When one's expectations somehow draw out, or in a sense cause, the very behavior that is expected.
What is a Self-fulfilling Prophecy?
100
Individual modes of responding to the environment that appear to be consistent across situations and stable over time.
What is temperament?
100
This relatively new technology allows researchers to see which areas of the brain light up while participants perform a variety of activities.
What is fMRI?
100
A disorder marked by persistent and excessive feelings of anxiety and worry about numerous events and activities.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
100
This figure is most famous for his personality theory, which placed great importance on unconscious motivations.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
Common error to think that the actions of others result from internal dispositions rather than the power of the situation.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
200
The understanding that objects have substance, maintain their identities when they change location, and ordinarily continue to exist when out of sight.
What is object permanence?
200
These two almond-shaped areas within the limbic system influence agression and fear.
What are the amygdalae?
200
Name the disorder that is characterized by periods of elevated or irritable moods (mania) followed by periods of depression?
What is Bi-polar disorder.
200
American psychologist who expanded on the ideas of Pavlov and founded the school of behavioralism.
Who is John B. Watson?
300
This researcher showed that healthy college students can slip into victim/opressor roles very quickly in his prison simulation.
Who is Zimbardo?
300
Distress that babies show when the person to whom they are attached leaves.
What is separation anxiety?
300
This brain lobe is mostly active during visual perception.
What is the occipital lobe?
300
A mental disorder in which patients frequently have a hard time differentiating between real and unreal experiences and lack normal emotional responses?
What is schizophrenia
300
Known as the founder of psychology, because he founded the first official psychology laboratory, at the University of Leipzig in 1879, and because he began the first psychology journal.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
400
Tendency to believe after the fact that you knew something all along.
What is Hindsight bias?
400
American linguist who proposed the existence of a language acquisition device, or LAD.
Who is Noam Chomsky?
400
This language impairment is caused by left hemisphere damage to either Broca's or Wernicke's areas.
What is aphasia?
400
Electric shock therapy was once frequently used to treat what mental disorder?
What is Depression
400
Best know as the founder of ethology, was famous for his work with imprinting in ducklings.
Who is Konrad Lorenz?
500
Tendency for the presence of others to either enhance or hinder performance.
What is Social Facilitation?
500
This major figure in the shaping of developmental psychology coined the term adolescence, and was the first president of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Who is Stanley Hall?
500
Chemichals that carry signals from one neuron to another across a synapse.
What is a neurotransmitter?
500
SRI's also known as Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors are used to treat what disorders?
What is Depression, OCD, panic disorders, and anxiety disorders
500
American psychologist famous for his creation of the client-centered therapy, with unconditional positive regard at its core.