Name That Perspective
This psychological perspective focuses on how our genes and brain chemistry influence our behavior.
What is the biological perspective?
This major lobe at the back of the head is primarily responsible for processing visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
This term means the brain's ability to change, adapt, and rewire itself after damage.
What is plasticity?
This is an understood rule for accepted and expected behavior within a specific group.
What is a social norm?
This type of psychologist applies psychological principles to legal issues, such as helping police with profiles or testifying in court.
What is a Forensic Psychologist?
This perspective emphasizes the unconscious mind, childhood experiences, and repressed desires.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
Known as the "sensory headquarter," this egg-shaped structure directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cortex.
What is the Thalamus?
This is the tendency to search for information that supports your preconceptions and ignore contradictory evidence.
What is Confirmation Bias?
This is the tendency to adjust your behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
What is conformity?
This professional treats severe mental disorders and differs from a psychologist because they hold a medical degree (MD) and can prescribe medication.
What is a Psychiatrist?
This perspective focuses on free will, self-actualization, and reaching your full potential.
What is the humanistic perspective?
This "fear center" of the brain plays a huge role in processing emotions like fear and aggression.
What is the Amygdala?
This phenomenon makes an event seem predictable after it has already occurred—often called the "I knew it all along" phenomenon.
What is Hindsight Bias?
This mode of thinking occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides realistic alternatives.
What is Groupthink?
This therapist works with couples and nuclear units to help resolve conflicts, improve communication, and fix relationship dynamics.
What is a marriage and family counselor?
This school of thought exclusively studies observable, measurable behaviors and how we learn them through rewards and punishments.
What is the behavioral perspective?
This master gland of the endocrine system is controlled by the nearby hypothalamus.
What is the pituitary gland?
This is a mental shortcut or "rule of thumb" that helps you make quick decisions, though it can lead to mistakes.
What is a Heuristic?
This is a generalized, often oversimplified belief about a group of people.
What is a stereotype?
This medical professional specializes in treating physical disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system, like strokes or epilepsy?
What is a Neurologist?
This psychological perspective explains social behavior, like choosing a mate or cooperating in a group, as survival advantages passed down from our ancestors.
5 BONUS POINTS if you can name the law/theory this perspective follows
What is the evolutionary perspective?
BONUS POINTS:
What is Darwins Law/What is the theory of natural selection
This thick band of neural fibers connects the left and right brain hemispheres and carries messages between them.
What is the corpus callosum?
This is the tendency to recall the first and last items on a list better than the items in the middle.
BONUS POINTS If you can name the definition of the tendency to recall only the first, or too recall only the last items. 5 points for each!
What is the Serial Position affect?
BONUS POINTS:
What is the Primacy affect?
What is the Recency affect?
This is the unselfish concern for the welfare and well-being of other people. involves performing acts or exhibiting behaviors that benefit another individual or society, often at a personal cost or risk.
What is Altruism?
This type of psychologist applies psychological concepts to workplaces to help companies improve employee productivity and morale.
What is an industrial-organizational psychologist?