Drugs
Research Methods & Experiments
The Brain
Theories
Miscellaneous
100
When a drug's effect decreases after a person is repeatedly exposed to a psychoactive drug.
What is tolerance?
100
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
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 psychological phenomenon occurs when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency, due to a "diffusion of responsibility."

What is the Bystander Effect?

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 psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
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

Leon Festinger’s theory of "this" describes the mental discomfort we feel when holding two conflicting beliefs, often leading us to change our attitudes to justify our behavior.

What is Cognitive Dissonance?

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

This Russian physiologist won a Nobel Prize for his work with dogs, proving they could be trained to salivate at the sound of a ringing bell.

Who is Ivan Pavlov?

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

In a famous 1950s study on "conformity," Solomon Asch showed that people would give a wrong answer about the length of these if everyone else in the room did so first.

What are Lines?

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

Sigmund Freud proposed that the human psyche is divided into these three parts: the primitive instinct, the realistic mediator, and the moral conscience.

What are the Id, Ego, and Superego?

400

The 1964 murder of this woman in Queens, New York, became a psychological case study after a New York Times article incorrectly claimed that 38 neighbors watched the attack without calling the police.

Who is Kitty Genovese?

500

Often called "the wonder drug," this common over-the-counter pill is used to reduce pain and fever, and is famously prescribed in low doses to help heart health.

What is Aspirin?

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

"French researcher Michel Jouvet coined this 'contradictory' term for the stage of sleep where the low-voltage, desynchronized brain activity mimics the waking state despite a total loss of skeletal muscle tone."

What is REM (or Paradoxical Sleep)?

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