Psychologists
This psychologist believed that unconscious desires led people to behave a certain way and developed psychoanalysis to treat patients. He also developed the idea that the psyche is split between the id, the ego, and the superego.
Sigmund Freud
This disorder involves frequent feelings of dread and worry that interfere with one's life. Some symptoms include feeling "on edge", excessive worry, and not being able to relax.
Generalized anxiety disorder
This lobe in the brain is responsible for things such as executive functions, judgement making, learning, and voluntary muscle movements.
Frontal lobe
A classical conditioning experiment where the animal participants associated a bell sound with food which triggered salivation.
Pavlov's dogs
This discipline is said to have a long past, but a short history.
Psychology
This psychologist is famous for developing behaviorism and using operant conditioning in his experiments to show the effects of reinforcement and punishment.
B. F. Skinner
This disorder involves experiencing hallucinations and delusions. People diagnosed with this disorder may lose touch with reality at times which impacts their everyday life.
Schizophrenia
This part of the central nervous system carries nerve signals from the brain to the body and vice versa.
Spinal cord
A classical conditioning experiment that tested fear response in a child by associating a loud noise with objects that were white and furry.
Little Albert experiment
This stage of sleep is associated with dreaming and shows brain activity similar to a waking state, but with a lack of muscle tone.
REM
This psychologist was one of the founders of psychology and famous for identifying psychology as a scientific field that is separate from philosophy. In 1879, he created the first laboratory for psychology in Leipzig, Germany.
Wilhelm Wundt
Someone with this disorder experiences mood swings that fluctuate from mania to depression. Episodes typically last a few days and impact things like energy level, motivation, and amount of sleep.
Bipolar disorder
This lobe processes sensory information such as touch and body position through its use of the somatosensory cortex.
Parietal lobe
This experiment was conducted on a college campus in 1971 over the period of two weeks in which a particular environment was simulated to try to measure how labels effect behavior. The experiment had to end because the researchers were actively influencing the participants to behave certain ways and the conditions became harmful.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The three major types of memory
Sensory, short term (immediate, working), and long term
This psychologist developed an eight stage theory of psychosocial development in which each stage is designated by an age range and a psychological conflict. For example, Identity vs Confusion.
Erik Erikson
Someone with this diagnosis may have a hard time socializing and communicating their needs. There is also an aspect of repetitive behavior and a desire for strict routine. This disorder is classified as a spectrum disorder with a variety of symptoms.
Autism spectrum disorder
This part of the brain is responsible for voluntary movement, balance, and motor learning.
Cerebellum
In this controlled experiment Albert Bandura tested how children would behave after watching their parents be aggressive towards a certain object. The goal was to see if this modeling behavior would influence children to imitate their parents.
Bobo Doll Experiment
The tube-like structure of a neuron that extends from the cell body, which sends messages to other neurons through the terminal buds.
Axon
This psychologist developed client-centered therapy and is one of the founders of humanistic psychology. He strongly believed that self actualization was a factor in motivation for behavior.
Carl Rogers
This disorder affects how people feel about themselves and others. Someone with this disorder may be impulsive, have unstable and tense relationships, and a strong fear of abandonment.
Borderline personality disorder
This part of the brain's main function is to keep the body in homeostasis. This includes regulating things such as body temperature, blood pressure, and sleep. This part of the brain links the endocrine system and nervous system, and uses hormones to help regulate these processes.
Hypothalamus
In this experiment participants were shown different lengths of lines and asked which one was the longest. Only one of the participants was an actual participant while the rest were actors. The actors were told to mostly pick the wrong line to see if the real participant would feel peer pressure to also pick the wrong one.
Asch Conformity Study
The first woman to receive a PhD in psychology.
Margaret Floy Washburn