Spooky Psych
Research Methods & Experiments
The Brain
Theories
FSU Psychology
100
A potential symptom in schizophrenia; an irrational and persistent feeling of being watched, followed, or persecuted. 

What is paranoia?

100
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated.
What is quasi experimental?
100

This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language.

What is Broca's aphasia?

100

Albert Bandura's theory maintains that learning is facilitated by modeling and observation.

What is social learning theory?

100

These are all the research sections conducted in the Psychology Research department.

What are cognitive, clinical, social, neuroscience, and developmental?

200

This psychological trait measures an individual's interest in potentially dangerous events and circumstances. Hint: was presented on last year by Vinny Olivett

What is Morbid Curiositiy?

200
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
200
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum
200

The theory that states behavior is rooted in subconscious desires and that the human psyche has 3 parts, the id, ego, and superego. 

What is psychoanalytic theory?

200

These furry friends have made themselves very familiar with this part of campus.

What are the psychology building cats?

300

In sleep paralysis, this terrifying sensation is often described as accompanying the inability to move.

What is the feeling of an "evil presence"?

300
The tendency of participants to act differently from normal in a research study because they know they are being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
300
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter?
300

This theory contains 4 parts; sensorimotor preoperational, concrete, and formal operational.

What are Piaget's stages of Cognitive Development?

300

This faculty member is the undergraduate chair of the Psychology department.

Who is Dr. Orenda Johnson

400

This subfield of psychology is the study of alleged psychic and paranormal phenomena like telepathy, reincarnation, and precognition. 

What is parapsychology?

400

This animal was used in an unethical experiment conducted by this psychologist that examined the maternal relationship between what kind of animal by using comfort and food as the two variables.

What are Harlow's monkeys?

400
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.
What is the limbic system?
400

This kind of learning caused Little Albert to become scared of all white fluffy animals.

What is classical conditioning?

400

This specific room number houses the the FSU psychology advising office.

What is PDB A209?

500

The phenomenon where someone is convinced that a loved one has been replaced by an imposter.

What is Capgras Syndrome/Delusion? 

500
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
500
The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.
What is amnesia
500
People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal dispositions or external situations
What is Attribution theory?
500

The complete name of this program allows students to further study a topic under the guidance of a professor here at the university for credit.

What is Directed Individualized Study?

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