Basic Psychology
The definition of psychology
What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?
Psychologist credited with creating the idea of conditioning
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This is what is commonly tested in experiments
What is a hypothesis?
The process in which a person's or animal's old response becomes attached to a new stimulus
What is classical conditioning?
Famous serial killer residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who tried to plea not guilty by reason of insanity
Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?
A new group of psychology focused on athletes
What is sports psychology?
A famous psychoanalyst that focused on the unconscious mind; having his own pop culture subclass of psychology
Who is Sigmund Freud?
A common way for psychologists to collect data is through _____
What is surveys?
The experiment used by Pavlov to understand conditioning used a ___ and a ___ to show conditioning
What is dog and bell?
Famous serial killer based in the Pacific Northwest who is famously thought to be one of the best examples of psychopathy
Who is Ted Bundy?
What is prescribe medicine?
Psychologist who established the first psychology laboratory in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The overarching idea that governs the principles behind psychological research
What is ethics?
A stimulus or event that follows a response and increases the likelihood that the response will be repeated
What is reinforcement?
The percentage of not guilty by reason of insanity defenses that are accepted, resulting in a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict
What is 1%?
There are ____ divisions of the APA
What is 52?
This psychologist taught the first class in psychology at Harvard University in 1875
Who is William James?
A change in a patient's illness or physical state that results solely from the patient's knowledge and perceptions of the treatment
What is the placebo effect?
Positive punishment refers to the action of _____ something to _____ behavior
What is adding, decrease?
Mental disease believed to have been had by Clauddine Blanchard; a key part of the Gypsy-Rose Blanchard trial
What is Munchausen by Proxy?
The type of psychology that focuses on how we store, process, and use information to influence thinking, language, problem solving, and creativity
What is cognitive psychology?
Two psychologists who performed the Little Albert experiment
Who are John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner?
What are measures of statistical significance?
On Halloween, you knock on people's doors and they answer. You say "Trick or Treat" and they give you candy in your bucket. What is the UCS, UCR, CS, and CR?
What is UCS:knocking on the door, UCR:opening the door, CS:trick or treat, CR:give candy.
Mental disorder that is highly debated in psychology and is questionable when used in a court of law
What is dissociative identity disorder?