Brain Anatomy
This part of the brain deals with emotional processing, especially with fear, anxiety, and aggression.
What is Amygdala?
Conducted by John B. Watson, this experiment classically conditioned a child to fear white, furry objects.
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
People with this disorder can experience excessive worry and nervousness, rumination, restlessness, and inattention.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Which psychologist is most famous for studying the unconscious mind, psychosexual stages, and dream analysis?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This parenting style is characterized by high responsiveness, high demanding-ness, and encourages independence with emotional support.
What is Authoritative Parenting Style?
This lobe is responsible for executive functioning, like decision-making, and attention and focus.
What is Frontal Lobe?
This famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Zimbardo Prison Experiment
Common symptoms of this disorder include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and abnormal behaviors.
What is Schizophrenia?
This is a mental representation of one's environment; involves navigation and spatial reasoning.
What is Cognitive Map?
This social psychological phenomenon occurs when individuals are less likely to help a victim when other people are present.
What is Bystander Effect?
Located at the back of the brain, this part is largely responsible for balance, movement, and motor coordination.
What is Cerebellum?
This unethical experiment tested obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
What is Milgram Experiment?
What is Bipolar II?
This is a vivid and detailed recollection of circumstances in which a person first learned/experienced a surprising, emotionally significant event.
What is Flashbulb Memory?
This mental health condition is characterized by lack of remorse, disregard for the rights of others, impulsivity, and aggression.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This band connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
What is Corpus Callosum?
This series of studies tests social influences on participants matching the lengths of lines.
What is Asch Conformity Experiment?
People with this disorder are characterized as having two or more distinct personality states or identities.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This is known as the minimum level of a stimulus that can be detected by an organism at least 50% of the time.
What is Absolute Threshold?
In classical conditioning, this describes when a behavior returns after it was previously extinguished for a period of time.
What is Spontaneous Recovery?
This brain region is located in the occipital lobe and is responsible for facial recognition.
What is Fusiform Gyrus?
This study tests selective attention and perception by having participants count the number of basketball passes in a video.
What is Invisible Gorilla Experiment?
What is Oppositional Defiance Disorder?
Due to brain damage in the left frontal lobe, this neurological condition causes difficulty producing speech, but preserves language comprehension.
What is Broca's aphasia?
What is Reticular Formation?