Neurotransmitters
Neurotransmitter that creates pleasurable sensations and helps in motor movement
What is dopamine?
Conducted first psychology experiments in the first lab
Who is William Wundt?
Chemical messengers that relay neural messages across the synapse
What is neurotransmitters?
A historical school of psychology that sought out to understand how the brain works by studying perception and perceptual learning
What is Gestalt Psychology?
A brain-stem structure that controls breathing and heart rate
What is the Medulla?
Neurotransmitter mainly used in learning and memory
What is acetylcholine?
Famous for Bobo Doll experiment on observational learning
Who is Albert Bandura?
The body's tendency to maintain a biologically balanced condition, especially with regard to nutrients, water, and temperature
What is homeostasis?
Emphasizes how our physical makeup and the operation of our brain influence our personality, preferences, behavior, and abilities
What is Biological View?
A brain-stem structure that regulates brain activity during sleep and dreaming
What is the Pons?
Lacking this neurotransmitter can cause depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder
What is serotonin?
Developed psychoanalysis
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Words associated with new information to be remembered
What are natural language mediators?
Suggests that many human traits arise from hereditary characteristics established in our remote ancestral past
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
A pencil-shaped structure forming the core of the brain stem
What is Reticular Formation?
What is norepinephrine?
Humanistic psychologist known for his "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of self-actualization
Who is Abraham Maslow?
A retrieval method in which one must reproduce previously presented information
What is recall?
Psychological change resulted from an interaction between the heredity programmed in our genes and the experiences presented by our environment
What is Developmental View?
The "little brain" attached to the brain stem, responsible for coordinated movements
What is the Cerebellum?
Lacking this specific neurotransmitter can cause brain damage
What is glutamate?
Described process of operant conditioning
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Different influences of the two brain hemispheres on various emotions. The left hemisphere influences positive emotion, and the right hemisphere influences negative emotions
What is lateralization of emotion?
Our actions are profoundly influenced by the way we process information streaming in from our environment
What is Cognitive View?
The brain's central "relay station," situated just atop the brain stem
What is the Thalamus?