Freudian Psych
Crazy Experiments
Neuropsych
AP Psych
Riddles
100

Freud believed this kind of slip reveals hidden thoughts or feelings.

What is a Freudian slip?

100

This experiment simulated a prison environment and was shut down early due to ethical concerns.

What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?

100

This chemical messenger plays a major role in movement and reward.  

What is dopamine?

100

The group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment is called this.

What is the control group?

100

This effect explains why people are less likely to help when others are around.

What is the bystander effect?

200

This part of Freud’s model works as the mediator, balancing desires with reality.

What is the ego?

200

This long-term study of identical twins raised apart found that genetics plays a significant role in personality and intelligence.

What is the Minnesota Twin Study?

200

This brain imaging technique measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

What is fMRI?

200

The most basic level of Maslow’s hierarchy includes this category of needs.

What are physiological needs?

200

This part of your brain is the reason you scream during a horror movie — it’s the center of fear and emotion.

What is the amygdala?

300

According to Freud, this part of your mind wants what it wants right now.

What is the id?

300

In this attachment study, infant monkeys preferred soft cloth “mothers” over wire ones that provided food.

What is the Harlow Monkey Experiment?

300

The corpus callosum connects these two parts of the brain.

What are the left and right hemispheres?

300

In an experiment, this variable is manipulated by the researcher.

What is the independent variable?

300

When two things rise and fall together — or move in opposite directions — but one doesn’t cause the other, you’re seeing this statistical illusion.

What is correlation?

400

Freud used this method to access the unconscious by having patients say whatever came to mind.

What is free association?

400

This baby was conditioned to fear white rats by John Watson.

Who is Little Albert?

400

This part of the brain is responsible for higher-order thinking and decision-making.

What is the prefrontal cortex?

400

This type of conditioning involves learning through rewards and punishments.

What is operant conditioning?

400

B.F. Skinner would be proud if you kept pressing a lever for food — that’s this kind of conditioning in action.

What is operant conditioning?

500

Freud's part of personality that is made up of the conscience and the ideal self.

What is the superego?

500

In this obedience study, participants thought they were delivering shocks to a stranger.

What is the Milgram experiment?

500

Damage to Broca’s area affects this ability.

What is speech production?

500

This perspective in psychology emphasizes free will and self-actualization.

What is the humanistic perspective?

500

You believe plane crashes happen often because you just saw one on the news. You’ve fallen for this heuristic.

What is the availability heuristic?


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