M-Psychology Unit 2A

Every psychological event is also a biological event. True False The specialty in Psychology that studies the interaction of biology, behavior, and the environment is: Cognitive Psychology Biopsychology Humanism The central control unit of our bodies: The Hippocampus The Brain The Amygdala This document recorded the first time that the term 'brain' was utilized as well as contained the oldest known descriptions of signs and symptoms of injuries to the spinal column and spinal cord: Edwin Smith Papyrus The average size of the male brain is: 2.95 This part of the brain that is most strongly linked with memory is typically larger in women: Hippocampus This part of the brain appears to self-cannibalize and sits right above the brain stem, regulating a variety of functions which includes sleep, body temperature and thirst: Hypothalamus This person is a well documented case that had an injury to the brain in 1848 in which a tamping iron went through his head. He survived the injury and was reported to have an extreme personality shift which helped us to begin to understand the frontal lobe. Who is it? Phineas Gage What is the idea that bumps on the skull could reveal mental abilities and aspects of one's character? Phrenology This person developed a method called Cranioscopy which morphed into Phrenology. He also contributed to the concept of 'localization' in which different parts of the brain do different functions: William Freeman Roger Sperry Franz Joseph Gall This hemisphere of the brain controls the left half of the body and tends to be more analytic. The right hemisphere The left hemisphere The right hemisphere of the brain tends to be more holistic. True False The pathway that connects the cerebral hemispheres and sends messages back and forth between the hemispheres is known as: Occipital Lobe Thalamus Corpus Callosum The Stroop Effect is our tendency to experience ease in naming a physical color when it is used to spell the name of a different color. True False The function of this part of the brain includes problem solving and planning as well as behavior control" Frontal Lobe Temporal Lobe Occipital Lobe This part of the brain transfers new memories from short term to long term and controls spatial orientation: Brain Stem Temporal Lobe Hippocampus The function of this part of the brain is language and speech as well as memory. Temporal Lobe Frontal Lobe Parietal Lobe The reticular activating system is located in the midbrain. True False Which part of the brain contains the medulla, pons, and the cerebellum? Forebrain Midbrain Hindbrain The cerebral cortex, limbic system, and hypothalamus is located in this section of the brain: Forebrain Midbrain Hindbrain Two almond shaped structures located in the temporal lobe and controls emotion, aggression, and processing of emotional memory is known as: Amygdala The bat-wing shaped building design for insane asylums was known as: Kirkbride System What was the main problem with typical insane asylum including the Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum that would lead to an increase in violence? (One word could answer this question) Overcrowding A surgical severance of nerve fibers connecting the frontal lobes to the thalamus to treat mental illness is called: Lobotomy This is the only known form of therapy still in use today to treat mental illness that is controversial and induces seizures causing amnesia and migraines: Electric Shock Therapy This form of therapy to treat mental illness used hot and cold water delivered in a variety of ways: Hydrotherapy Warm or hot water was utilized to treat manic depressive people as well as those patients that were agitated or excited with Hydrotherapy in mental institutions. True False Patients with schizophrenia were the target group for insulin shock therapy. True False What was the first psychotropic drug utilized for mental patients in the 1950's that would replace the other methods of therapy that you learned in class: Thorazine What is the movement that is aimed at improving the genetic composition of the human race: Lobotomy Leucotomy Eugenics The term Eugenics was first used in 1883 by: Oliver Wendell Holmes JH Kellogg Francis Galton This infamous court case led to the first person to be sterilized in Virginia under the new law and also contributed to the sterilization of thousands of US citizens with mental illness or developmental disabilities: Buck v. Bell Relf v. Weinberger Jane Doe v. State of Colorado This act was voted on by the Senate in December of 2015 to help surviving victims of forced sterilization that was performed through government sponsored eugenics programs that often performed the procedure without the individual's consent or knowledge: Eugenics Compensation Act What part of the brain is believed not to be fully developed until the age of 25? Frontal Lobes Corpus Callosum Brain Stem What term means the capacity of brain cells to change in response to extrinsic and intrinsic factors? This term refers to the brain's ability to experience, learn, modify and change while creating new connections between neurons when new information is learned through repetition. Transplasticity Neuroplasticity Bio-plasticology What US state passed the first sterilization law in 1907? Indiana Georgia South Carolina