Perspectives
Focuses on thinking processes: taking in, processing, storing and retrieving info
What is cognitive perspective?
The founder of modern psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
What is manipulated in an experiment
These brain cells provide support and nutrients for neurons
What are Glia?
From the Latin for "about a day," these body rhythms govern cycles of wakefulness and sleep.
What is circadian rhythm?
Focuses on empathy and how healthy people can reach self actualization
What is the Humanistic Perspective?
This behaviorist was the first to systematically study human emotions with the Little Albert Experiment
Who was John Watson?
This is the name for when participants change their behavior when they notice they are being observed
What is Participant bias?
This part of the brain translates to "little brain" in Latin
What is the cerebellum
The two word term that has its origins in a hostage taking that followed a botched bank robbery in Sweden
What is Stockholm syndrome?
This perspective is being illustrated by giving the winner of this Jeopardy! game a prize.
The Russian Physicist who conceptualized "Classical" conditioning on his research with dogs.
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
A study done over a period of time
What is a longitudinal study?
The part of the brain that is responsible for blood pressure, heart rate and breathing
What is the medulla
When a person manifests a psychological problem through a physiological problem
What is somatoform disorder/conversion disorder?
Studies the unconscious mind and how childhood has shaped it
What is psychoanalytic perspective?
Created 8 psychosocial stages of development
Who was Erik Erikson?
An in-depth study on one individual
What is a case study?
This part of the brain controls hunger, arousal, body temperature, thirst and the endocrine system
What is the hypothalamus?
This is an environmental substance that is harmful to a pre-natal organism
What is a teratogen?
"The whole is something else than the sum of its parts"
This Swiss psychologist came up with stages of cognitive development
Who was Jean Piaget?
The number indicating how closely two things are linked
What is the correlation coefficient?
The type of membrane that surrounds the neuron
What is a selectively permeable membrane?
The scientific study of human behavior in organizations and the workplace
What is I/O psychology?