Medical Treatment
Lithium bicarbonate is frequently used to treat:
Bipolar Disorder
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum
When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts
What is psychoanalytic theory?
Who ran against George W. Bush in the 2000 election:
Al Gore
Name any brand of benzodiazipine:
Clozapine, Clozaril, Risperidone etc
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
Damage to the hippocampus would likely result in this condition:
What is amnesia
Learning from rewards and punishments is commonly known as:
Operant Conditioning
In golf, what is the term for a putter used off the green?
Wedge
These types of drugs increase the amount of endorphins in the brain. They are often abused as pain medications:
Opiates
The field of psychology dedicated to ensuring the moral treatment of human subjects in experimentation:
Ethics
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, and the hypothalamus
What is the limbic system?
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
What is Humanistic Theory
Who was the first NHL goalie to score a goal?
Billy Smith
Fully define the word SSRI
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
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?
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter?
Lawrence Kohlberg founded this theory
What is Theory of Moral Development?
Name any German general during WWII
Answers will vary
When a neuron draws back some of the chemicals it initially released into the synapse this is known as:
Reuptake
The female psychologist responsible for studying the misinformation effect is:
Elizabeth Loftus
This type of brain damage is characterized by the inability to produce language due to the obstructed movement of the jaw.
What is Broca's aphasia
Albert Bandura maintains that learning is facilitated by modeling and observational learning
What is social learning theory?
What was the name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb?
The Enola Gay