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The Brain
Conditioning
History
Emotions, Stress and Illness
Social Thinking and Influence
100
The oldest and inner most region
What is the brainstem?
100
Associate two stimuli and anticipate events
What is Classical Conditioning?
100
Early school of thought promoted by Wundt and Titchener
What is Structuralism?
100
Theory that states emotions arise from our awareness of our specific bodily responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
What is James-Lange Theory?
100
Adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard
What is conformity?
200
The brains organ of agility
What is the cerebellum?
200
Learn to associate response and its consequence
What is Operant Conditioning?
200
Early school of thought process; explored how mental and behavioral processes function
What is Functionalism?
200
Three main types of stressors
What is Catastrophes, Significant Life Changes, Daily Hassles
200
Studied conformity and devised test by comparing line lengths
Who is Solomon Asch?
300
The system that contains the amygdala, hypothalmus, and the hippocampus
What is the Limbic System?
300
Psychologist who conducted the experiment that conditioned dogs to expect food after the ring of a bell
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
300
The first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D
Who is Margaret Floy Washburn?
300
The people that a prone to coronary heart disease
What are Type A people?
300
Tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when the group is attaining a common goal
What is Social Loafing?
400
Area at the front of the parietal lobes that registers and processes body touch and movement sensations
What is the sensory cortex?
400
In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning
What is a Neutral Stimulus
400
Psychology's historic big issue
What is nature vs. nurture?
400
Study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
400
Mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives
What is Groupthink?
500
The formation of new neurons
What is neurogenesis?
500
The man who created the Operant Chamber
Who is B.F Skinner?
500
Psychology's Three Main Levels of Analysis
What is the Biopsychosocial approach?
500
Isolated 10 basic emotions
What is joy, interest, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, and guilt
500
Theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the persons dispostion
What is the Attribution Theory?