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What does CBT stand for?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov is most famous for conducting experiments using what animals?

Dogs

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What is the name of the famous prisoners and guards experiment that took place at an American University?

The Stanford Experiment

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What connects the two sides of the brain?

Corpus Callosum

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Humans perceive pain and ____ via very similar sensory mechanisms.

Heat

200

What's the "Inkblot test" also known as?

Rorschach Test

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When was modern Psychology established?

19th century

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What did the Bobo experiment find?

Children learn behaviors from observing other

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What does the eye's lens do to the orientation of the visual image?

It turns it upside down

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The _____ _____ is what Freud describes when a boy develops an unconscious infatuation towards his mother, and simultaneously fears his father to be a rival.

Oedipus complex

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Today, what are Hypochondriasis Disorders better known as?

Somatic Symptom Disorder

300

Who coined the term "tabula rasa"?

John Locke

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Using a 9-month-old baby, what did University Professor Dr. John. B. Watson prove with The Little Albert Experiment?

That classical conditioning could be used to create a phobia.

300

To the closest pound, how heavy is the average adult brain?

Three pounds

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What is "catching" a yawn thought to signify?

Empathy

400

High-functioning autism used to be known as what?

Asperger syndrome

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Who founded Psychoanalysis (talking therapy)?

Sigmund Freud

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Psychologist Solomon Asch conducted notable experiments in the 1950s. What did he demonstrate that people would do to fit in with peers?

Provide blatant wrong answers

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What do you call it when a blood vessel in the brian bursts or suddenly becomes clogged?

Stroke

400

What type of humor indicates a healthy brain?

Sarcasm

500

How many classifications of schizophrenia are there?

5 (catatonic, disorganized, paranoid, residual, and undifferentiated)

500

What is the name of Sigmund Freud's groundbreaking book on psychology?

Interpretation of Dreams

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How did 3 researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School arguably wholly overstep the mark in 1969 with a psychology study?

They got Macaque Monkeys addicted to drugs to study the effects.

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How many cells are in the average human brain? (____ billion)

86 billion neurons

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No person born blind has ever developed what mental health disorder?

Schizophrenia

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