Psychologists
Who developed the concept of reinforcement?
System of the brain that the hypothalamus belongs to?
Limbic System
What type of psychoactive drug depresses neural activity and temporarily lessens pain / anxiety?
Opiates
What are the three parts of personality?
Id, Ego, Superego
What is the 2nd step of the scientific method?
Design experiment and collect data
Who developed the psychoanalytic theory of personality?
Sigmund Freud
Which part of the brain processes auditory information?
Frontal Lobe
What are the unpleasant symptoms when discontinuing use of a drug called?
Withdrawal
What are the goals of psychology?
What type of association is implied by a negative correlation found in an experiment?
Inverse Relationship
Who is the father of psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
What part of the brain associates written words with meaning?
Angular Gyrus
How does Lithium effect neural communications?
Speeds up the reuptake of Norepinephrine (NE); causes depression.
Which philosopher is strongly associated with empiricism?
John Locke
What does it mean when experimental variables are unknown by both the experimenter and the experimented?
Who’s the psychologist who studied children’s cognitive development?
What part of the brain separates the frontal lobe from the temporal lobe?
Lateral Fissure
What are the sedatives replaced by benzodiazepines due to overdose and dependence.
What is the belief that human beings enter the world with an inborn store of knowledge and understanding of reality?
Nativism
What scale of measurement scales indicating order or relative position of items according to some criterion?
Ordinal Scales
Which psychologist worked on attachment in human infants in the 1950s & 1960s?
John Bowlby
What part of the endocrine system produces prolactin?
Which psychoactive drug defined as a hallucinogen comes from the peyote cactus?
Mescaline
What is the study of how people perceive and experience objects as a whole pattern?
Gestalt Psychology
What format are written reports meant to be published in Psychology?
APA Publication Style