique that captures brain activity by attaching radioactive particles to glucose materials.
This is the state responsible for "fight or flight".
What is the Sympathetic state.
It is within this hemisphere that Language, speech & writing occurs.
What is the Left Hemisphere