The Human Brain
This "executive center" of the brain manages complex everyday behaviors, planning, and decision-making.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
Clinicians and researchers use this field manual, currently in its 5th edition, to maintain a common language for diagnosing mental conditions.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?
Proposed by J.M. Macdonald in 1963, the homicidal triad consists of animal cruelty, persistent bed-wetting (enuresis), and this childhood obsession.
What is pyromania (fire-setting)?
Mary Shelley was only 18 years old when she began writing this classic gothic novel about a scientist and his creature.
What is Frankenstein?
What popular "TT-RPG" does Mr. Warren play weekly?
Dungeons and Dragons
Located just above the brain stem, this "Emotion Center" is responsible for regulating fear, anxiety, and fight-or-flight responses.
What is the Amygdala?
Psychopathy is not classified as a diagnosable mental illness, but rather as a collection of these.
What are personality traits?
Ekbom Syndrome involves this fixed belief, often experienced by cocaine addicts during withdrawal as "cocaine bugs".
Formication
Introduced in 1907, these small, foil-wrapped chocolate drops got their name from the sound or movement of the machine making them.
What is a Hershey's Kiss?
Mr. Warren has 4 tattoos that come from this Nickelodeon original series
Avatar the Last Airbender
Acting as the brain's "regulatory center," this structure controls body temperature, thirst, hunger, and heart rate, producing the "effect" side of brain interactions.
What is the Hypothalamus?
Characterized by distinct personality states, memory gaps, and dissociation, this severe disorder functions as a coping mechanism to protect against trauma.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
While a hallucination is a sensory experience without external stimulus, a delusion is defined as this.
What is a fixed, false belief resistant to reason or fact?
Ichabod Crane is stalked by the Headless Horseman in Washington Irving's classic short story set in this New York village.
What is Sleepy Hollow?
What is Mr. Warren's favorite Halloween candy?
Kit-Kats
This type of psychologist is called upon to evaluate a patient's mental fitness to stand trial and apply psychological expertise to legal proceedings.
What is a forensic psychologist?
Kleptomania, pyromania, and trichotillomania belong to this category of conditions defined by difficulty controlling behaviors.
What are Impulse Control Disorders?
This clinical term describes a suspect intentionally faking or exaggerating psychological symptoms to avoid trial or receive a reduced sentence.
What is malingering?
An animal companion believed to assist a witch in their magic, frequently taking the form of a black cat, toad, or owl.
What is a familiar?
What is Mr. Warren's favorite book?
The Hobbit
In addition to Fight and Flight, these four reactions complete the six recognized trauma responses to external threats.
What are Freeze, Fawn, Fine, and Faint?
This childhood behavioral disorder is characterized by persistent angry moods, temper tantrums, rule defiance, and hostility toward authority figures.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)?
"The Chosen One," "The Hidden Genius," and "The Secret Celebrity" are common archetypes of this delusional symptom
What are Delusions of Grandeur (Grandiose Delusions)?
Linus spends all night sitting in a pumpkin patch hoping for a visit from a holiday icon in this classic 1966 Peanuts special.
What is the Great Pumpkin?
In a game of Warren's Civilization, how much would it cost to purchase 4 squares of land and 2 tanks?
$500