Psychologists
This man developed an influential psychoanalytic theory of personality.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Ivan Pavlov's training of the dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell is an example of this process.
What is classical conditioning?
This technique is used by psychologists when conducting an experiment when both the participants and the researchers are unaware of who received treatment and who received a placebo.
What is a double-blind procedure?
Specializes in language (except in some left-handed people where language is mainly processed on the right side of the brain.
The Left Hemisphere
This is the brand of psychology that studies how the unconscious drives conflicts and influences behavior and uses that information to treat people with disorders.
What is psychodynamic psychology?
This man is said to have had the first psychological laboratory.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Was one of the early case studies of Broca's aphasia; he has severely impaired speech.
Who is Tan?
This is a method of analysis and processes in which the structure is more important than the behaviors; focused on identifying the structures of the human mind and identification of the basic elements of consciousness.
What is structuralism?
The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
This is the view that psychology would 1.) be an objective science that 2.) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. It deals with behavior.
What is behaviorism?
This man is the founder of Functionalism.
Who is William James??
It was the source of groundbreaking new knowledge on the role of the hippocampus in memory.
Who is Henry Molaison (H.M)?
This is the concept in that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
Involved in higher cognitive functions such as planning, reasoning, and self-contol.
What is the prefrontal Cortex?
How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
What is Cognitive Psychology?
This woman improved mental facilities for the mentally ill in the early 19th century.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This experiment was conducted by John Watson showing empirical evidence of classical conditioning in humans.
What is the Little Albert experiment?
The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that you could have predicted or foreseen it all along.
What is Hindsight Bias?
Controls heartbeat and breathing, and begins where the spinal cord enters the skull.
What is the Medulla Oblongata?
Studies how humans interact with machines and technology; attempts to create technological systems that enhance human capabilities.
What is Human-Factors Psychology?
This man developed the theory of classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This man survived tamping iron going through his frontal lobe.
Who is Phineas Gage.
The brain’s ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.
What is Neuroplasticity?
Works with the cerebellum and cerebral cortex to control voluntary movements.
What is the Basal Ganglia?
Studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.
What is Clinical Psychology?