Psychology
A method to cause a reflex response or behavior by training with repetitive action.
What is Pavlovian conditioning?
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What is classical conditioning?
An irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and, eventually, the ability to carry out simple tasks. Caused by beta-amyloid plaques which form toxic aggregates in the brain, impeding neural communication.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
This brain lobe is responsible for sense of touch, pain and temperature.
What is the parietal lobe?
Earned her Ph.D. in human development from Cornell University and joined the Hofstra faculty in 2003. She teaches undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Psychology, Child Development, Research Methods, and the Research Seminar in Developmental Psychology. Her main research interests are in the area of cognitive development, specifically focused on scientific reasoning in children and adults.
Who is Dr. Masnick?
A Russian physiologist best known in psychology for his discovery of classical conditioning.
Who is Pavlov?
The current version of the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic and classification guidelines for mental disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM V)
A disorder characterized by a long-standing disregard for rules, social norms, and the rights of others. People with this disorder typically begin displaying symptoms during childhood, have difficulty feeling empathy for others, and lack remorse for their destructive behaviors.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Located in the floor of the third ventricle and is the master control of the autonomic system. It plays a role in controlling behaviors such as hunger, thirst, sleep, and sexual response. It also regulates body temperature, blood pressure, emotions, and secretion of hormones.
What is the hypothalamus?
Earned her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2006. Famously known as BIO12 professor. She studies metacognition, and her husband is also a faculty member at Hofstra!
Who is Dr. Santangelo?
His experiments showed that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, subsequently becoming the foundation of modern genetics and leading to the study of heredity.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Named for a psychoanalyst, this error in speech is said to reveal one's unconscious thoughts.
What is a "Freudian slip?"
A chronic, progressive disease involving damage to the myelin sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms include numbness, and impairment of muscular coordination.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
Known as the “master gland,” it controls other endocrine glands in the body. It secretes hormones that control sexual development, promote bone and muscle growth, and respond to stress.
What is the pituitary gland?
Earned her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2013. She specializes in developmental cognitive neuroscience, and teaches undergraduate courses including introductory psychology, behavioral neuroscience, and statistics. Her research investigates risky decision-making in adolescents and young adults.
Who is Dr. BL?
A German neuroanatomist and physiologist, and the father of phrenology. He was also one of the early pioneers in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain.
Who is Franz Gall?
Debate involving the extent to which particular aspects of behavior result from either inherited or acquired influences.
What is nature vs nurture?
A rare disease caused by inherited defect in a single gene which results in gradual degeneration of the caudate and putamen. Symptoms include: jerking movements, memory lapse, and depression.
What is Huntington's Disease?
Includes the caudate, putamen and globus pallidus. These nuclei work with the cerebellum to coordinate fine motions, such as fingertip movements.
What is the basal ganglia?
Earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2010. She is an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, teaching courses in Sensation & Perception, Research Methods, and Cognition, as well as Behavioral Neuroscience on occasion. Her research interests include spatial cognition, spatial memory, perceptual decisions, describing cognitive deficits and addressing cognitive deficits in a tailored way.
Who is Dr. Ploran?
A French chemist and microbiologist whose work changed medicine. He proved that germs cause disease; he developed vaccines for anthrax and rabies; and he created the process of pasteurization.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This school of psychology with a German name emphasizes whole, not partial, differences.
What is Gestalt?
A rapidly progressive, invariably fatal neurological disease that attacks the neurons responsible for controlling voluntary muscles. The upper motor neurons and the lower motor neurons degenerate or die.
What is Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)?
An upper brain stem structure containing nuclei that relay signals from the forebrain to the cerebellum, along with nuclei that deal primarily with sleep, respiration, swallowing, equilibrium, taste, eye movement, facial expressions, facial sensation, and posture.
What is the pons?
Earned her Ph.D. from UT Austin in 2005. Courses taught include; Hormones and Behavior, Brain, Behavior and Evolution and Intro to Neuroscience II. She studies the neurobiological, genetic and hormonal regulation of mate choice and maternal behaviors in female songbirds and amphibians
Who is Dr. Lynch?
Often called the father of neuroscience. He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine in 1906 for his theory that became known as the neuron doctrine. His drawings illustrating the arborizations of brain cells are still in use for educational and training purposes.
Who is Santiago Ramón y Cajal?