This disorder is characterizes by one or more of the following: repetitive behaviors, ritual washing, counting, a germ phobia, and recurring thoughts.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
100
This is a tactic that uses intimidation to prevent crime.
What is deterrence?
100
Science has long realized this tendency for all experimental participants to improve or react to treatment.
What is the placebo effect?
100
An exaggerated, distorted, or oversimplified image applied to a category of people.
What is a stereotype?
200
This classification of drugs includes alcohol and opiates.
What is a depressant?
200
This mental disorder is characterized by the unwanted re-living of traumatic memories.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
200
This type of non-violent crime is committed by high-status people in the course of their occupation.
What are white-collar crimes?
200
This is the experimental variable that the experimenter manipulates or changes to observe the effect.
What is the independent variable?
200
Treating people differently based on ethnicity, race, religion, gender, or culture.
What is discrimination?
300
Examples include Ritalin and Adderall.
What are amphetamines?
300
Also known as affective disorders, this classification of mental disorders includes dysthemic disorder and depression.
What are mood disorders?
300
This term describes the occurrence of a past offender returning to prison.
What is recidivism?
300
These are the three types of descriptive studies - they are used when experimentation is difficult or impossible.
What are naturalistic observation, surveys, and case studies?
300
the preferential treatment people give to those whom they perceive to be members of their own groups.
What is in-group bias?
400
These drugs mimic the actions of neurotransmitters to deliver similar effects in the nervous system.
What is an agonist?
400
This disorder characterizes a person who (usually due to severe trauma) can't access personal memories and suddenly and unintentionally travels away from home.
What is dissociative fugue?
400
The sociological theory that states that deviance exists when there is a gap between culturally desired goals and means.
What is strain theory?
400
This group of experimental participants receives the placebo.
What is the control group?
400
The automatic and unconscious preference for certain groups of people that is learned and created in the neural pathways.
What is implicit prejudice?
500
This type of drugs block neurotransmitters in the nervous system.
What is an antagonist?
500
This classification of trauma-linked disorders includes hypochondria and conversion disorder.
What are somatoform disorders?
500
This term, coined by sociologist Emile Durkheim, is the social condition in which norms are weak, conflicting, or absent.
What is anomie?
500
The tendency to look for data that supports our preconceived hypotheses, and avoid data and contradicts our assumptions.
What is confirmation bias?
500
This term describes unfair practices that grow out of common behaviors and attitudes that are a part of the structure of society.