Psychologists
Brain
Misc
Memory
Misc
100
Who proposed that everything the mind perceives is a function of the state of nerves coming into the brain.
Who is Mueller?
100
What part of the brain is active when you are listening to music?
What is the Temporal Lobe
100
Name three ways for obtaining data.
What is observation, testing and interviewing.
100
What memory serves as a staging ground for thought?
What is primary memory?
100
What focuses on higher mental processes, including thinking, memory, reasoning, problem solving, judging, decision making and language.
What is cognitive psychology?
200
Who concluded that mental processes take place in time, but they don't take up any space and therefore they can't be measured?
Who is Immanuel Kant?
200
When you are watching a movie what part of the brain is active?
What is the occipital lobe?
200
This part of the brain is important for memory.
What is the Hippocampus?
200
Material perceived in the environment goes through a buffer called the?
What is sensory memory?
200
What focused on the fundamental mental components of perception, consciousness, thinking, emotions, and other kinds of mental states and activies?
What is structuralism?
300
Who was the first to establish a lab devoted to psychology?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
300
Damage to the brain can cause what three things?
What is trauma, deterioration, PTSD, etc....
300
What makes up our sensory stimuli?
What is sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste?
300
Studying how much memory can get into the consciousness at once is called?
What is the span of apprehension?
300
The behavioral perspecitve was championed by
Who is BF Skinner?
400
Who thought that the mental process must have a purpose and his viewpoint was known as functionalism.
Who is William James?
400
How do early philosophers study the mind?
What is the scientific method, the workings of the mind and behavorism.
400
Name four coping mechanisms that people with disabilities might use.
What is Braille, guide dog, hearing aids, and sign language?
400
The auditory version of iconic memory is called?
What is Echoic memory?
400
In the nature-nurture issue, nature refers to heredity, and nurture refers to the
What is environment?
500
Who published a paper titled "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it".
Who is John Watson?
500
This part of the brain is important in motor control and in some higher-level cognitive functions.
What is the cerebellum?
500
What is the difference between top down and bottom up?
What is top down is perceived in a way that is consistent with the context, but bottom up is slower to perceive.
500
When older learning interferes with new learning this is called?
What is Proactive interference?
500
What type of conditioning applies voluntary responses, which an organism performs deliberately to produce a desirable outcome.
What is operant conditioning?