Drugs
Research Methods & Experiments
The Brain
Theories
Case Study
100
When a drug's effect decreases after a person is repeatedly exposed to a psychoactive drug.
What is tolerance?
100

A method often used to synthesize multiple studies into a single conclusion.

What is Meta-analysis?

100
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum
100
When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts
What is psychoanalytic theory?
100

This famous case study revolved around an accident that left a man psychologically different forever.

Who is Phineas Gage?

200
The three major categories of psychoactive drugs. Note: To get full credit, you need all three!
What are depressants, stimulants and hallucinogens?
200

This association is affiliated with one of the leading psychological journals, as well as the citation style used in psychology.

What is the American Psychological Association?
200
The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.
What is amnesia
200
People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal dispositions or external situations
What is Attribution theory?
200

This famous case study involved dividing students into prisoners and prison guards in the basement of a prestigious university.

What is the Stanford Prison Experiment? 

300
This narcotic drug that leads to physiological dependence and the development of tolerance; derivatives are morphine, heroine, and codeine.
What is opium?
300
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?
300
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?
300
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
What is Humanistic Theory
300

This case study left a baby scared of white mice and other furry objects

What is the Little Albert experiment?

400
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?
400
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?
400
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter?
400
Lawrence Kohlberg founded this theory
What is Theory of Moral Development?
400

This case study, which unfortunately featured a murder, revealed the attitude of people towards witnessing someone in need.

Who is Kitty Genovese? (Bystander effect)

500
A Neurological disorder resulting from excessive use of antipsychotic drugs. Side effects can occur months to years after treatment has initiated or has stopped. Hint: Spelling doesn't count!
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
500
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?
500
This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language (think Tell-Tale Brain!)
What is Broca's aphasia
500
Albert Bandura maintains that learning is facilitated by modeling and observational learning
What is social learning theory?
500

Rain Man, a famous movie based on an autistic savant and raising the profile of autism, is based on this real-life man.

Who is Kim Peek?

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