DRUGS & NEUROTRANSMITTERS
This stimulant drug increases alertness and is found in coffee and energy drinks.
What is caffeine?
In this study, college students were randomly assigned to be guards or prisoners in a mock prison setting.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This brain structure plays a key role in memory formation.
What is the hippocampus?
A study that looks at the relationship between two variables without manipulating them is called this.
What is a correlational study?
Students helped them develop an at-home olfactory test that may help identify cognitive decline before symptoms appear.
Who is Professor Albers?
This neurotransmitter is primarily associated with reward and motivation pathways.
What is dopamine?
In this study, children who observed an adult behaving aggressively toward an inflatable toy were more likely to imitate that behavior.
What is the Bobo Doll experiment?
This lobe is primarily responsible for processing auditory information.
What is the temporal lobe?
In this type of study, neither the participants nor the researchers know who is receiving the real treatment.
What is a double-blind study?
Is a post-doctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Who is Professor Nestor?
This class of drugs slows activity in the central nervous system and includes alcohol.
What are depressants?
In this study, participants believed they were delivering electric shocks to another person under the direction of an authority figure.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This part of the neuron carries electrical impulses away from the cell body.
What is the axon?
When participants are exposed to every condition of an experiment, this design is being used.
What is a within-subjects (repeated measures) design?
This Endicott psychology staff member runs their own Etsy shop.
Who is Dean Wong?
This neurotransmitter is most directly involved in mood stabilization and is targeted by many antidepressants.
What is serotonin?
Infant monkeys preferred a soft cloth surrogate mother over a wire mother that provided food.
What is Harlow’s attachment experiment?
This occurs when a neuron fires after reaching its threshold level of stimulation.
What is an action potential?
According to the Belmont Report, these three core principles guide ethical research involving human participants.
Note: All three are required for full credit.
What are respect for persons, beneficence, and justice?
They have more than 11k followers on TikTok
Who is Professor Anderson?
This drug alters perception and can produce visual hallucinations by affecting serotonin receptors.
What is LSD?
In this study, a young child was conditioned to fear a white rat after it was paired with a loud noise.
What is the Little Albert experiment?
This bundle of nerve fibers connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
If a researcher concludes that a treatment works when it actually does not, this type of error has occurred.
(Rejecting a true null hypothesis is known as this type of error)
What is a Type I error?
They have published 80+ peer-reviewed papers that have been cited more than 10,000 times, including studies on placebo effects in pediatric IBS.
Who is Professor Kelley?