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This psychologist is known for his theory of cognitive development, which includes stages such as the preoperational and concrete operational stages.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This psychological disorder is categorized by extreme mood swings between mania and depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
This psychological disorder is characterized by intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors performed to reduce anxiety.
What is OCD?
The branch of Psychology concerned with the application of psychological concepts & questions to work settings.
What is Industrial/Organizational Psychology?
This psychologist is known as the “father of psychoanalysis”
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This humanistic theory proposes that individuals must satisfy basic physiological and safety needs before achieving love, esteem, and ultimately self-actualization.
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
This psychologist is known for his “Little Albert Experiment” and is the founder of behaviorism.
Who is Jean B. Watson?
This is the process of converting information into memory.
What is encoding?
This part of the limbic system regulates emotions (e.g. fear and aggression).
What is the amygdala?
This statistical concept refers to the likelihood that a research finding occurred by chance (often set at .05).
What is the p-value?
In sports psychology, mentally rehearsing a performance before doing it is called this.
What is visualization?
According to Albert Bandura, people can learn new behaviors simply by watching others. This is called:
What is observational learning?
This type of motivation comes from internal enjoyment rather than external rewards like trophies.
What is intrinsic motivation?
This neurotransmitter is commonly associated with pleasure and reward.
What is dopamine?
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 chemical released during exercise is often called the body’s “natural painkiller.”
What are endorphins?
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is cerebellum?
This region of the cerebral cortex is responsible for hearing and language.
What is temporal lobe?
The branch of Psychology concerned with the study of how living among others influences thought, feeling, and behavior.
What is Social Psychology?
The scientist best known for his work regarding evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This psychological concept refers to the ability to bounce back after failure, risks, trauma, or injury.
What is resilience?
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated.
What is quasi experimental?
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
This type of validity refers to whether a psychological measure appears, on the surface, to assess what it claims to measure, even though it does not guarantee that the test actually measures the construct accurately.
What is face validity?