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Historical Figures
Schools Of Thought/ Perception
Research/ Statistics
Nervous System
Brain Anatomy/ Functions
100
Who was the first person to create a lab, and establish psychology as a science?
Wilhelm Wundt
100
What school of thought broke down experiences into components? To figure out the whole brain!"Many parts to a whole."
Structuralism
100
What is a theory?
An explanation that organizes our observations.
100
What is the signal that is traveling down the axon called?
Action Potential
100
Name 2 out of the many ways we can examine the brain. What types of tests?
EEG PET MRI fMRI
200
Student of Wilhelm Wundt, came up with the school of Structuralism, and used the method of introspection during experiments.
Edward B. Titchener
200
What school of thought focuses on reactions, and the way we behave to certain stimuli.
Behaviorism
200
How do we eliminate Bias in an experiment? Name the two procedures.
Placebo Double Blind Experiment
200
What are the branch like receptors that receive the message and pass it to the soma.
Dendrites
200
Which brain structure is part of the brain stem and controls heartbeat and breathing?
Medulla
300
Who came up with the school of structuralism?
William James
300
What school of thought focuses on thoughts, feelings behaviors, and questions why they are important?
Functionalism
300
(1 1 2 5 5 5 6 7 8 8 9) What is the Mode, Mean, and Median?
5 5.18 5
300
What are the three different types of neurons? *Remember how the message is passed on in steps*
Sensory Neurons Interneurons Motor Neurons
300
Where is your motor cortex located? Which Lobe?
Frontal Lobe
400
Name one of the two major historical figures that introduced the school of behaviorism.
John B. Watson B.F. Skinner
400
What psychology subfield focuses on how the body and brain enable emotions, memory, and sensory experiences?
Neuroscience
400
A descriptive method used, which involved watching and recording the natural behavior of a participant in his/her natural environment. What type of observations is it?
Naturalistic Observation
400
What is the function of post synaptic membrane and pre synaptic membrane? Be Specific.
Neurotransmitters pass from the pre synaptic membrane to the post synaptic membrane through synapse.Transmitters leave from axon terminals and attach to dendrite receptors in new neuron.
400
Name the 4 most important lobes in the cerebral cortex.
Frontal Occipital Parietal Temporal
500
Name one of the major female contributors to psychology.
Mary Whiton Calkins Margaret Floy Washburn
500
What Sub field/Perspective would focus on the way we react in society.
Socio-Cultural
500
Name at least 2 of the 3 major research methods.
Descriptive Method Correlational Method Experimental Method
500
Name the 2 majors nervous systems in the human body.
Central Nervous System Peripheral Nervous System
500
Name one of the two unique things that your brain is able to do, and explain. *Learned in class*
Plasticity- The brains ability to change, by reorganizing after damage, and building new pathways based on experience. Neurogenesis- formation of new neurons