The area of the left hemisphere that controls speech muscles.
What is the Broca's area?
100
The school of psychology associated with Freud that emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and internal and childhood conflicts in determining human behavior.
What is Psychoanalytic?
100
A specific prediction or statement of likelihood that a certain event will occur or that a give relationship will be found between two variables.
What is a Hypothesis?
100
"daddy psycho"; established the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig, Germany.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
100
the gap between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron
What is a Synapse?
200
This lobe of the brain receives and processes messages from the skin senses, such as warmth, cold, touch, and pain.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
200
The perspective that focuses on how processing, storing, and retrieving information influences our behavior.
What is the Cognitive Perspective?
200
A research method that studies a topic, small number of animals,or humans in great detail.
What is a Case-Study?
200
A medical doctor (M.D.) who has clinical training and can diagnose physical and neurological causes of abnormal behavior and treat them with prescription drugs.
What is a Psychiatrist?
200
A nerve cell
What are Neurons?
300
These are stored in sacs in the axon terminal; chemical messages that cross over to the next nerve cell.
What are Neurotransmitters?
300
The perspective that believed psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes; associated with John Watson.
What is the Behaviorist perspective?
300
A method of psychological research in which a researcher brings animals or humans into a controlled setting such as a lab or a room in order to study effects of variables on their behavior.
What is a Laboratory setting?
300
The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.
What is the Bystander Effect?
300
this nervous system includes all the nerve cells that send and receive messages from all parts of the body to the spinal cord & brain
What is the Peripheral Nervous System?
400
The brain and spinal cord make up this nervous system.
What is the Central Nervous System?
400
The perspective of psychology interested in the influence of the nervous system, hormones, and genes on cognition and behavior.
What is the Biological perspective?
400
Tis procedure used when neither participants nor researchers directly working with the participants know which group is receiving which treatment.
What is a Double-Blind study?
400
Psychologist who did the famous "shock" experiment to test individual's obedience- whether they would perform a behavior in response to an order given by someone in a position of power or authority.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
500
This hemisphere of the brain controls spatial behavior and artistic efforts.
What is the Right Hemisphere?
500
The perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth and responsibility.
What is the Humanistic perspective?
500
in an experiment, the researcher studies the impact of variables on THIS group.