Hall of Famous People
Proposed a hierarchy of motives from physiological needs to self-transendence.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Ivan Pavlovs experiment of training dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell is known as...
What is Classical Conditioning?
This neurotransmitter helps to explain good feelings such as "runners high".
What are Endorphins?
This lobe receives information from the visual fields in the back of the head.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
This type of memory holds few items briefly before information is forgotten.
What is Short-Term Memory?
This psychologist rejected Introspection and studied how consequences shape our behavior.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Phillip Zimbardo conducted this experiment to test how role-play affects peoples attitudes.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
An undersupply of this neurotransmitter causes Depression...
What is Serotonin?
This brain hemisphere controls language and Analysis.
What is the Left Hemisphere?
The part of the brain that is associated with Explicit Memory is known as...
What is the Hippocampus?
This psychologist believed in the concept of the Id, Ego, and Super Ego.
Who is Carl Jung?
This experiment involved children watching adults hit a doll, later having an influence on the children actions.
What is Albert Banderas Bobo Doll experiment?
A lack of this neurotransmitter results in Parkinson's disease.
What is Dopamine?
This area in the brain controls language reception, comprehension, and expression.
What is Wernicke's Area?
The term for incorporating misleading information of an event into a persons memory...
What is the Misinformation Effect?
This psychologist distinguished between fluid and crystalized intelligence.
Who is Raymond B. Cattell?
This experiment by a third grade teacher, conducted to teach her students the effects of Racism and Prejudice.
What is "A Class Divided"?
This neurotransmitter helps control alertness and arousal in the body.
What is Norepinephrine?
The impairment of language caused by damage to the left hemisphere in either Broca's or Wernicke's Area is known as...
What is Aphasia?
An increase in Synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation is called...
What is Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)?
This psychologist was the first African American President of the American Physiological Association.
Who is Kenneth B. Clark?
This experiment showed the effects of maternal separation, dependency, and social isolation on monkeys.
What is Harlow's Monkey Experiment?
When this neurotransmitter is blocked, the body's muscles contract, resulting in Paralysis.
What is Acetylcholine (Ach)?
These cells support, nourish, and protect neurons in the Nervous System.
What are Glial Cells?
The disruptive effect of prior learning on recalling new information is...
What is Proactive Interference?