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Drugs, Drugs, Drugs!
Experiments
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This physician in Vienna, Austria, who wrote about his theory of "animal magnetism" a supposed force that flows through peoples' bodies and can be affected by the application of magnets to redistribute and replenish this force.
Who is Franz Anton Mesmer?
100
This area located at the "front" of the brain is responsible for planning, judgment, voluntary movement.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
100
The ways our brains take in and process information about the outside world.
What is Sensation and Perception?
100
This type of drug depress or inhibit brain activity.They produce sedation and sleep, relieve anxiety, produce a sense of relaxation, lower inhibitions, and are potentially addictive.
What is Depressants?
100
The factors in a study that can change.
What is Variable?
200
French physician and neurologist, this man is best known for his work using hypnosis to study mentally ill patients. He was a mentor to Freud.
Who is Jean-Martin Charcot?
200
This part of the brain is responsible for processing body information such as touch, temperature, muscle sensations
What is the Parietal Lobe?
200
The process by which the energy is converted into a neural signal that can be transmitted along neurons to the brain
What is transduction?
200
This type of drug increase brain activity, increase alertness, and arouse activity. They enhance mood, attention and arousal, reduce fatigue, can be addictive, and can cause psychotic (schizophrenic) symptoms at times.
What is Stimulants?
200
A tentative statement that describes a relationship between two variables; a question to be answered or a prediction to be tested.
What is Hypothesis?
300
He is is considered the founder of psychology as an experimental science. He defined psychology as the experimental study of conscious experience and established the first research laboratory in psychology in Liepzig, Germany, in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
300
This area of the brain is responsible for visual processing.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
300
Once you detect a stimulus, if the stimulus is present at a constant level and does not change or provide any new information to your brain, you will stop being sensitive to it.
What is sensory adaptation?
300
This type of drug mimic the brain's natural pain-reducing neurotransmitters, endorphins, and fill the receptor sites for endorphins.
What is Opiates?
300
How the variable is specifically defined in that study, particularly in terms of how it is measured or manipulated; the way you decide to test what you are studying?
What is Operational Definition?
400
He was an Austrian neurologist who saw patients in his private practice. He believed that our childhood experiences, particularly our relationships with our parents, were critically important in affecting personality and behavior later in life. He called his theory psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
This area of the brain is responsible for auditory processing.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
400
Class of drugs that alter mood, distort perception and affect thinking.
What is Psychedelics
400
A term that technically means a result probably did not occur by chance. In other words, if the result of my study is statistically significant, we can be reasonably confident that we have a real result, not just a chance finding; in other words, our hypothesis is supported by the data.
What is Statistical Significance?
500
An American professor and author, he developed a school of thought called Functionalism, which focused how behavior functions to help people adapt and survive.
Who is William James?
500
This part of the brain is important in memory and emotion, particularly negative emotions of anger, fear and disgust.
What is the Amygdala?
500
Sometimes neurons involved in pain transmissions become too responsive and reactive. When this happens, people can experience chronic pain that is unrelated to current sensory input: there's nothing there causing the pain.
What is Sensitization?
500
The umbrella term for the condition in which a person feels psychologically and physically compelled to take a specific drug.
What is Drug Addiction?
500
A statistical technique in which psychologists merge results of numerous studies on one topic into a single large pool of data and analyze it. Meta-analysis can help reveal trends in data and can help scientists resolve contradictory results among studies.
What is Meta-analysis?