General
What is a medicine called that has no physical effect?
A placebo
How many stages of psychosocial development did Developmental Psychologist and Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson maintain that a person had to go through to develop their personality?
8
What is an ACE?
Adverse Childhood Experiences
What type of humor indicates a healthy brain?
Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov is most famous for conducting experiments using what animals?
Dogs
What is one of the biggest questions that child psychologists attempt to answer?
What does The Behaviorist Theory believe all behaviors are learned through?
Interactions with the environment.
What does 'The Big Five' refer to in psychology?
The 5 main personality traits (agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, openness, and neuroticism)
How many days will it take an average individual to make something a daily habit?
66
Using a 9-month-old baby, what did University Professor Dr. John. B. Watson prove with The Little Albert Experiment?
That classical conditioning could be used to create a phobia.
What is one of the most referenced theories in child development?
The Piaget theory.
What does The Psychodynamic Theory help people to look at?
Their subconscious mind.
What does Dx mean?
Diagnosis
What percentage of the time does the average person's mind wander?
30%
What did the Bobo experiment find?
Children will learn and mimic aggression by observing adult behavior.
In what century was The Birth of Modern Psychology?
18th century
Which Psychologist's teachings helped to establish psychology as a science and is frequently referred to as the father of American psychology?
William James
What would Munchausen Syndrome be termed when concerning a caregiver?
Munchausen by proxy.
How long could it take someone to be convinced that they committed a crime as an adolescent?
3 hours
Which 1971 social experiment traumatized 3 participants so much they were withdrawn within the first 4 days?
Standford Prison Experiment
What did Neuroscientist James Fallon accidentally discover he was after studying his own brain scans?
A psychopath
Which influential psychologist's work supported the belief that not all mental illnesses have physiological causes?
Sigmund Freud.
What does ACT-R stand for?
Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational
According to Paul Reber, Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, how many gigabytes can the human brain store?
Approx 2,500,000 gigabytes.
Psychologist Solomon Asch conducted notable experiments in the 1950s. What did he demonstrate that people would do to fit in with peers?
Provide blatant wrong answers