To break mental processes down into their most elemental components. (Also known as the first school of psychology.)
What is Structuralism?
100
Contains the cell nucleus; processes nutrients and provides energy for the cell.
What is a Cell Body?
100
The part of the brain that processes voluntary muscle movements and is involved in thinking, planning and emotional control.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
100
A basic learning process that involves repeatedly pairing a neutral stimulus with an unlearned stimulus until the neutral stimulus elicits the same response.
What is Classical Conditioning?
100
The process of accessing stored information.
What is Retrieval?
200
Early school of psychology that focused on observable behavior and learning.
What is Behaviorism?
200
The long fluid-filled tube that carries a neuron's messages.
What is an Axon?
200
The wrinkled outer portion of the forebrain.
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
200
The learned, reflexive response to the conditioned stimulus.
What is the Conditioned Response?
200
Memory technique to expand short-term memory by grouping information into meaningful units.
What is Chunking?
300
Early school of psychology that focused on human free will and growth.
What is Humanism?
300
A fatty covering around axons that increases communication speed.
What is the Myelin Sheath?
300
Lobe that is the primary receiving area for auditory information.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
300
The basic learning process that involves increasing or decreasing the likelihood of a behavior by manipulating the consequences.
What is Operant Conditioning?
300
A memory that is unconsciously blocked.
What is Repression?
400
Psychoanalyst who believed that human behavior was motivated by unconscious conflicts that were almost always sexual or aggressive in nature.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
Support cells that provide structure, nutrition and waste removal.
What are Glial Cells?
400
A thick band of axons that connects the two cerebral hemispheres and acts as a communication link between them.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
400
When an organism is exposed to uncontrollable and inescapable unpleasant events, and becomes passive and helpless.
What is Learned Helplessness?
400
Category of long-term memory that involves memories of particular events.
What is Episodic Memory?
500
Founded the school of behaviorism.
Who is John Watson?
500
Short fibers extending from the cell body that receive information from other neurons.
What is the Dendrite?
500
Part of the limbic system that is involved in learning and forming new memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
500
Teaching a new, complex behavior by progressively reinforcing closer and closer approximations to the desired behavior.
What is Shaping?
500
Environmental cues that help trigger recall of information.