Who's Who
He's famous for his ideas about the unconscious mind.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The ideas proposed by Charles Darwin about how animals (including humans) have changed over millions of years to improve survival.
What is evolutionary theory?
What scientists believe to be the most recently evolved area of the brain.
What is the neocortex/cerebral cortex?
What is egocentrism?
The name for our basic physiological stress response.
What is fight-or-flight?
The scientist whose dogs learned to salivate when they heard him ring a bell.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Albert Bandura's idea that children learn by watching other people.
What is social learning or observational learning theory?
The part of the brain responsible for feeling and regulating emotions.
What is the amygdala?
Our general sense of awareness.
What is consciousness?
Stress that continues for a long time without relief, potentially causing health issues.
What is chronic stress?
He is considered to be the founder of the first psychology laboratory.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The idea that the mind works like a computer.
What is cognitive processing theory?
The general region of the brain responsible for more basic animal functions like breathing, sleeping, and balance.
What is the hindbrain?
The "shortcuts" that our brains often take by applying our preconceived ideas to quickly process new information.
What are schemas?
A strategy for dealing with stress by doing something, such as studying for a test.
What is problem-focused coping?
He conducted experiments with rats and pigeons which gave us the concept of operant conditioning.
The ability to imagine what other people are thinking, which young children develop around the age of 7-8.
What is theory of mind?
The brain structure involved in memory storage and processing.
What is the hippocampus?
What is happening when someone is told by their teacher that they'll never be any good at math, so they don't bother studying for their math test, and they end up failing.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
The name of the body system that protects us from disease and which is often suppressed by stress.
What is the immune system?
They testified in the case of Brown v. Board of Education using evidence from their research.
Who were Kenneth and Mamie Clark?
The idea that our senses like vision or hearing are trying to differentiate the signal from the noise.
What is signal detection theory?
The neurotransmitter believed to play a role in conditions like Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
A person's belief that they can achieve something, for example, their ability to complete a health behavior.
What is self-efficacy?
The hormone associated with stress which goes through natural sleep/wake cycles.
What is cortisol?