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History of Psychology
Research Methods
The Neuron
The Brain
Neurotransmitters
100
Wundt's student who founded the first school of thought called structuralism
Who is Titchener?
100
Taking an abstract concept and translating it into some objective measure
What is operationalization?
100
When neuron fires to prevent other neurons from firing
What is inhibitory process?
100
Regulatory functions (e.g. breathing, digestion, sleep)
What is the brain stem?
100
Neurotransmitter responsible for bursts of energy
What is epinephrine?
200
Freud's main research method; "to look within"
What is introspection?
200
Participants that are not exposed to any level of the IV prior to the measuring of the DV
What is a control group?
200
Gaps in myelin sheath that help speed up message
What are Nodes of Ranvier?
200
Where sensory info goes for processing
What is the thalamus?
200
Reward and motivation
What is dopamine?
300
Replaced behavioral psychology and became the dominate perspective in the 1950s
What is cognitive psychology?
300
Major issue with correlational research
What is causality?
300
Generally what happens when a neurotransmitter exits the synapse
What is reuptake?
300
Emotional center of brain
What is the amygdala?
300
Neurotransmitter responsible for motor control over muscles
What is acetylcholine?
400
Believes brain is a product of evolution
What is evolutionary psychologist?
400
One reason we can make cause and effect claims in experimental studies
What is random assignment?
400
Type of drug that inhibits reuptake and enzyme deactivation
What is agonist?
400
When severed, left and right hemisphere cannot communicate; found in split-brain patients
What is the corpus calossum?
400
The primary inhibitory transmitter in the nervous system
What is GABA?
500
This person was frustrated by early attempts of psychology being nonscientific and felt a need to focus on objective, empirical observations
Who is Watson?
500
Three main threats to internal validity
What is evaluation apprehension, hypothesis-guessing, and experimental expectancies?
500
As the neuron fires, the process that allows more positive ions inside the cell before returning to a slightly more negative, resting state
What is depolarization?
500
Language comprehension
What is Wernicke's area?
500
The primary excitatory transmitter in the nervous system
What is glutamate?