Mind Games
This experiment took Californian college students and had them act as inmates and correctional officers.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This part of the neuron receives signals.
What is the dendrite?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This disorder is characterized by hallucinations, flat affect, and delusions
What is Schizophrenia?
This pyramid is meant to display people's intrinsic needs that need to be fulfilled.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Ivan Pavlov used this animal in his experiments on classical conditioning.
What are dogs?
This, with the brain, makes up the central nervous system.
What is the spinal cord?
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This refers to when someone has difficulty parting with possessions, leading to clutter that interferes with daily life.
What is Hoarding Disorder?
This bias refers to people's ability to best remember the most recent information presented (like the last item on a list)
What is Recency Bias?
This is the name used for the baby boy James Watson tested classical Conditioning on?
What is Little Albert?
This lobe is tasked with language processing and speech.
What is the temporal lobe?
This man came up with the concept of stages of childhood development, starting with the sensorimotor stage.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This disorder is characterized by experiencing unexpected, recurrent intense flashing periods of fear or discomfort.
What is Panic Disorder?
This effect refers to how people are more likely to agree to a large request if you first get them to agree to a small request.
What is the foot-in-the-door effect?
This is what participants in Stanley Milgram's Obedience experiments thought they were administering to other participants.
What are electrical shocks?
This part of the brain is heavily involved with memory and learning.
What is the hippocampus?
This woman conducted experiments to prove the unreliability of eyewitness testimony
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
This disorder is characterized by shifts from periods of intense mania to intense depression
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This syndrome is where people with a developmental disorder, like autism, exhibits extraordinary abilities in specific areas, such as mathematics, music, or art.
What is Savant Syndrome?
Mary Ainsworth was testing this in her "Strange Situation" experiments involving babies, their mothers, and a stranger.
What are attachment styles?
This part of the brain connects the two hemispheres.
What is the Corpus Callosum.
This psychologist is known for his research into behaviorism, put rats in a box with different stimuli to condition them.
This disorder is characterized by a pattern of disregard for others’ rights, often shown by deceitful, manipulative, and sometimes criminal behavior.
What is AntiSocial Personality Disorder
This effect is where if someone has one positive trait (like attractiveness), people are more likely to assume they have other positive traits (like kindness)
What is the Halo Effect?