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Psych 101
100

This disorder is characterized by persistent excessive worry about multiple areas of everyday life. 

What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?

100

What Pixar movie features Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust?

Inside Out

100

In this type of therapy, a therapist works with multiple individuals experiencing similar challenges in the same session.

What is group therapy?

100

This neurotransmitter is heavily involved in reward, motivation, and movement.

What is dopamine?

100

This psychologist is famous for experiments in which dogs learned to salivate in response to a bell or other conditioned stimulus.

Who is Ivan Pavlov?

200

This disorder involves obsessions and repetitive behaviors or mental rituals performed to reduce distress. 

What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?

200

When consumers assume a physically attractive celebrity endorser is also trustworthy, intelligent, and honest, they are demonstrating which cognitive bias frequently exploited in advertising?

The Halo effect

200

This therapy uses gradual, repeated contact with feared situations to reduce avoidance and fear. 

What is exposure therapy?

200

This brain region is particularly important for processing threats and emotionally significant stimuli.

What is the amygdala?

200

This psychological phenomenon occurs when someone experiences improved performance simply because they believe a treatment will help, even if the treatment contains no active ingredient.


What is the placebo effect?

300

After a traumatic accident, someone experiences nightmares, flashbacks, avoidance, and hypervigilance for several months.

What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?

300

In Mean Girls, Regina George uses peer pressure and social influence to control her classmates. This term describes changing behavior to fit in with a group.

What is conformity?

300

This therapy uses creative expression, such as drawing, painting, or sculpting, to explore emotions.

What is art therapy?

300

This neurotransmitter is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the adult brain.

What is GABA?

300

This type of reinforcement increases a behavior by removing an unpleasant stimulus.

What is negative reinforcement?

400

A person avoids parties and class presentations because they fear being judged, embarrassed, or negatively evaluated by others.

What is social anxiety disorder?

400

In The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper freqeuntly displays rigid routines and difficulties with social cues, traits sometimes associated with this neurodevelopmental condition. 

What is autism spectrum disorder?

400

This therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. 

What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?

400

Damage to this part of the frontal lobe can impair planning, judgment, and decision-making.

What is the prefrontal cortex?

400

This phenomenon occurs when people are less likely to help someone in need when other people are present.

What is the bystander effect?

500

This mood disorder is characterized by episode of mania and, in many cases, depression. 

What is bipolar 1 disorder?

500

In Finding Nemo, Dory experiences difficulty forming new long-term memories, resembling this type of amnesia. 

What is anterograde amnesia?

500

This therapy encourages clients to speak freely about thoughts and feelings, often exploring unconscious conflicts and early experiences.

What is psychoanalytic therapy?

500

This membrane protein uses ATP to transport three sodium ions out of a neuron and two potassium ions into the neuron, helping maintain the ion gradients necessary for electrical signaling.

What is the sodium-potassium pump?

500

This cognitive bias involves attributing other people's behavior to personality while underestimating situational influences.

What is the fundamental attribution error?

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