Freud and Friends
The skinner box where rats were classically conditioned in a lab belongs to this School of Thought
Behaviourism
This illicit drug results in the lose of a lot of neurons
Methaphetamine
These are the three Ms of finding the average of a set of data
Mean, Median, Mode
What Mental Disorder did Kenneth Bianchi Appear to have.
Dissociative Personality Disorder
The two components of the Central Nervous System
What is the brain and spinal cord
During this experiment led by Albert Bandura they found that kids modelled aggressive behaviour seen by adults
What is the Bobo doll experiment
A human starts with approximately how many neurons
what is 84 billion
This can be proved using experimental methods but not correlational
What is causation/ cause and effect
Franz Gall founded this method of feelings the skull for bumps and contours to determine someone's personality
What is Phrenology
This neurotransmitter is associated w pleasurable emotion
What is Dopamine
These needs are a humans most basic needs and are at the base of Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
What are physiological needs
This neuron structure receives messages
Dendrites
This is one difference between Psychologists and Pyschiatrists.
Pyschiatrists study at medical school whereas Psychologists go to graduate school
or
Psychiatrists can prescribe medication but Psychologists can't
In ancient rome and greece having too much black bile was categorized as melancholic, having an excess of what substance is categorized as Choleric
What is yellow bile
The medulla and Pons regulate unconscious functions such as breathing and circulation and is located in this area of the brain.
a. The Hindbrain
b. The Midbrain
c. The Forebrain
What is the Hindbrain
Influenced by William James this School of Psychology created the idea of a stream of consciousness
What is Functionalism
This is the space between the axon terminal and the receiving dendrite during a synapse
The synaptic cleft
This method yields numerical results
What is quantitative
This is the reason why doctors would cut the corpus callosum: the relay system between the 2 hemispheres of the brain.
What is to reduce the severity of bilateral seizures
The brain is made up of 4 Lobes that each serve different functions in the brain, name 2 lobes
Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Occipital Lobe
These are freuds three defence mechanism
rationalization, projection, repression
This type of drug attaches and blocks the receptor site so a specific neurotransmitter can't attach to that site. ex naloxone
Antagonist
In this type of research both the participant and researcher don't know which group is the control and which is the experimental
What is double-blind
Name 3 abnormal psychological states/disorders/illnesses.
psychosis, delirium, seizures,tourettes, extreme paranoia,trance and fugue states, dementia
This area of the brain is responsible for speech production
What is Broca's area