Founding Fathers
This Austrian neurologist developed psychoanalysis and popularized ideas about the unconscious mind, defense mechanisms, and the importance of early childhood experiences.
Sigmund Freud
This key concept describes the discomfort we experience when our beliefs and behavior do not line up.
Cognitive Dissonance
This mental-health professional is a medical doctor who can diagnose mental disorders and prescribe medication.
Psychiatrist
This belief suggests that people who are very different from each other are naturally more romantically attracted to one another.
opposites attract
Some people report being unable to voluntarily create mental images.
Aphantasia
This Swiss psychiatrist developed the concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious, and his ideas helped form the field of analytical psychology.
Carl Jung
This describes how people may be less likely to intervene when others are present.
The Bystander Effect
This psychologist specializes in assessing, diagnosing, and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, often using psychological testing and psychotherapy.
Clinical Psychologist
This popular belief says that this moon phase causes people to behave more strangely or commit more crimes.
Full-moon
Certain sounds—often chewing, tapping, breathing, etc.—can trigger intense emotional reactions.
Misophonia
In 1879, this German scholar established what is widely considered the first laboratory dedicated specifically to experimental psychology, helping psychology emerge as a distinct scientific discipline.
Wilhelm Wundt
This describes why our performance can change when other people are watching.
Social Facilitation
This psychologist applies psychology to workplaces, including things like employee selection, training, motivation, organizational behavior, and workplace systems.
Industrial-Organizational Psychologist
This belief says that handwriting can reveal someone's personality or psychological traits.
graphology
This is considered the opposite end of the imagery spectrum from aphantasia, involving exceptionally vivid mental imagery.
Hyperphantasia
This American psychologist studied how consequences shape behavior and became one of the best-known figures in behaviorism and operant conditioning.
BF Skinner
This theory suggests that our early relationships can influence later relationships.
Attachment Theory
This professional may help clients navigate mental health services, housing, healthcare, financial assistance, and other community resources.
*Social Worker*
This common claim suggests that venting your anger by yelling, hitting something, or otherwise “letting it out” will reliably make you feel better.
catharsis
This term describes “Face blindness” or difficulty recognizing familiar faces despite otherwise normal vision.
Prosopagnosia
This humanistic psychologist is best known for a theory of human motivation often depicted as a five-level pyramid, with self-actualization at the top.
*Abraham Maslow*
This describes why we notice or value information that supports what we already believe.
Confirmation Bias
This mental health professional applies psychological knowledge in legal contexts, such as assessment, treatment, or consultation related to courts and the justice system.
Forensic Psychologist
This claim says that people have one preferred way of learning—such as visual, auditory, or kinesthetic—and learn best when taught in that style.
learning-styles
This sensory experience can automatically trigger another, such as consistently experiencing certain numbers as particular colors.
Synesthesia