Psychology Terms
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100

She is the Greek Goddess of the Soul.

Who is Psyche?
100

A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus 

What is a Conditioned Response  CR?

100

Physician that established the first psychology lab.

Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

100

The bumpy convoluted surface of the brain, the body's control and information processing center.

What is the cerebral cortex? 

100

The year CES was founded.

1984

200

A testable explanation for an observation or research question. 

What is a hypothesis?

200

The bell associated with the food in Pavlov's experiemnt.

What is the Conditioned Stimulus CS?

200

Where was the first pscyh lab was established.

What is Germany?

200

A group of neural structures at the base of the cerebral hemispheres that is associated with emotion and motivation. 

What is thee limbic system?

200
The number of students that currently attend CES from the 3 year old through 12th.  

What is 637?

300

The scientific study of behavior.

What is Psychology.

300

A natural automatic reaction to an unconditioned stimulus. 

What is an Unconditioned Response UR?

300
The century when Psychology originally became established as a scientific discipline.

What is the 19th century? 

300
A chemical messenger that carries impulses across the synaptic gaps between neurons.
What is the neurotransmitter? 
300

The most important part of our school mission every single moment of every single day!

What is to BE KIND, BE KIND, BE KIND?

400

One major goal of psyhology is to understand how people think, feel, and ________?

What is Behave?

400

Something that automatically causes a response without learning.

What is an Unconditioned Stimulus US?

400

The method of psychology that looking forward to examine one's own thoughts and feelings.

What is Introspection?

400

The structure of the brain tht relays messsages from teh sense organs to the cerebral cortex.

What is the thalamus?

400

The name of my children's first grade teacher who remains at CES today.

Who is Mrs. Cindy Dean

500

Famous psychologist known for developing influential theories about the unconscious mind, dreams, childhood and personality. 

Who is Sigmund Freud?

500

Something that originally does not cause the response but does after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus. 

What is a Conditioned Stimulus CS?
500

Sigmund Freud's approach to treatment that was developed by him specifically and is still widely used.

What is Psychoanalysis?  
500
The area of the brain that is responsible for voluntary movement and balance.

What is the cerebellum?

500

The year CES opened their upper school. 

What is 2012?