Clinical Psychology
What does CBT stand for?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov is most famous for conducting experiments using what animals?
Dogs
What is the name of the famous prisoners and guards experiment that took place at an American University?
The Stanford Experiment
Corpus Callosum
Humans perceive pain and ____ via very similar sensory mechanisms.
Heat
What's the "Inkblot test" also known as?
Rorschach Test
Who formed the hierarchy of needs?
Abraham Maslow
Name the two broad categories of research used in psychological studies.
Qualitative and quantitative
The process by which sensory receptors convert various forms of stimulus energy into electrical impulses that can be interpreted by the brain is known as what?
Transduction
The _____ _____ is what Freud describes when a boy develops an unconscious infatuation towards his mother, and simultaneously fears his father to be a rival.
Oedipus complex
Name 1 of the 2 disorders that were removed from the anxiety disorder section of the DSM and reclassified into different sections when the DSM-5 was published.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Considered “founder” or “father” of psychology, he created the first formal lab for research in psych @ University of Leipzig.
Wilhelm Wundt
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.
To the closest pound, how heavy is the average adult brain?
Three pounds
What does "DSM" stand for?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
High-functioning autism used to be known as what?
Asperger syndrome
Sigmund Freud
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
In which lobe of the brain is the somatosensory cortex located?
Parietal lobe
"Catching a yawn" is said to demonstrate what psychological phenomenon?
Empathy
In what year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?
1973
What is the name of Sigmund Freud's groundbreaking book on psychology?
Interpretation of Dreams
What is the name of the research study interested determining the extent to which individuals would obey authority figures, even when those orders conflicted with their own moral beliefs?
The Milgram experiment (Milgram Shock Experiment; Milgram Obedience Experiment)
How many cells are in the average human brain? (____ billion)
86 billion neurons
No person born blind has ever developed what mental health disorder?
Schizophrenia