The Brain
The lack of this chemical is associated with Parkinson's Disease, while an abundance is associated with Schizophrenia.
What is Dopamine?
Psychologist who introduced the psychoanalytic theory of behavior.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The branch of Psychology concerned with the study and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Also the single largest discipline in Psych.
What is clinical psychology?
A clinically based approach to understanding and treating psychological disorders; assumes that that the unconscious mind is the most powerful force behind thought and behavior.
What is Psychoanalysis?
The total number of points you need by May 4th. (Assuming you aren't on probation.)
What is 5 points?
What was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors?
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter?
This man is known as the founder of Behaviorism.
Who is John B. Watson?
The branch of Psychology that blends psychology, law, and criminal justice.
What is Forensic Psychology?
A school of psychology that proposed that psychology can be a true science only if it examines observable behavior, not ideas, thoughts, feelings, or motives.
What is Behaviorism?
This is the officer you contact when you want to receive credit for being in a research lab.
Who is Cam?
This early onset experiment conditioned a young child to fear a white rat by pairing it with a loud noise.
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.
What is the Limbic System?
This Neo-Freudian is the founder of analytical psychology, and is known for his ideas of archetypes, collective unconscious, and individuation.
Who is Carl Jung
The branch of Psychology concerned with the study of what makes people unique and the consistencies in people's behavior across time and situations.
What is Social Psychology?
The most common theoretical orientation utilized in therapy. Combines two well known branches of Psychology, thus the name.
What is Cognitive Behavioral (Therapy)?
The room that Psi Chi meetings are typically held in.
Participants in this study were instructed to deliver increasingly intense electric shocks to another person, highlighting obedience to authority even when it conflicts with personal morals.
What is the Milgram experiment?
This structure coordinates voluntary movement and balance.
What is the Cerebellum?
This person is widely considered the "father of psychology", and is the first to open a research lab.
Who is Willhelm Wundt?
The branch of Psychology concerned with the application of psychological concepts and questions to work settings.
What is Industrial/Organizational Psychology?
A theory of psychology that focuses on personal growth and meaning as a way of reaching one's highest potential.
What is Humanistic Psychology?
The date that Psi Chi dues are due.
In this conformity experiment, individuals gave obviously incorrect answers about line lengths after hearing a unanimous group response.
What are the Asch Conformity Experiments?
Damage in this area of the brain causes damage in understanding the meaning of words.
What is Wernicke's area?
Psychologist best known for conceptualization of the stages of growth leading to personal fulfillment. Best known for his "hierarchy of needs" and humanistic theory.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This subfield of psychology examines how people make judgments about right and wrong, including how emotions, reasoning, and social context shape decisions.
What is Moral Psychology?
Branch of psychology that studies human behavior by asking what adaptive problems it may have solved for our early ancestors.
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
This was the theme of Psi Chi's last social held in February.
In this famous delay-of-gratification study, children were given the choice between one treat immediately or two if they waited, often involving a marshmallow.
What is the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment?