Experiments
Psych Disorders
Serial Killers
Brain/Memory
Terms
100

Prisoners and guards were the two roles in this 6 day experiment

What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?

100

Characterized by Manic and Depressive phases.

What is Bipolar Disorder?

100

Lured women with his charm and good looks.

Who is Ted Bundy?

100

This lobe is at the back of the head, receives input from eyes.

What is the occipital lobe?

100

Attitudes towards people of different groups (race, gender, religion, etc)

What is prejudice?

200

A fake shock machine, teachers and learners, and obedience.

What is Milgram's Experiment?

200

Insomnia, flash-backs, nightmares are symptoms of this trauma induced disorder.

What is PTSD?

200

"Pogo the Clown"

Who is John Wayne Gacy?

200

This type of memory holds information for about 20 seconds

What is Short Term Memory?

200

Has no conscience, born this way.

What is a psychopath?

300

An experiment where one person was laid out in the street looking like they are in need was done to demonstrate what social psych effect?

What is the Bystander Effect?

300

Suffering from two or more personality states.

What is DID?

300

Known as the Milwaukee Cannibal

Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?

300

The ability to bring (a fact, event, or situation) back into one's mind; remember.

What is recall?

300

Parenting style that is high in warmth, low in demand

What is permissive?

400

The group not being experimented on.

What is control group?

400

Tapping the wall 20 times, redoing hair 40 times are examples of what.

What is OCD?

400
Something a killer uses to leave their mark on the crime.

What is a signature?

400

Controls our ability to transfer facts/events from short-term into long-term memory.

What is hippocampus?

400

Accepting your accomplishments, explaining away your failures

What is Self-Serving Bias

500

The variable being measured.

What is Dependent variable.

500

Remaining motionless, waxy flexibility

What is catatonic schizophrenia

500
Method or pattern of operating a crime

What is MO?

500

The real version of "photographic memory"

What is eidetic memory?

500

Psych perspective that explains behavior as a result of free will, the ability to grow and personal choice.

What is Humanism?

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