Famous Psychologists
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts
What is psychoanalytic theory?
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is are neurotransmitters?
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal dispositions or external situations
What is Attribution theory?
The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.
What is amnesia?
Founded the first psychology lab in the world
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This term describes individuals who derive pleasure from causing others pain or distress.
What is sadism?
Cues in a research setting that may lead participants to behave in a way they believe is expected, or to guess the study's purpose and act accordingly
What are demand characteristics?
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
What is humanistic theory?
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.
What is the limbic system?
The polygraph is designed to detect deception by measuring changes in this bodily system.
What is the autonomic nervous system?