Famous Experiments
This classical conditioning experiment involved a baby, a white rat, and loud noises to study fear responses.
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
These chemicals (e.g., dopamine, GABA) pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What are neurotransmitters?
The Stanford Prison Experiment was led by this psychologist and tested the effects of situational roles on behavior.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and catatonia.
What is schizophrenia?
This psychologist helps students with learning, behavior, and emotional problems in educational settings.
What is a school psychologist?
This experiment examined the behaviors of babies when their mothers left and reentered the room.
What is Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation?
The brain structure responsible for the brain’s fight or flight reaction.
What is the amygdala?
A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill and was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses, and insane asylums.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
A group of psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes.
What are mood disorders?
People in this career help others facing challenges by assessing their needs, providing counseling and support, and connecting them to necessary resources to improve their well-being and circumstances.
What are social workers?
In this experiment, researchers gave African American children dolls that differed in skin color. The findings of self-hatred in African American children were used as evidence in the Supreme Court case Brown v Board.
What is the Kenneth and Mamie Clark Doll Experiment?
This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language, both written and verbal.
What is Broca’s aphasia?
This psychologist's theory of cognitive development shaped the understanding of children's intellectual growth.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This disorder is characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight paired with a refusal to maintain adequate nutrition and severe loss of body weight.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This psychology career focuses on workplace behavior, including employee productivity and organizational efficiency.
What is an industrial-organization psychologist?
This "animal" was used to test people's selective attention in a test conducted by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
What is the invisible gorilla?
Developed by Ernst Weber, this concept measures the smallest detectable difference between two similar stimuli.
What is the Just-Noticable Difference (JND)?
In 1903, Harvard famously refused to award this woman a PhD in Psychology because of her gender, despite peer recognition and significant contributions to the fields of memory and dreams.
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
In bipolar disorder, this is characterized by having four or more episodes of mania, hypomania, or depression in a year.
What is rapid cycling?
A specialist centered on how psychology, biology, and behavior influence wellness, illness, and overall health. They work with clients to help maximize well-being and improve both mental and physical health.
What is a health psychologist?
This experiment found that we make assumptions about people's skills based on unrelated qualities (e.g., thinking someone is smart because they are attractive).
What is the Halo Effect Experiment?
The most common form of red-green colorblindness where a person is missing M-Cones.
What is deuteranopia?
This psychologist is the father of positivism, a school of thought that states all knowledge is based on the “positive" data of experience and anything beyond is that of pure logic mathematics.
Who is August Comte?
People with this mental disorder feel as though they have become detached from their own mind or body. Their mind seems to be floating a few feet above them.
What is depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPDR)?
A psychologist in this field studies how humans interact with machines and technology to improve usability and efficiency. For example, they may research how to decrease eye strain when using a computer.
What is an engineering/human factors psychologist?