The Biology of Mind Vocab.
Therapy Vocab.
Important People in The Biology of Mind
Important People in Therapy
Misc. Quotes
100
A nerve cell.
What is a neuron?
100
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies.
What is active listening?
100
The most important person when it comes to the mind and body.
What is a human?
100
She was one of many reformers that assisted in the transition from brutal to gentler treatment.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
100
This fictional character said "I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix."
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
200
Chemical messengers that are manufactured by the endocrine glands, travel through the bloodstream, and affect other tissues.
What are hormones?
200
A caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rodgers believed to be conducive to developing self-awareness and self-acceptance.
What is unconditional positive regard?
200
This person had a greater amount of glial cells than an average person.
Who is Albert Einstein?
200
This man came up with the idea for psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
This man said "Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind."
Who is Mark Twain?
300
Portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the back of the head; includes areas that receive information from the visual fields.
What are occipital lobes?
300
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?
300
This person had a metal rod shoot through his left cheek and out of the top of his skull. He miraculously survived but his personality was ruined due to the brain damage.
Who is Phineas Gage?
300
This man came up with client-centered therapy.
Who is Carl Rogers?
300
This man said "I sing the body electric."
Who is Walt Whitman?
400
The brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.
What is plasticity?
400
Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique.
What is psychoanalysis?
400
These two speculated that major epileptic seizures were caused by amplification of abnormal brain activity bouncing back and forth between the two cerebral hemispheres.
Who are Philip Vogel and Joseph Bogen?
400
The work of this man helped teach us operant conditioning.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
400
This man said "I haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably be cured by now."
Who is Woody Allen?
500
The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them.
What is corpus callosum?
500
Involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target certain dopamine receptors.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
500
The director of the McLean Hospital's Brain Bank
Who is Francine Benes?
500
This man sought to reverse clients' belief about themselves by using cognitive therapy.
Who is Aaron Beck?
500
This man said "Brain cells fire in patterns."
Who is Steven Pinker?
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