Founding Fathers
Conditioning
Memory
Glands
Consciousness
100
Who was a student of Titchener, who became the first women to receive a Ph.D. in Psychology?
Who is Margaret Washburn?
100
What is a any event, when it follows a response, makes that response less likely to happen again?
What is punishment?
100
What is defined as the memory system in which information is held for brief periods of time while being used?
What is short-term memory?
100
What gland is responsible for regulating metabolism?
What is the thyroid gland?
100
What is defined as the inability to get to sleep, and stay asleep?
What is insomnia?
200
Who is known as the Father of Psychology?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
200
What is learning that remains hidden until it becomes useful?
What is latent learning?
200
What is the brief memory of something a person has just heard?
What is echoic memory?
200
What does the pancreas control?
What is sugar in the blood?
200
Is nicotine considered a stimulant or depressant?
What is a stimulant?
300
Who is known as the Father of Functionalism?
Who is William James?
300
What is the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures?
What is learned helplessness?
300
Where is the pituitary gland located?
What is the brain?
300
What is a sleep disorder in which a person immediately falls asleep without warning?
What is narcolepsy?
400
Who broke experiences into emotions and sensations?
Who is Titchener?
400
Who is responsible for the theory of classical conditioning?
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
400
What is a way in which bits of information are combined into meaningful units so that more information can be held?
What is chunking?
400
What are defined as glands that secrete chemicals called hormones directly into the bloodstream?
What are endocrine glands?
400
What are drugs that decrease the functioning of the nervous system?
What are depressants?
500
Who used the approach of operant conditioning?
Who is B.F. Skinner?
500
What is a reflex response that is caused by watching the reaction of another person?
What is vicarious conditioning?
500
What states that information that is more "deeply processed" will be remembered more efficiently and for a longer time?
What is the Levels-of-processing model?
500
What does the pineal gland release?
What is melatonin?
500
What does REM stand for?
What is rapid eye movement?
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