Hall of Famous People
In the Lab
Electrical Impulse
Does the GREY MATTER?
How much RAM do you posses?
100

Proposed a hierarchy of motives from physiological needs to self-transendence.

Who is Abraham Maslow?

100

Ivan Pavlovs experiment of training dogs to salivate at the ringing of a bell is known as...

What is Classical Conditioning?

100

This neurotransmitter helps to explain good feelings such as "runners high".

What are Endorphins?

100

This lobe receives information from the visual fields in the back of the head.

What is the Occipital Lobe?

100

This type of memory holds few items briefly before information is forgotten.

What is Short-Term Memory?

200

This psychologist rejected Introspection and studied how consequences shape our behavior.

Who is B.F. Skinner?

200

Phillip Zimbardo conducted this experiment to test how role-play affects peoples attitudes.

What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?

200

An undersupply of this neurotransmitter causes Depression...

What is Serotonin?

200

This brain hemisphere controls language and Analysis.

What is the Left Hemisphere?

200

The part of the brain that is associated with Explicit Memory is known as...

What is the Hippocampus?

300

This psychologist believed in the concept of the Id, Ego, and Super Ego.

Who is Carl Jung?

300

This experiment involved children watching adults hit a doll, later having an influence on the children actions.

What is Albert Banderas Bobo Doll experiment?

300

A lack of this neurotransmitter results in Parkinson's disease.

What is Dopamine?

300

This area in the brain controls language reception, comprehension, and expression.

What is Wernicke's Area?

300

The term for incorporating misleading information of an event into a persons memory...

What is the Misinformation Effect?

400

This psychologist distinguished between fluid and crystalized intelligence.

Who is Raymond B. Cattell?

400

This experiment by a third grade teacher, conducted to teach her students the effects of Racism and Prejudice.

What is "A Class Divided"?

400

This neurotransmitter helps control alertness and arousal in the body.

What is Norepinephrine?

400

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?

400

An increase in Synapse's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation is called...

What is Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)?

500

This psychologist was the first African American President of the American Physiological Association.

Who is Kenneth B. Clark?

500

This experiment showed the effects of maternal separation, dependency, and social isolation on monkeys.

What is Harlow's Monkey Experiment?

500

When this neurotransmitter is blocked, the body's muscles contract, resulting in Paralysis.

What is Acetylcholine (Ach)?

500

These cells support, nourish, and protect neurons in the Nervous System.

What are Glial Cells?

500

The disruptive effect of prior learning on recalling new information is...

What is Proactive Interference?

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