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Known as the founder of psychoanalysis, he introduced concepts like the unconscious mind, defense mechanisms, and talk therapy.
Who is Sigmund Feud?
This experiment discovered classical conditioning by showing that dogs learn to associate a neutral signal with food until the signal alone triggers salivation.
What is Pavlovs Dog Experiment?
This affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves, often causing hallucinations or delusions.
What is Schizophrenia?
This is inside the brain's temporal lobes that process emotions, trigger survival responses, and help form emotional memories
What is the Amygdala?
This assessment uses the interpretation of ink blots to assess personality.
What is the Rorschach tests?
He was a Russian physiologist whose research on conditioned reflexes influenced the rise of behaviorism in psychology.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
He was an English biologist, geologist, and naturalist who is best known for his theory of evolution by natural selection.
This is the most common type of anxiety disorder.
What are Phobias?
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is Cerebellum?
Dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine are examples of these chemical messengers.
What are neurotransmitters?
His stage theory of psychosocial development helped create interest and research on human development through the lifespan.
Who is Erik Erikson?
In this experiment, Philip Zimbardo put healthy college students into a fake prison. Some were guards, and some were prisoners. The guards became cruel very fast, and the prisoners became stressed. The test showed how quickly people act out assigned social roles.
What is Stanford Prison Experiment?
People diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder are also known as this.
What are psychopaths or sociopaths?
This lobe processes sensory input like sounds and faces, helps form long-term memories, and allows us to understand language
What is the Temporal Lobe?
Who introduced Hierarchy of Needs?
Who is Abraham Maslow?
A pioneer in developmental psychology, he mapped out the stages of cognitive growth in children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This 1961 Stanley Milgram study at Yale University required participants to administer escalating fake electric shocks to a "learner" whenever they gave a wrong answer.
What is the Milgram experiment?
A temporary change in identity, usually in response to extreme stress.
What is dissociative disorder?
This dense core structure deep in the temporal lobe is responsible for the consolidation of short-term memory into long-term memory
What is the hippocampus?
The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
What is nature-nurture ?
A leader in behaviorism, he discovered operant conditioning and showed how rewards and punishments shape behavior.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist who founded analytical psychology. He was a prolific author and illustrator who pioneered experimental research techniques and psychoanalysis. He is best known for his concepts of archetypes, introversion and extroversion, and the collective unconscious. He believed that humans have a unique personality shaped by life experiences, interactions, and unconscious thoughts.
Who is Carl Jung?
A common chronic problem that affects twice as many women as men and leads to considerable impairment.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
What is used to provide a pathway for cerebrospinal fluid inside the brain?
What is the function of the cerebral aqueduct?
This cluster of personality disorders includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders, characterized by odd or eccentric behavior.
What is Cluster A?