Personality
Neurobiology
Research Methods
Social Psychology
Harry Potter Psychology
100
These use self-deception to combat feelings of guilt & anxiety.
What are defense mechanisms?
100
All sensory signals except for the olfactory signals must go through this brain structure.
What is the thalamus.
100
IQ, age, weight, grade point average, and income are examples of these.
What are variables?
100
This is the term for yielding to real or imagined social pressure.
What is conformity?
100
Hermione has to overcome this in Book 1 when she has to light a fire but doesn't have any wood.
What is functional fixedness?
200
This is Freud's term for when the brain deliberately buries painful memories to protect the mind from harm.
What is repression?
200
This brain structure controls emotions such as joy, fear, and anger.
What is the amygdala?
200
This is the type of variable that is manipulated by the experimenter.
What is the independent variable?
200
To resolve prejudice psychologists may cause clients to reach a state where related cognitions are inconsistent or contradict one another.
What is cognitive dissonance?
200
Harry has to ask Slughorn about horcruxes because Slughorn has in-depth information regarding Dark Magic. Slughorn's knowledge could be described by term that is used to describe an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event.
What is a schema?
300
This is Freud's term for when someone fails to move on to the next psychosexual stage.
What is fixation?
300
This structure controls homeostasis (i.e. eating, drinking, and body temperature control)?
What is the hypothalamus?
300
This type of research involves an in-depth investigation of an individual subject.
What is a case study?
300
Evolutionary psychologists would say that we view members of these groups in terms of negative stereotypes.
What are outgroups?
300
During a the third year at Hogwart's students are asked to select courses that will lead them down their career paths. By the end of a wizard's teenage years (i.e. at 17) the students are supposed to have a firm idea of who they are and what they want to become. Erikson had a particular name for the crisis encountered in the adolescent stage.
What is identity versus confusion?
400
This is Jung's term for our collection of ancestral memories that are passed from generation to generation.
What is the collective unconscious?
400
If this is removed you will have difficulties with forming memories.
What is the hippocampus?
400
This is a concise summary of a journal article and is presented at the beginning of the article.
What is an abstract?
400
People who are physically attractive are viewed as ________ than less attractive people.
What is more friendly, well adjusted, and competent?
400
Luna Lovegood can be described as a nonconformist who is daring, tries new things, has a wide range of interests, and is extremely imaginative. The five-factor model of personality would describe Luna as this.
What is high in openness to experience?
500
This term describes what happens during final exam week when students begin to whine, cry, and act very babyish, MUCH younger than they actually are.
What is regression?
500
These cells insulate, nourish, and direct the growth of neurons.
What are the glia?
500
These three types of research do not allow researchers to manipulate the variables under the study.
What are naturalistic observation, case studies, and surveys?
500
If you show up for class in your Sailor Moon cosplay gear, and you see another student who has also come to class cosplaying Sailor Moon, the two of you would consider each other a part of the same what?
What is ingroup?
500
In Book 3, when Hermione slaps Draco Malfoy for making fun of Hagrid (he was very upset about his hippogriff's potential execution) she acted out of impulse-driven rage. Freud would say that Hermione was powered by this term, the component of personality that is entirely unconscious.
What is the id?
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