Drugs
the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.
What is Addiction?
The variable that is not being measured in an experiment.
What is an Independent Variable?
This theory describes the dynamics of population change in settings affected by reproduction, selection, mutation, and drift
What is Evolutionary Theory?
The brain cells responsible for receiving sensory input from the external world, for sending motor commands to our muscles, and for transforming and relaying the electrical signals at every step in between.
What is a Neuron?
He is often referred to as the father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
When a drug's effect decreases after a person is repeatedly exposed to the same drug.
What is Tolerance?
The type of definition that scientists use to define the dependent variable.
What is an operational definition?
This theory asserts that brain structures and neurophysiology are what determine your personality traits
What is Biological Theory?
Its counterpart is the parasympathetic nervous system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This scientists theory suggests that human behavior is influenced by unconscious memories, thoughts, and urges.
Who is sigmund freud?
The three major categories of psychoactive drugs.
What are depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens?
A type of research method that requires one to observe people in their natural habitat.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
This theory emphasizes looking at the whole individual and stresses concepts such as free will, self-efficacy, and self-actualization.
What is Humanistic Theory?
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum?
This famous psychologist experimented on rhesus monkeys.
Who is Harry Harlow?
Caffeine is classified as this type of psychoactive drug.
What is a Stimulant?
Expirenment where neither the participant nor the experimenter is aware of which condition people are assigned to (drug studies)
What is a Double-Blind Experiment?
This theory states our thinking influences our emotional and behavioral experiences and vice versa.
What is cognitive theory?
This transmitter is known as the "feel-good" hormone because it's associated with pleasure and reward.
What is Dopamine?
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
This narcotic drug leads to physiological dependence and the development of tolerance; derivatives are morphine, heroin, and codeine.
What is Opium?
It is an ethical guideline that requires the researcher to gain participants' permission to conduct a study.
What is Informed Consent?
This theory focuses on the psychological drives and forces within individuals that explain human behavior and personality. Originated from Sigmund Freud.
What is psychodynamic theory?
This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language (think Tell-Tale Brain!)
What is Broca's aphasia?
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?