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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

True or False: 

About 90% of brain development takes place by age five.7


True

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

How long can visual information stay in short-term memory?

About 20 - 30 seconds

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

While the brain makes up just 2% of our overall weight, how much of our energy does it take up?

20%

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

Being in love is biochemically identical to having what mental health disorder?

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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

The effect that states that unfinished or interrupted tasks tend to stay in our memory more vividly than completed tasks, causing a mental itch to complete them.


Zeigarnik's effect