Pop Psychology Myths
In relationships, ________ attract
Opposites
This famous (& controversial) psychologist founded psychoanalysis and studied the conscious and unconscious mind.
Sigmund Freud
This lobe of the brain is considered our behaviour and emotional control centre and home to our personality.
Frontal lobe
Focuses on how people change and grow throughout life. This area of psychology seeks to understand and explain how and why people change.
Developmental Psychology
When we try to adopt a neutral standpoint towards what is observed we are being
Objective
This debunked theory suggests that individuals prefer one way of learning and processing information (visual, auditory, kinetic..)
Learning Styles
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Stanley Milgram
This lobe of the brain is the major visual processing centre in the brain.
Occipital Lobe
This branch of Psychology seeks to understand and explain social behavior. It looks at diverse topics including group behavior, social interactions and perceptions, leadership, nonverbal communication, and social influences on decision-making.
Social Psychology
A testable prediction in science
A hypothesis
Autism was thought to be caused by
Vaccines
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Philip Zimbardo
This lobe of the brain is involved in processing sensory information, particularly important for hearing, recognising language, and forming memories.
Temporal Lobe
Deals with issues related to psychology and the law. Those who work in this branch apply psychological principles to legal issues. This may involve studying criminal behavior and treatment or working directly in the court system.
Forensic Psychology
An experiment in Psychology could include an ____ and ____ variable.
An independent variable (the cause) is manipulated in an experiment, and the dependent variable (the effect) is measured.
When people grieve they go through how many stages
Five stages of grief
This psychologist is known for his famous “Bobo doll” experiment as well as his concepts of self-efficacy and his social learning theory
Albert Bandura
A small but complex brain structure that plays an important role in the process of learning and the formation of new memories.
Hippocampus
The branch of psychology concerned with the assessment and treatment of mental illness, abnormal behavior, and psychiatric disorders.
Clinical Psychology
Interviews, focus groups, and observations are types of ______ methods
If you are "left-brained" you are logical, analytical, and detail-oriented, while "right-brained individuals" are..
Creative, emotional, and intuitive etc.
This psychologist famously used dogs for his work in classical conditioning, which influenced the rise of behaviorism in psychology.
Ivan Pavlov
A small, almond-shaped structures, located under each half (hemisphere) of the brain and included in the limbic system. It regulates emotion and memory and is associated with the brain’s reward system, stress, and the “fight or flight” response.
Applies psychological principles to workplace issues. This psychological area seeks to improve productivity and efficiency in the workplace while maximizing the well-being of employees.
Organizational/Industrial Psychology
An area of philosophy concerned with what knowledge is and where it comes from
Epistemology