Stages of Development
Pavlov conducted his bell-salivation experiment on this animal
What are dogs?
Inside Out is a great example of storing long-term memories, which happens to include this part of the brain
What is the hippocampus?
The abbreviation REM stands for this
What is Rapid Eye Movement?
Type of psychoactive drug that slows down bodily functions
What is a depressant?
Michael Jordan, Simone Biles, Harry Styles, and Taylor Swift are not a part of your _____
What is reference group?
Piaget's four phases of development
What are sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, and formal operation?
The part of the neuron that protects the axon
What is the myelin sheath?
The 24 sleep-wake cycle is a prime example of this type of bodily rhythm
What is a circadian rhythm?
The three most common drugs in the United States
What is alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine?
Fentanyl, morphine, meth, and codeine are all types of this psychoactive drug
What are opioids?
Provide an explanation of Harry Harlow's experiment.
Monkeys were separated from their mothers at an early stage of life, which resulted in them becoming distant, cold, and disobedient. This illuminates how important the first few months of life are for an animal/human.
The four lobes of the brain
What are the frontal lob, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and occipital lobe?
The effects of sleep deprivation
What is a slowed processing time, difficulty remembering, irritability, etc?
The ABC Model of Attitudes stands for...
What is affective, behavior, and cognitive?
Using logic and factual evidence to persuade a person to think or act a certain way is known as taking this kind of route
What is the central route?
The type of psychology that Maslow studied, in which self-actualization and the inherent goodness of people is emphasized
What is humanism?
This is the part of the brain that you are looking at-- it includes all the fissures and pink exterior layer
What is the cerebral cortex?
The name of the sleep disorder that is informally known as bed-wetting
What is enuresis?
The discomfort that someone feels due to their behaviors not lining up with their attitudes is known as this
What is cognitive dissonance?
Our tendency to protect our self-esteem by over-hyping our accomplishments and ignoring our faults
What is the self-serving bias?
The term that is best defined as a tendency for volunteers to respond a certain way because they know they are being observed, or they know that the researcher wants
What is participant bias?
Phineas Gage experienced a life-altering event-- explain what happened and what part of the brain was affected
Phineas Gage suffered an injury that involved a pole entering one side of his head and exiting the other. He miraculously survived, but the pole went through his prefrontal cortex, ultimately changing his personality in a negative way.
Back in cavemen times, it was dangerous to go out at night (not being able to see where they were going, animals, etc.) so our bodies naturally adapted
What is the actor-observer bias?
The term that is best defined as the psychological concept for a person to explain the how and the why for a person's behavior
What is attribution theory?