MPA
A nickname for the city that MPA is hosted in based on its weather.
What is the windy city?
This learning process maintains that behaviors are strengthened or weakened based on their consequences.
What is operant conditioning?
A type of relationship with someone in which there is a romantic connection, often involving time spent together, physical and sexual activity, but no clarity, label, or commitment.
What is a situationship?
The area of psychology that both Psi Chi faculty advisors do research within.
What is cognitive psychology?
Not smoking, Freud's other drug of choice.
What is cocaine?
The type of pizza served at Giordano's, the restaurant where the Psychology Department graciously paid for our meals.
What is deep dish pizza?
The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted in 1971 by this psychologist.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
This statistical test determines if the difference between the means of two unrelated groups is statistically significant.
What is an independent samples t-test?
The university where Dr. Wann received his PhD.
What is the University of Kansas?
This is the fattiest organ in the human body.
What is the brain?
This person photoshopped pictures from the Photo Circle in humorous ways.
Who is Entropy?
Lev Vygotsky developed this psychological concept, which describes the gap between what a learner can do independently and what they can achieve with guidance from a more knowledgeable other.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
In an experimental research design, manipulation and control of this allows for causal relationships to be established.
What is the independent variable?
This is the country of the study abroad program that Dr. Hackathorn is leading.
What is Ireland?
The word "psychology" comes from these two Greek words, meaning "soul" and "study," respectively.
What are psyche and logia?
The city where we boarded the train to Chicago, which boasted a newly renovated train station.
What is Carbondale?
This mental disorder affects roughly 1% or less of individuals world-wide and often emerges during adolescence or early adulthood.
What is schizophrenia?
This type of procedure is used to reduce bias by ensuring that neither the participants nor the researchers administering the treatment know who is in the experimental or control group.
What is double-blind?
This is the university that Psi Chi member, Chase Hendricks, will be attending for his Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
What is Northern Kentucky University?
She was the first woman to earn a PhD in Psychology.
Who was Margaret Floy Washburn?
Based on our Psi Chi research project this year, this was the only construct we looked at that did not show a significant difference between individuals in a committed vs non-committed relationship.
What is tolerance of ambiguity (or need for closure)?
Typically caused by a stroke or head trauma, the inability to comprehend or formulate language is derived from the Greek word for "speechless."
What is aphasia?
This psychological effect describes a type of behavioral reactivity in which research participants modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
These are the two minors of Psi Chi member, Jasmine Shafer.
What are Philosophy and Photography?
He will be your new Psi Chi President!
Who is Carson?