Brain Anatomy
This lobe is responsible for processing visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This psychologist proposed the eight stages of psychosocial development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
The RMP of a neuron is this voltage.
What is - 70 mV.
The humanistic psychologist that developed the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
The neurotransmitter linked to pleasure and reward.
What is DA?
The "little brain" that coordinates movement and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
Piaget's stage where children begin using logic but struggle with abstract concepts.
What is the concrete operational stage?
This ion rushes into the neuron during depolarization.
What is sodium?
The social psychologist who studied obedience in his famous shock experiment.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
The term for the brain's ability to change and adapt.
This structure connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
According to Vygotsky, this term refers to the help a child receives when learning a new skill.
Scaffolding
The "all or none" principle means that this happens when a neuron reaches threshold.
What is an action potential?
The father of modern psychology, who was the first to separate psychology from philosophy.
Who is Wilhem Wundt?
The famous experiment where a baby was conditioned to fear a white rat.
What is the Little Albert experiment?
This deep brain structure is involved in emotions, particularly fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
The term for a child's ability to understand that objects exist even when not seen.
What is object permanence?
Myelinated axons conduct action potentials faster due to this process.
He conducted the Bobo doll experiment to study observational learning.
Who is Albert Bandura?
What is the primary function of the basal ganglia?
What is motor control?
The brainstem structure responsible for sleep and arousal.
What is the pons?
Piaget's final stage of cognitive development, where abstract thinking emerges.
What is the formal operational stage?
The threshold voltage required to trigger an action potential.
What is - 55 mV?
He developed the first modern personality test and introduced concepts of introversion and extraversion.
Who is Carl Jung?
The sleep stage associated with sleep spindles and k-complexes.
What is stage 2 non-REM?