Known as the father of modern psychology and psychoanalytics.
This structure of the eye connects it to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
The lobe of the brain responsible for decisions, personality, and impulse control.
What is the frontal lobe?
The process where certain animals form strong attachments during early life.
What is imprinting?
In Pavlov's experiment, the bell became this kind of stimulus.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
Who is Pavlov?
This type of processing helps you understand what you see based on background and context.
What is top-down processing?
This part of the brain controls emotions like fear and anger.
What is the amygdala?
The periods of life during which exposure to certain stimuli impacts normal development.
What are critical periods?
This type of conditioning pairs a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus.
What is classical conditioning?
Created a hierarchy of needs with self-actualization at the top.
Who is Maslow?
The ability to focus on one stimulus among many.
What is selective attention?
The fiber that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum.
The type of parenting combines authoritarian and permissive parenting.
What is authoritative?
This type of conditioning uses positive and negative reinforcement and punishment.
What is operant conditioning?
His experiments showed psychologists the effects of operant conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Commonly used in movies and advertisements to have a stimuli unconsciously impact your cognition.
What is subliminal messaging?
The part of the brain responsible for motor skills and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
Her observations on child development help studies on attachment bonds.
Who is Mary Ainsworth?
The reinforcement to eventually reach a desired behavior.
His Line experiment showed the effects of social influence and conformity.
Who is Asch?
Our sense of position regarding our body and its parts.
What is kinesthesia?
What is plasticity?
The name of the final two stages in Kohlberg's development theory.
When a behavior is no longer shown after reinforcement stops.
What is extinction?