Psychobiological Flashcards
Hans Selye
(Accidentally) described General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
Carl Wernicke
An area of the brain (in the left temporal lobe) involved in language comprehension and expression was named for him because he discovered it
Charles Darwin
His idea, the genetic composition of a species can be altered through natural selection, has had a lasting impact on psychology through the evolutionary perspective
Phineas Gage
His survival of a horrible industrial accident taught us about the role of frontal lobes
(Not rly a psychologist)
David Hubel & Torsten Weisel
Two nobel prize winning neuroscientists who demonstrated the importance of “feature detector”
Neurons in visual perception
Roger Sperry
Like Gazzaniga, studied split brain patients; showed that left/right hemispheres have different functions
Dorothea Dix
American activist who successfully pressured lawmakers to construct and fund asylums for the mentally ill
Paul Broca
The part of the brain responsible for coordinating muscles involved in speech was named for him, because he first identified it
Thomas Bouchard
Studied identical twins separated at birth
Walter Mischel
Offered famous critique of trait theory and its claims
Jerome Kagan
Conducted longitudinal studies on temperament (infancy to adolescence)
Ancel Keys
Conducted semi-starvation experiments to measure psych effects of hunger
Michael Gazzaniga
Conducted the “HE-ART” experiments with split brain patients
Francis Galton
Interested in the link between heredity and intelligence; founder of the eugenics movement
