Social Psych
The tendency to conform to the majority opinion, even if it goes against one's own beliefs.
What is conformity?
Neurotransmitter commonly associated with pleasure and reward.
What is dopamine?
Psychological disorder characterized by recurring intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors or mental acts.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Researcher who created a study pairing food with bell sounds to condition salivation from the sound of a bell in dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
The Rorschach Test is more commonly known as...
What is the inkblot test?
The tendency to engage in self-defeating behavior to prevent others from making unwanted inferences based on poor performance.
What is self-handicapping?
Major processing center for emotions; controls fear responses.
What is the amygdala?
Commonly associated with depression, this term describes the inability to experience joy or pleasure.
What is anhedonia?
Fake inmates and prison guards both got a mere $15 bucks a day to participate in Philip Zimbardo's infamous 1971 psychological experiment at this university.
What is Stanford?
This brain imaging technique measures brain activity by tracking blood flow.
What is fMRI?
Persuasion technique that involves making a large, unreasonable request first, followed by a smaller, more understandable request.
What is the door-in-the-face technique?
Part of the brain that is underdeveloped as children, causing lack of memory before the age of 2.
What is the hippocampus?
Delusion common with schizophrenia that one's thought is projected and perceived by others.
What is thought broadcasting?
What was the doll called in Bandura’s experiment on how children learn aggressive behaviors?
Bobo
Type of therapy that uses free association and dream analysis.
What is psychoanalysis?
Failure to recognize influences of situation on behavior, along with corresponding tendency to overemphasize disposition.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
Area of the brain is responsible for speech production.
What is Broca's area?
Psychological disorder when a person has a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as pain, weakness or shortness of breath, to a level that results in major distress and/or problems functioning.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
What type of animal was “Little Albert” exposed to in a psychological study by John Watson and Rosalie Rayner?
A white rat
Psychological complex that suggests that little girls are in psychosexual competition with their mothers for the love of their fathers.
What is the electra complex?
Gottman's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; behavioral predictors of divorce/separation in couples.
Quote associated with Hebbian Theory regarding learning and neural plasticity.
What is “Cells that fire together, wire together”?
Year of the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) publication.
What is 1952?
Known for his research on learned helplessness.
Who is Martin Seligman?
The literal translation of psychology in Greek.
What is the study of the soul? (Psyche = soul; logica = study, science)