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Do You Know Your PCC Professors
100
When a drug's effect decreases after a person is repeatedly exposed to a psychoactive drug.
What is tolerance?
100
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
100

This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"

What is the cerebellum?

100

When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts

What is Psychoanalytic Theory?

100

teaches Introductory Psychology and Research Methods in Psychology

Who is Professor Shayda Jalali?

200
The three major categories of psychoactive drugs. Note: To get full credit, you need all three!
What are depressants, stimulants and hallucinogens?
200
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
200

The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.

What is amnesia?

200

People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal dispositions or external situations

What is Attribution Theory?

200

teaches Introductory Psychology and Statistics for Behavioral and Social Sciences

Who is Professor Stella Sakhon?

300
This narcotic drug that leads to physiological dependence and the development of tolerance; derivatives are morphine, heroine, and codeine.
What is opium?
300
A research finding that appears to be universally true across cultures, as opposed to a finding that is only valid within a given culture.
What is an etic?
300
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?
300

Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow

What is Humanistic Theory?

300

teaches Introductory Psychology,

Social Psychology,

and Chicano/a Psychology

Who is Professor Jesus Serrano-Careaga?

400
A stimulant, this drug has the potential for both a psychological and physiological dependence. This drug boosts mental alertness, reduces the need for sleep, induces a pleasurable rush, and causes a loss of appetite.
What are amphetamines?
400
The tendency of participants to act differently from normal in a research study because they know they are being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
400
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter?
400
Lawrence Kohlberg founded this theory
What is Theory of Moral Development?
400

teaches Introductory Psychology,

Developmental Psychology: The Child,

and Statistics for Behavioral and Social Sciences

Who is Professor Christina Nicolaides?

500
A Neurological disorder resulting from excessive use of antipsychotic drugs. Side effects can occur months to years after treatment has initiated or has stopped. Hint: Spelling doesn't count!
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
500
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated.
What is quasi experimental?
500

This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language (think Tell-Tale Brain!)

What is Broca's aphasia?

500

Albert Bandura maintains that learning is facilitated by modeling and observational learning

What is Social Learning Theory?

500

teaches Introductory Psychology and Abnormal Psychology

Who is Professor Teejay Brown?