Basic Psychology
Psychology is the study of...?
What is the Brain
Which component of the limbic system has an essential role in the formation of new memories?
What is the hippocampus
What Russian Psychologist conducted experiments with dogs?
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov is most famous for conducting experiments using what animals?
What is Dogs?
As you begin running, you stumble and fall onto a rose bush. Your hand automatically jerks away from the thorns that tore into it. This kind of response is known as?
What is Reflex?
According to psychologist Sigmund Freud, personality is comprised of three elements: the Id, Ego, and…?
What is Superego?
Brain Damage that leaves a person Capable of understanding speech but with an impaired ability to produce speech most likely indicates injury to the?
What is Broca's area
What figure of psychology is most famous for studying and providing theories about child development?
Who was Jean Piaget?
Mary knows that if she does all of her chores, she won’t be grounded for the weekend. What type of motivation is she displaying?
What is Extrinsic?
Some psychotics believing in very unrealistic ideas are called what?
What are Delusions?
The first step of classical conditioning is pairing a neutral stimulus with an _____ stimulus.
What is Unconditioned?
The humans brain differs from the brains of the most other animals by the relative amount of brain mass devoted to which of the following?
What is the Cerebral Cortex
Who established psychology laboratory in Germany?
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
Which study of comparative psychologists consists of the ways that animals position themselves in reaction to light, heat and other forces?
What is Orientation?
What is the term used by psychologists to describe people who sometimes behave abnormally but can usually cope with everyday problem?
What is Neurotic?
Which of these parenting styles has shown to produce the most confident, competent, and happy children?
What is Authoritative?
The staggering and slurred speech of a person who has consumed too much alcohol is most likely the result of altered functioning in the?
What is the Cerebellum?
Who developed the method called ’free association’?
Who was Sigmund Freud?
At which university did psychologist Philip Zimbardo conduct a prison experiment that had to be ended earlier than expected due to its participants taking their roles to an extreme level?
What is Stanford University?
A leading American supporter of maturational theory, who found that the growing child’s behaviour seems to follow a set developmental pattern is?
Who was Arnold Gesell?
When was the first psychology laboratory founded?
What is 1875?
You see a zombie stumbling toward you. You start to run away in terror. Which of your glands is likely the most active?
What is the Adrenal Gland?
What famous Psychologist studied the attachment theory by putting children and parents through a scenario famously called the Stranger Situation?
Who was Mary Ainsworth?
Which theory emphasize the importance of underlying physical causes of psychological disturbances?
What is Biophysical Therapy
Which school of psychology helps the patient to understand and accept repressed feelings and find ways to deal with them?
What is Psychoanalysis?