Who trained dogs with bells and food?
Ivan Pavlov
The brain area involved in understanding and producing meaningful speech
Wernicke's area
A disorder characterized by intense, frequent or continuous anxiety
Anxiety disorder
hypnochondria
fear of becoming ill
What is the university committee responsible for evaluating whether research proposals provide adequate protection of the rights of the participants called?
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Who introduced behaviorism?
Watson
Parietal lobes are to ______, as occipital lobes are to ______.
sensing: seeing
A disorder characterized by age-inappropriate inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity.
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
agoraphobia
fear of being in small spaces; or fear of being in open places
the idea that persons should be given sufficient information about a study to make their decision to participate as a research subject an informed and voluntary one is called:
informed consent
Who created the hierarchy of needs?
Maslow
The somatic nervous system is a component of the _______ nervous system.
Peripheral
A psychological disorder marked by extreme mood swings; also called manic-depression.
Bipolar Disorder
zoophobia
fear of animals
A research strategy in which participants are not told of all the details of an experiment at its outset; used for the purpose of avoid demand characteristics is called:
Deception
The founder of psychoanalysis is?
Freud
brain and spinal cord
An anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms such as flashbacks and recurrent thoughts of a psychologically distressing event outside the normal range of experience.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Claustrophobia
fear of enclosed spaces
a post experimental session in which the experimenter explains the experiment's purpose, reduces any discomfort felt by the participants, and answers any questions posed by the participants is called:
debriefing
The ____ controls emotions such as fear.
amygdala
A form of psychopathology, characterized by depressed mood, loss of interest in pleasurable activities, and disturbances in appetite, sleep, energy level and concentration.
major depressive disorder
Trypanophobia
fear of needles
In research ethics, an agreement on the part of the researcher not to divulge the identity of those participating in a research study is called:
Confidentiality