Important People
Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
He founded the lab at the University of Leipzig In Germany in 1879.
What term is defined as "a revolution from one system of ideas that dominate science at a particular time to another"?
Paradigm Shift
What is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the scientific study of the mind?
Cognitive Psychology
What is the metabolic center of the neuron?
Cell Body
What was the name of the first psychology text book?
Princples of Psychology
Who was the individual that devised the savings curve calculation? (Savings = original time to learn a list - time to learn a list after a delay)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
He worked at the University of Berlin in Germany. He was interested in determining the nature of memory and forgetting.
What term is defined as " A focus on behavior that is strengthened by the presentation of positive reinforcers such as food or social approval"?
Operant Conditioning
What is the approach that is based on overall experience being determined by combining basic elements of sensations?
Structuralism
What is the name of the chemical released at the end of a neuron to signal the next neuron?
Neurotransmitter
How old was little Albert when Watson conducted experiments on him?
9-Months Old
Who taught the first psychology course?
William James
He taught the first psychology course at Harvard University.
What term is defined as " a small gap between the end of a neurons axon and the dendrites or cell body of another cell"?
Synapse
What is the approach that was used by both BF Skinner and John Watson?
Behaviorism
What is the name of the wrinkled covering when looking at an intact brain?
Cerebral Cortex
Ramon Cajal discovered individual units were the basic building blocks of the brain, which became the centerpiece of what?
The Neuron Doctrine
Who was the other psychologist involved in the "Little Albert" experiments besides John Watson?
Rosalie Rayner
What term is defined as "the part of the brain that receives signals from all of the senses and is responsible for coordination of the senses, as well as higher cognitive functions like thinking and problem solving"?
Frontal Lobe
What is the study of the physiological basis of cognition?
Cognitive Nueroscience
What part of the brain is the visual cortex located?
Occipital Lobe
What two methods do we use for brain imaging?
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Functional Magnetic resonance Imaging
Who was considered the first to conduct a cognitive psychology experiment?
Franciscus Donders
What term is defined as " produced speech that was fluent and grammatically correct but tended to be incoherent"?
Wernicke's aphasia
Broca’s aphasia is the difficulty producing speech
Wernicke’s aphasia is a lack of comprehension of speech
What was the approach Sigmund Freud used?
Psychodynamic
is the theory in psychology that is based on human functioning upon the interaction of drives and forces within the person, particularly unconscious, and between the different structures of the personality.
What is it called when a neuron receives a signal from its environment and information travels down the axon to the dendrites of another neuron?
Action Potiential
John McCarthy organized a conference at Dartmouth College in 1956, what was the name of the conference?
Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence