The Brain
Broca's area is associated with the production of speech, while this area, located in the temporal lobe, is important for language development.
What is Wernicke's area?
After completing an experiment, researchers should do this: explain to participants the purpose of the experiment, as well as any deceptions involved.
What is debrief?
The idea that physical needs (such as food or shelter) create an aroused state that motivates an organism's behavior.
What is drive-reduction theory?
The Simpsons' Principal of Springfield Elementary, and a small chamber used for operant conditioning research on animals - named for the behavioral psychologist who created it.
What is Seymour Skinner Box?
With Professor Nemur, main character Charlie Gordon practices this: a Freudian method of exploring the unconscious in which a person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind.
What is free association?
In a split-brain surgery, this part of the brain is severed, and the two brain hemispheres no longer send signals to each other.
What is the corpus callosum?
This is the ethical principle that participants in a research experiment should be told enough to choose whether or not they want to participate.
What is informed consent?
Cannon-Bard theory suggests the subjective experience of emotion occurs simultaneously with physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. Meanwhile, this theory says the physiological response comes first - "emotion" is our awareness of the physiological response.
What is James-Lange theory?
A famous pyramid-structured diagram named for the humanistic psychologist who created it, and a form of assistance that helps low-income students pay for college.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs-Based Financial Aid?
Before and after undergoing a surgery to raise his IQ, Charlie takes a Thematic Apperception test, as well as this test, in which participants interpret a set of 10 inkblots.
What is the Rorschach inkblot test?
Compared to animals, humans' brains have a greater proportion of these areas; not involved in primary motor or sensory functions, they are responsible for many of the higher mental functions that "make us human".
What are association areas?
John B. Watson conducted this famous experiment in classical conditioning, teaching an infant to associate animals with loud noises.
What is Little Albert?
The theory that we learn social behavior by observing and imitating others.
What is social learning theory?
The remembered storyline of a dream (according to Freud), and the extent to which a psychological test samples the behavior it is intended to.
What is Manifest Content Validity?
In regards to his childhood memories, a freudian psychologist might say Charlie experienced this - a basic defense mechanism that banishes traumatic thoughts and feelings from consciousness.
What is repression?
This cell type supports, protects, and provides nourishment for neurons. They may also be involved in learning and thinking.
What are glial cells?
A 1971 social psychology study involving college students in a simulated prison environment. The experiment was cut short after only six days due to brutal mistreatment of participants.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
Said to be based partly on experience, expectations, motivation, and alertness, this theory assumes a person does not have a single "absolute threshold". Rather, detection of a weak signal depends on both signal strength AND current physiological state.
What is signal detection theory?
Piaget's final phase of cognitive development, and a common aversion to performing or public speaking adolescents may experience during this phase.
What is Formal Operational Stage Fright?
What is emotional intelligence?
This neural system is located below the cerebral hemispheres and includes the hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus. It is associated with emotions and drives.
What is the limbic system?
This developmental psychologist's theories focused on morality, explaining that throughout life people ascend a "moral ladder". The three levels of moral development include preconventional, conventional, and postconventional morality.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
The tendency for the first and last items in a sequence to be the most memorable. If being interviewed for a job, you may be at an advantage if you are one of the first or last candidates!
What is the serial position effect?
A principle that arousal increases performance up to a point (beyond which performance decreases), and the equation c2 = a2 + b2 − 2ab cos(C) students can use to find an unknown side or angle.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law of Cosines?
What is regression?