Famous Psychologists
Austrian physician considered the founder of psychoanalysis. Theorized that humans have an unconscious mind.
Sigmund Freud
Disorder marked by feelings of worthlessness, loss of interest in family, friends, and activities lasting two or more weeks.
Major Depressive Disorder
Charlie Gordon underwent a procedure
Flowers for Algernon
carry messages from the body’s tissues and organs inward to the brain and spinal cord.
Sensory Neurons
machine that tests whether a person is lying by measuring physicals responses to questions
polygraph lie-detector
Founder of humanistic psychology
Carl Rogers
a disorder marked by a euphoric, hyperactive, wildly optimistic state of mania followed by depressive episodes typically lasting at least 2 weeks.
Bi-polar disorder
the narrator lived on five ounces of bread per day
Mans Search for Meaning
send instructions out to the body’s tissues and organs.
Motor Neurons
he theorized that there are eight types of intelligence
Howard Gardner
researched the theory of "operant conditioning"
B.F. Skinner
a disorder that causes delusions (false beliefs), hallucinations, unusual physical behavior, and disorganized thinking and speech.
Schizophrenia
Laurie Saunders was editor of the Gordon Grapevine
The Wave
Nerve cells communicate with one another across this narrow space
Synapse
the theory that emotions are caused by physical reactions that occur first
James-Lange theory
Studied classical conditioning in dogs
Ivan Pavlov
a disorder that develops when a person has experienced or witnessed a scary, shocking, terrifying, or dangerous event.
PTSD
A woman takes a holiday in the country, but their are bars on her bedroom window,
The Yellow Wallpaper
These bushy fibers within a neuron receive information and conduct it toward the cell body.
Dendrite
According to this theory of emotion, we feel emotions and experience physiological reactions such as sweating, trembling, and muscle tension simultaneously.
Cannon-Bard theory
theorized that humans have a "hierarchy of needs" that includes self-actualization.
Abraham Maslow
a disorder marked by a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears known as obsessions that often lead to repetitive behaviors.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Jimmie thought it was 1945
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
Chemical messengers that travel across the synapses and are then reabsorbed through a process called reuptake.
Neurotransmitters
theory of emotion that suggests our thoughts are responsible for emotions.
Schachter-Singer theory