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Up to its fifth edition and still shorter than "War and Peace." That's the American Psychiatric Association's "DSM-5." What quantitative things do the "D" and "S" stand for?

Diagnostic and Statistical 

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In the famous marshmallow test, what psychological term describes a person's ability to postpone immediate satisfaction for a larger future reward

Delayed Gratification 

100

This Ken Kesey novel, later turned into a movie, is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

100

This Austrian psychologist used abreactions, the process by which a patient vividly relives repressed memories linked to past events, to help patients with their pathologies.

Sigmund Freud

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The "Big Five" is a well-known suggested taxonomy for personality traits that has been developed through psychological trait theory since the 1980s. The grouping is occasionally known as OCEAN. Name each of the 5 traits

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism

200

What is the minimum degree requirement for a school psychologist in the U.S.? 

Master's
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This psychologist controversially investigated obedience using electric shocks at Yale University

Stanley Milgram

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In 1849, an iron rod was accidentally driven through the head of a railroad worker, destroying his left temporal lobe. What was the name of the man whose resulting personality change is considered a landmark in understanding brain psychology? 

Phineas Gage

300

The MMPI is a standardized psychological test that assesses personality traits and psychopathology. What does the first "M" in MMPI stand for?

Minnesota

300

This 20th century psychologist, the child of a famous psychoanalyst, expanded upon the way in which psychology can be applied to children, such as in "Indications for Child Analysis" published in 1956

Anna Freud

300

Ancient Greeks created some of the earliest manuscripts about mental health disorders, including the 4th-century BCE musings of what man who theorized that physiological abnormalities may be the cause of mental health conditions 

Hippocrates

400

During a clinical assessment, a psychiatrist may use an imaging technique known as a PET scan to look at the brain. What does PET stand for?

Positron Emission Tomography

400

In 2018, this much-decorated Team USA Olympic athlete went public on the benefits of therapy in an advertising campaign for the app Talkspace

Michael Phelps 

400

This psychologist and professor organized an infamous experiment that took place at Stanford University, demonstrating the corrupt and violent depths students would go to when given authority in a fake prison

Philip Zimbardo

400

Which renowned Swiss psychologist published their first scientific research paper before hitting puberty at just 10 years old?

Jean Piaget

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Who was the first woman to earn a doctoral degree in psychology? She went on to study animal behavior and motor theory and was the second female president of the APA.

Margaret Floy Washburn

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