Early Foundations
Before Psychology became a science it was closely tied to this academic field?
What is Philosophy?
A common way psychology teachers help students remember the seven psychological perspectives.
What is the Psych Hand?
This controversial study observed how people conformed to roles in a mock prison.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiement.
Largest lobe of the brain, most injury prone. Responsible for higher level congitive ability like decision making and impulse control.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
This body system communicates slowly but has long-lasting effects by releasing hormones into the bloodstream.
What is the Endocrine System?
He is considered the Father of Psychology and opened the first psychology lab in Germany (1879)
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This modern approach examines how thinking and behavior vary across cultures and situations.
What is Sociocultural Perspective?
In the "Little Albert" experiment, a baby was conditioned to fear what small animal and what figure?
What is a white rat and Santa Claus?
Located in the back of the brain, controls balance, movement and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
This “master gland” of the endocrine system controls other glands and regulates important body functions
What is the Pituitary Gland?
The early school of thought that used introspection to study the mind's structure?
What is structuralism?
This perspective studies how the brain and body shape emotions, memories and sensory experiences.
What is Biological Perspective (or Neuroscience)?
This early treatment for schizophrenia involved inducing comas in patients and was used on mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Nash.
What is Insulin Coma Treatment?
This brain structure, located in the temporal lobe, plays a key role in forming and storing new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
The body's natural ability to maintain a stable internal environment even when external conditions change.
What is homeostasis?
This early school of thought followed structuralism and focused on what the mind does rather than what it is.
What is functionalism?
This perspective explores how people strive for personal growth and self-fulfillment.
What is the Humanistic Perspective?
This controversial study on obedience had participants believe they were delivering this to another person for giving wrong answers.
What are electrical shocks?
Broca’s Area and Wernicke’s Area, are essential for producing and understanding this.
What is language?
This endocrine gland, located in the neck, regulates metabolism, energy levels, and overall growth and development.
What is the thyroind gland
This Enlightenment thinker proposed that the human mind is born without innate ideas (tabula rasa) and that all knowledge comes from experience and sensory perception.
Who is John Locke?
Russian psychologist known for his experiments with dogs, demonstrating classical conditioning by pairing a neutral stimulus with a reflexive response.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Rosemary Kennedy's lobotomy led her sister, Eunice to advocate for people with intellectual disabilities and eventually create this international athletic event.
What is Special Olympics?
The brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections, especially after injury or learning, is known as what?
What is brain plasticity?
These two divisions of the autonomic nervous system work in opposition: one increases activity in the body for “fight or flight,” while the other decreases activity to promote “rest and digest.”
What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous symptoms?