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100
The founder of functionalism.
Who is William James?
100
The sensory system for taste.
What is the Gustatory system?
100

The major structure that connects the two cerebral hemispheres.

What is the corpus callosum?

100

A type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus.

What is classical conditioning?

100

The four subtypes include paranoid, catatonic, disorganized, and mixed.

What is schizophrenia?

200
The father of behaviorism; believed in nurture over nature; believed that psychology should move away from studying consciousness.
Who is John Watson?
200

Looking at this jeopardy board, I determine that the color of the point values is yellow. Yellow is an example of this

What is perception?

200

The structure found near the base of the forebrain that is involved in the regulation of the basic biological needs.

What is the hypothalamus?

200

The reappearance of an extinguished response after a period of nonexposure to the conditioned stimulus.

What is spontaneous recovery?

200

The disease formerly known as manic-depressive disorder, and marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods.

What is bipolar disorder?

300
Argued that the foremost source of human motivation is striving for superiority, and believed in the process called compensation.
Who is Alfred Adler?
300

The receptor smells for the olfactory system.

What is olfactory bulb?

300

The part of the limbic system involved in learning and memory.

What is the hippocampus?

300

The type of learning christened by B. F. Skinner.

What is operant conditioning?

300

When people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity.

What is dissociative fugue?

400

Personality theorists like Jung, who modified and modernized Freud's psychodynamic theory, are called this.

What is Neo-Freudians

400

The illusion of movement created by presenting visual stimuli in rapid succession.

What is the phi phenomenon?

400

The two structures found in the lower part of the brainstem.

What are the medulla and the pons?

400

According to Kohlberg, a judge who decides to uphold the law by sentencing a man to prison for life for "mercy killing" his terminally ill wife at her request is in this stage of moral development

What is post-conventional?

400

Physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors.

What are somatoform disorders?

500
Created a stage theory that describes the three levels of moral reasoning (which can each be divided further into two stages) and how people think about right and wrong.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
500

The theory stating that perception of pitch corresponds to the rate, or frequency, at which the entire basilar membrane vibrates.

What is the frequency theory?

500

The part of the brain connected to the hypothalamus that releases a variety of hormones that fan out within the body, stimulating actions in other endocrine glands.

What is the pituitary gland?

500
Which of the 4 schedules of reinforcement has the greatest resistance to extinction?
What is variable-ratio scheduling?
500

The part of the DSM diagnostic system that shows personality disorders or mental retardation.

What is Axis II?