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The Brain
History
Research Methods
Sensation & Perception
Things and Stuff. And Things.
100
This is the name for the brain cell that transmits an electrochemical impulse.
What is a neuron?
100
The word 'psychology' comes from the roots 'Psyche' and 'Logos' from this language.
What is Greek?
100
An experiment is used when we want to infer ___ and ___.
What are cause and effect.
100
This is defined as our brain registering a stimulus of sufficient intensity.
What is sensation?
100
This is the science that studies behavior and the physiological and cognitive processes that underlie it, and it is the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems.
What is psychology?
200
This part of the brain is the area through which all sensory information except for smell is routed.
What is the thalamus?
200
This person is credited with establishing the first empirical research lab dedicated to the study of psychology at the University of Leipzig in 1879.
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
200
A correlation is defined as:
What is the relationship between two (or more) variables.
200
This includes our interpretation of a stimulus.
What is perception
200
This type of research relies on the use of questionnaires or interview techniques to glean information about it's participants.
What is survey research?
300
This area of the brain is responsible for maintaining automatic functions in the body, such as heartbeat, respiration, and blood pressure.
What is the medulla (brain stem is also acceptable)?
300
This person is often credited as the father of modern psychotherapy.
Who was Sigmund Freud?
300
Prof. Whatshisname randomly assigned two groups to receive his new happy pill, or nothing. Unfortunately, his finding that his happy pill made people happier cannot be interpreted because he forgot to control for this.
What is the placebo effect?
300
This phenomenon, awkwardly enunciated by your instructor, explains why we perceive films in the way we do.
What is the phi phenomenon?
300
These are the four lobes of the brain. For 100 additional points, this fifth lobe is hidden beneath the sylvian fissure.
What are the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital? What is the insula (or insular cortex)?
400
This neurotransmitter, modulated by alcohol use, is our brain's major inhibitory neurotransmitter.
What is GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid)?
400
This theoretical standpoint posits that it makes no difference what is going on inside the mind of a living organism, and studies only outwardly observable reactions to stimuli.
What is radical behaviorism.
400
Schacter studied the effect of anxiety on social affiliation. These are the independent and dependent variables.
What are anxiety and social affiliation respectively.
400
These cells in the eye allow for color vision and require more light to function, while these cells provide black and white vision though require less light to function.
What cones and rods, respectively.
400
This substance wraps many neurons and allows for faster neurotransmission via a process called saltatory conduction.
What is myelin?
500
These pathways in the brain, also referred to as the 'what' and 'where' pathways, are responsible for carrying visual information to the temporal and parietal lobes for higher-order processing.
What are the ventral and dorsal streams?
500
The transorbital lobotomy was a popular treatment for psychological disorders until the invention of this drug, or class of drugs.
What is thorazine (antipsychotic drugs)?
500
Josh wants to know whether caffeine improves test scores on his PSY101 exam. In order to find out, he gave all students sitting on the left side of the room a fast-acting dose of caffeine right before the test, and gave all students on the right side of the room a dose of saline solution. Unfortunately, though the left-siders performed better on the test, he cannot say that caffeine caused better performance because he forgot to do this.
What is randomly assign people to groups (random assignment).
500
This is the name of the place where the optic nerves cross.
What is the optic chiasm?
500
This part of the brain, often thought of as the 'reward center,' responds to dopamine, and when stimulated in rats causes a huge increase in behavior that will lead to future stimulation of this area.
What is the nucleus accumbens?