Psych 101
Lagomarcino Hall
Rhyme time
Psychology Icons
Getting an “A” in psychology
100

An outcome produced by this action is not implied by correlation

What is causation?

100

Psychology students share Lagomarcino Hall with this slightly redundant sounding discipline

The School of Education

100

A major sections of the cerebral cortex question

What is a lobe probe?

100

He teaches PSYCH 1010 at Iowa State University and is the faculty advisor for the Psychology Club

Who is Dr. Hessling?

100

This emotion causes a sense of dread, and excessive amounts can be concerning.

What is anxiety?

200

This toy was used in Albert Bandura’s now classic experiments exploring social learning theory

What is the Bobo doll?

200

This type of flowering tree, pictured here, can be seen as you enter Lagomarcino Hall

A magnolia tree

200

A fancy bell-shaped curve

What is a formal normal?

200

This pipe-smoking psychologist wrote about dream interpretation and the unconscious mind

Who is Sigmund Freud?

200

The part of the brain’s limbic system is a major processing center for emotions and evaluates situations to produce the correct response. 

What is the amygdala?

300

A type of projective test pictured here

What is the Rorschach test

300

If you study in Lagomarcino hall you might be able to name is unique sound

What is the door to the basement of Lagomarcino Hall?

300

A board used to file down your recollection

What is an emery memory?

300

For his studies in the early 20th century, this Russian scientist is considered the pioneer of classical conditioning

Who is Ivan Pavlov?

300

Also known as availability bias, this psychological concept states people make decisions based on whatever is most easily accessible in their memory.

What is the availability heuristic?

400

This collection of personality traits is referred to as the Big Five and can be recalled using the acronym OCEAN

What are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism?

400

This college was originally housed in Lagomarcino

What is the College of Veterinary Medicine?

400

Summing up a paired stimulus and response

What is an addition condition?

400

This psychologist is best known for creating the hierarchy of needs

Who is Abraham Maslow?

400

This baby was subjected to an experiment about phobias and classical conditioning, where he was exposed to loud noise paired with a white rat 

Who is Little Albert?

500

It’s a molecule that increases a neurotransmitter’s action; the protagonist if you will.

What is an agonist?

500

Lagomarcino Hall was named after this man, the first dean of the College of Education whose name he shares with Dante’s guide through Hell in Inferno.

Virgil Lagomarcino

500

Related to the body directly under the roof

What is a somatic attic? 

500

This psychologist pioneered the controversial Stanford prison experiment and demonstrated the power of the situation

Who is Philip Zimbardo?

500

You met this professor at our first meeting of the semester, and he is best known for teaching PSYCH 4400.

Who is Dr. Armstrong?

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