Psych 101
This branch of psychology focuses on how people think, remember, learn, and solve problem.
What is cognitive psychology?
Known as the founder of psychoanalysis, he emphasized the unconscious mind and famously used the id, ego, and superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This disorder involves persistent, excessive worry about multiple areas of everyday life.
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
This organ is the main control center of the nervous system.
What is the brain?
You smell a certain perfume and suddenly remember someone who used to wear it. This is an example of this mental process.
What is memory association?
This type of reinforcement adds something desirable to increase a behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
His famous experiments involved dogs, bells, and learning through association.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Depression and bipolar disorder belong to this general category of psychological disorders.
What are mood disorders?
This brain structure is heavily involved in fear and processing emotional significance.
What is the amygdala?
You hear a song you haven’t heard in years, and it suddenly brings back a specific memory. The song is acting as this.
What is a retrieval cue?
This famous hierarchy includes physiological needs, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
This psychologist developed the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Someone with this disorder experiences obsessions, compulsions, or both.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
This lobe of the brain is strongly associated with planning, decision-making, impulse control, and personality.
What is the frontal lobe?
After buying an expensive pair of shoes, you start focusing on all the reasons they were worth the money to convince yourself you made the right choice. This psychological experience is called what?
What is cognitive dissonance?
When people change their behavior or beliefs to match those of a group, psychologists call it this.
What is conformity?
This psychologist conducted the famous Bobo doll experiment on observational learning and aggression.
Who is Albert Bandura?
Hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking are commonly associated with this disorder.
What is schizophrenia?
This neurotransmitter is heavily involved in reward, motivation, and movement.
What is dopamine?
Everyone in your group gives an obviously wrong answer, and you give the same answer just to fit in.
What is conformity?
In classical conditioning, this is a previously neutral stimulus that eventually produces a learned response.
What is a conditioned stimulus?
This psychologist's controversial obedience experiments had participants believe they were delivering increasingly powerful electric shocks to another person.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This personality disorder is characterized by a long-term pattern of unstable relationships, intense emotions, fear of abandonment, and an unstable sense of self.
What is borderline personality disorder (BPD)?
This brain structure helps transfer new explicit memories into long-term storage and is especially important for forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
You fail a test and blame the professor, but when another student fails, you assume they didn’t study hard enough. This bias involves overestimating personality and underestimating the situation when judging others.
What is the fundamental attribution error?