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This area of the brain is the largest in humans (relative to other mammals) and is divided into 4 lobes
What is the cerebral cortex
This famous study was an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
What is Milgrams Obedience study?
The part of the brain that is responsible for heart beat and blood pressure
What is medulla oblongata
The lobes that represent vision
What are the occipital lobes
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
This part of the brain connects the two hemispheres
What is the corpus collosum
Considered the person who started experimental psychology with the first lab in Germany and wrote an important textbook
Who is wilhelm wundt ?
This area regulates weight, thirst, hunger and sexual activity
what is the hypothalamus?
What is frontal lobes?
A research study in which both the experimenter and the subjects don't know who is receiving the treatment or experimental condition
What is a double blind study?
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, among other structures
What is the limbic system?
This approach is about helping people to achieve a level of 'nirvana' or the highest self concept after all other 'needs' have been met. assumes the best of people
What is Humanistic Theory
This area is involved as a relay station sending messages from the brain stem to areas in the cortex
what is the thalamus
This is the area just above the ears that process sound/auditory information (right hemisphere) and language (left)
What are the temporal lobes?
This area of the brain is responsible for sensations including pain and situated on the top of the cerebral cortex.
What are the parietal lobes?
assuming that understanding people is all about observing behavior and what is "empirically" visible
What is Behaviorism
This area regulates breathing and sleep
what is the pons
This area of the brain is responsible for speech output/production and is in the left fronto-temporal area
What is Broca's area
In this study students were praised for not stuttering and punished or criticised for stuttering causing them lifelong harm
What is the monster study?
This area is responsible for the comprehension of language and is located in the rear area of the left temporal lobe.
What is Wernicke's area
These psychologists do not have a medical degree but help people with clinically diagnosed mental health issues in a therapeutic setting
What is clinical psychology
This area is large in certain animals like mountain goats as its reponsible for maintaining balance and timing. Also called "little brain"
What is the cerebellum