Historic Psych
Buildings where people with disorders are housed. Used to be run by states and were positive, but modern interpretations and uses are very negative.
What are asylums?
When sensory information is detected by a sensory receptor
What is sensation?
These are the nerve cells that send messages all over your body
What are neurons?
This is a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience.
What is learning?
Data that can be numbered.
What is quantitative data?
An ancient group of techniques where they removed a piece of skull on living patients by scraping, drilling, pressing, or cutting.
What is trepanation?
States that things that are close together tend to be grouped together
What is proximity principle?
This is the shell-shaped structure in your inner ear that holds hair cells and fluid; it works with both hearing and vestibular senses
What is the cochlea?
This is an involuntary response that happens without conscious effort and stops once a stimulus is removed.
What is a reflex?
This is the creator of the psychodynamic approach, psychoanalysis as a type of therapy, and also a massive weirdo.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Type of treatment created first by Egas Moniz, then widely spread in the U.S. by Dr. Walter Freeman.
What is a lobotomy?
The technical term for sound
What is audition?
This is the lobe of the brain involved with vision; it is located at the back of your head.
What is the occipital lobe?
This is a part of classical conditioning; a stimulus or trigger that used to be neutral but now triggers a response.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
This is one of the most famous victims of Walter Freeman's icepick lobotomies.
Who is Rosemary Kennedy?
The uncontrollable urge to dance and jump (cause of the dancing plague), named after the alleged cause (wolf spider bite) and the city in Italy where it first appeared.
What is tarantism?
The minimum amount of a stimulus that someone can detect 50% of the time
What is absolute threshold?
This is the gland referred to at the "master" gland; it is located in the brain.
What is the pituitary gland?
This is the type of encoding most used by short-term memory.
What is acoustic encoding?
This system includes anything a child can directly interact with that also interacts with the child in turn; is has a bidirectional influence.
What is the microsystem?
The alternative for insulin shock therapy, which would cause many seizures and many deaths.
What is Metrazol therapy?
Reflects the idea that the whole is different from the sum of its parts
What is gestalt psychology?
This is a gland that produces T-cells; it is located near your heart and lungs.
What is the thymus?
These are the three parts of memory.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
This is the belief that one was possessed by wolves or other animals.
What is lycanthropy?