The unconscious part of personality that operates on the pleasure principle.
What is the Id?
100
This phenomenon was revealed in Asch's study of small groups with a line estimation task that was designed to be extremely easy.
What is conformity?
100
The debate between the effect of innateness and environmental influences on development.
What is nature versus nurture?
100
Disorder in which patient constantly interprets normal body functions as physical disorders.
What is hypochondriasis?
100
The branch of psychology that studies mental processes including problem solving, perception, memory, and learning.
What is cognitive?
200
This psychologist conducted the famous shock experiments showing obedience
Who is Milgram?
200
A compliance method in which the persuader requests a small favor and then follows up with requesting a larger favor.
What is the foot-in-the-door technique?
200
The psychologist that created the theory of cognitive development which includes four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
Who is Piaget?
200
People 18 to 25 are vulnerable to mental illnesses like this, a term used in place of "manic depression" to describe those whose moods cycle between extremes.
What is bipolar disorder?
200
The tendency to think that we would have foreseen the outcome, once the outcome is revealed.
What is the hindsight bias?
300
This school of psychology with a German name emphasizes whole, not partial, differences.
What is Gestalt?
300
People are less likely to help in an emergency situation when others are present, as occurred during the murder of Kitty Genovese.
What is the bystander effect?
300
This theory, originally developed by John Bowlby, focuses on open, intimate, emotionally meaningful relationships between child and parent.
What is attachment?
300
These false beliefs might be of grandeur or of persecution.
What are delusions.
300
The "functional" type of this, MRI for short, shows we use all of our brain, not just 10%.
What is magnetic resonance imaging?
400
Psychologist who performed the Bobo doll study of observational learning.
Who is Albert Bandura?
400
This occurs when individuals perform better in front of an audience.
What is social facilitation?
400
Noam Chomsky is most known research in this area of child development.
What is language?
400
Therapy that eliminates a behavior by pairing it with an unpleasant stimulus.
What is aversive conditioning?
400
Neither the subject nor the experimenter knows what condition the subject is in.
What is a double blind study?
500
This psychologist founded the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
500
Theory that states that we act to reduce discomfort caused when thoughts and actions don’t align
What is cognitive dissonance?
500
This reflex can be seen when the infant feels they are falling they will throw their arms out.
What is Moro?
500
This neurotransmitter is most closely associated with the symptoms of depression.
What is serotonin.
500
The part of the inner ear containing the hair cells