No, We're Not Talking About Your Mother
An Austrian neurologist, his theories on how humans seek pleasure throughout the lifespan were some of the most influential in developing the early fields of psychiatry and clinical psychology. To him, it seems we were always talking about your mother.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
If you've never heard this name, perhaps we should talk.
It's the thick bundle of neurons that joins the two hemispheres of the brain together.
What is the corpus callosum?
Know the hemispheres of the brain, the contralateral control, and the function of the corpus callosum.
The home of United States FIFTH Fleet, it's the small island nation in the Middle East where Dr. Bandermann served just prior to the Yard.
What is Bahrain?
Noradrenaline.
What is norepinephrine?
It's a condition that can be caused by catastrophic damage to the occipital lobe. Watch your head!
What is blindsight?
One of the Navy's four medical psychologists, he served as the first prescribing psychologists afloat aboard USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71), from 2018-2020 on an ill-fated WESTPAC deployment amid the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Who is Dr. Kyle Bandermann?
Know your people!
It's the lobe that is the last to develop--both evolutionarily and individually/developmentally.
What is the frontal lobe?
Know very well the lobes of the brain.
The biological origins of this phenomena can possibly be explained by the proximity of genitals to lower extremities in the psychosomatic cortex.
What are foot fetishes?
Statistical average.
What is the mean?
Know very well (and be able to pick-out in literature) descriptive statistics.
It's a song by 70s British rock band Queen that, when played in reverse, was thought to send a hazy message to the listener.
What is Another One Bites the Dust?
Unfortunately a proponent of eugenics, his positive contributions to the then burgeoning field of psychology include widescale measurement of humans to begin comparing abilities, which he termed "anthropometrics."
Who is Sir Francis Galton?
Located in the forward most part of the parietal lobes, just behind the motor cortex of the frontal lobes, this region contains a sort of "map" of the body to interpret the feeling in each of its parts.
What is the somatosensory cortex?
Rather than pharmacotherapy and building off of simple sleep hygiene, it's currently the gold-standard treatment for most types of insomnia.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-i)?
The University of Missouri,
and, separately,
The University of Tennessee.
What are Mizzou and RockyTop?
Know your professor.
It's the cognitive state of thinking something will happen that--when combined with the physiological effects of alcohol--creates one very sleepy group and one very raucous group (despite having different actual exposures to alcohol).
What is an expectancy?
Know the results of the BARLAB experiments.
A German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, he established the world's first psychological lab in Leipzig Germany in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
Review famous contributors to psychology from history.
It secretes melatonin to regulate sleep.
Irrespective of how spread out a data set is, in a normal distribution it's the representation of the group that contains about 95% of the data, on equal sides to the right and left of the mean.
What is two standard deviations?
Synaptic gap.
What is the synaptic cleft?
It's the largest--and ever-most-quickly-expanding--of the three domains of the trans-disciplinary model which look at the interconnection between factors that help explain Who Are You?
What is the sociocultural domain?
Know very well the biopsychosocial model.
He was the scientist responsible for discovering more about the neuromessaging of neurotransmitters based on his foundational experiments using frog hearts.
Who is Otto Loewi?
Know the foundational experiments of the electrical and chemical systems of neurotransmission and neuromessaging.
A part of the primary auditory cortex, it assists in the relative geolocation of sounds by interpreting infinitesimal differences in timing and intensity.
What is the inferior colliculus?
It's the four-letter abbreviation for the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressants that work by degrading the protein that ordinarily transports the neurotransmitter from the synaptic gap's receptor site back to the previous axon terminal.
What is an SSRI?
Myelin sheath (individual units).
What are Schwann cells?
It's the statistical test used to determine if there’s a significant association between two categorical variables in a sample data set or if the data are binary.
What is a Chi Squared?