Researchers
This researcher spent their time training dogs to expect the sound of a doorbell always preceded delivery of food.
Ivan Pavlov
This is a theory in which the simple association or co-occurrence of ideas or sensations as the primary basis of meaning, thought, or learning.
Associationism
_____________ is the process whereby organisms learn to make or to refrain from making certain responses to obtain or avoid certain outcomes.
Operant Conditioning
This is the general idea of what Psychology is.
Is the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
This researcher believed in dualism, the idea that the mind and body exist as a separate entity; and compared reactions towards stimulus to hydraulics and switches.
Rene Descartes
This is a behavior that is learned by connecting a neutral stimulus with a positive one.
Classical Conditioning
By the middle of the 20th century, ___________ was the most famous psychologist in the world.
B. F. Skinner
Who said, “I think, therefore I am”?
Rene Descartes
This researcher believed that children were born with a blank slate.
John Locke
This is the tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli.
Generalization
______ is the theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that some mental conditions are best treated by altering behavior patterns.
Behaviorism
This person had a scandalous affair with Rosalie Rayner.
John Watson
This research experimented by putting rats in a maze to see if they could find their through. Later, they blinded, deafened, and removed whiskers of the rats to see if there were changes. There was not.
John Watson
This is a psychological concept that delves into how our environmental factors influence our state of mind.
Radical Behaviorism
_______ is part of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
Central Nervous System
This area of the brain is important for learning new facts and forming new memories of events
Occipital Lobe
This researcher invented an automated learning apparatus called the “Skinner Box”.
B. F. Skinner
This is the study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character.
Phrenology
________ is part of the nervous system that transmits signals from sensory receptors to the central nervous system and carries commands from the CNS to muscles.
Peripheral Nervous System
This is a branch of psychology that deals with the relationship between brain function and behavior, usually by examining the functioning of patients who have specific types of brain damage.
Neuropsychology
This researcher proposed that links created during learning and memory formation are not just conceptual connections but actual, physical properties of brains.
William James
This is the weight between a sending and receiving node increases if the two nodes are active at the same time.
Hebbian Learning
These are the four lobes of the brain.
Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital
This is the method of structural neuroimaging based on recording changed in magnetic fields.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging