Psychologists
Inventing and developing the technique of psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud
The ____ Prison Experiment depicts human conformity and was cut short after participants took their roles too seriously and began harming “prisoners”.
Stanford
Acts as a relay center connecting the cerebrum and cerebellum to the spinal cord. It performs many automatic functions such as breathing, heart rate, body temperature, wake and sleep cycles, digestion, sneezing, coughing, vomiting, and swallowing.
Brainstem
What is Rem Sleep
A recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur.
School of psychology associated with Freud that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal childhood conflicts in determining behavior
psychoanalysis
Influence on behaviorism. This Psychologist used the term conditioning.
B.F Skinner
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study raises the issues of ethics in psychology in which ______ men were untreated for syphilis so researchers could observe the effects of the disease.
African American
Responsible for personality, behavior, emotions. Judgment, planning, problem-solving. Speech: speaking and writing (Broca’s area). Body movement (motor strip). Intelligence, concentration, self-awareness.
Frontal Lobe
What is Insomnia
Recurring problems in falling or staying asleep.
The perspective that emphasized the growth potential of people and responsibility
humanistic
Cognitive development and child development.
Jean Piaget
Bandura’s Bobo Doll Experiment measured children’s _____ toward a doll after observing others’ treatment of the toy and imitating such behaviors.
Aggression
Lies in the left frontal lobe. If this area is damaged, one may have difficulty moving the tongue or facial muscles to produce the sounds of speech. The person can still read and understand spoken language but has difficulty in speaking and writing (i.e. forming letters and words, doesn't write within lines).
Broca’s area
What are Night Terrors?
A sleep disorder characterized by high arousal and an appearance of being terrified
The perspective of psychology interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes
biological
Classical conditioning is a learning process governed by associations between an environmental stimulus and another stimulus which occurs naturally
Ivan Pavlov
“How fast was the car driving at the time of impact?” VS. “How fast was the car going when it smashed into the other car?” showcases how word choice affects a person ______.
memory/ eye-witness reports
Is the center of our emotions, learning, and memory. Included in this system are the cingulate gyri, hypothalamus, amygdala (emotional reactions), and hippocampus (memory).
Limbic system
What is Narcolepsy
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks.
Method of exploring the conscious mental process by asking subjects to look inward and report their sensations and perceptions
introspection
Believed that the human psyche had three parts: the ego, personal unconscious, and collective unconscious.
The bystander effect is attributed to the brutal murder of a ____-native woman named ____, in which there were multiple witnesses, but no one reported the incident to the police, expecting the other person to do so.
New York City/ Queens
Kitty (last name Genovese optional)
Includes the caudate, putamen and globus pallidus. These nuclei work with the cerebellum to coordinate fine motions, such as fingertip movements.
Basal ganglia
What is Sleep Cycle
A period of sleep lasting about 90 minutes and including one or more stages of NREM sleep, followed by REM sleep
The perspective that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without referenced mental process. Associated with John Watson
behaviorism