Drugs
When a drug's effect decreases after a person is repeatedly exposed to a psychoactive drug.
What is tolerance?
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This region of the brain is important in motor control, Latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum
When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts
What is psychoanalytic theory?
School of psychology associated with Freud that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal childhood conflicts in determining behavior
What is Psychoanalysis
The three major categories of psychoactive drugs.
What are depressants, stimulants and hallucinogens?
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.
What is amnesia
People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal dispositions or external situations
What is Attribution theory?
The prespective of psychology interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes
What is biological
This narcotic drug that leads to physiological dependence and the development of tolerance; derivatives are morphine, heroine, and codeine.
What is opium?
A research finding that appears to be universally true across cultures, as opposed to a finding that is only valid within a given culture.
What is an etic?
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.
What is the limbic system?
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
What is Humanistic Theory
Method of exploring consious mental process by asking subjects to look inward and report their sensations and perceptions
What is introspection
A stimulant, this drug has the potential for both a psychological and physiological dependence. This drug boosts mental alertness, reduces the need for sleep, induces a pleasurable rush, and causes a loss of appetite.
What are amphetamines?
The tendency of participants to act differently from normal in a research study because they know they are being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter?
Lawrence Kohlberg founded this theory
What is Theory of Moral Development?
Perspective that emphasized the growth potential of people and responsibility
What is Humanistic
A Neurological disorder resulting from excessive use of antipsychotic drugs. Side effects can occur months to years after treatment has initiated or has stopped.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated.
What is quasi experimental?
This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language
What is Broca's aphasia
Albert Bandura maintains that learning is facilitated by modeling and observational learning
What is social learning theory?
Perspective that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without refrenced mental process. Associated with John Watson
What is behaviorism