Fun Moments
Students were asked to build a 3-D model of this brain cell that has an axon, dendrite, cell body, nucleus, and synapse.
What is a neuron?
This is when people experience an "effect" of a treatment condition they did not receive but believe they did.
What is the placebo effect?
This is CCC's mascot.
What is a prairie dog?
This discipline is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness.
What is health psychology?
We joked about Freud and his cocaine habit, but he actually died from this other addictive substance.
What is nicotine?
Students places salt or sugar on their tongue one crystal at a time in order to discover this.
What is sensory threshold?
In research, this variable is the treatment condition.
What is the independent variable?
This place on CCC's campus is very active, offers help with studying and homework, and has comfy places for studying or hanging out.
What is the tutoring center?
This supplement can improve "gut" health and may decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety.
What are probiotics?
Freud's daughter went on to create this school based on her father's viewpoints of this psychological perspective.
What is psychoanalytic?
You filled out a survey about attributing characteristics to yourself or external forces. Then, you decided how your instructor's characteristics should be attributed- herself or external factors. This represents an important concept.
What is fundamental attribution error?
In research, this is the variable that changes and gets measured.
What is the dependent variable?
This psychologist came to CCC and gave a workshop on anxiety.
Who is Dr. Zeigler ?
This neurotransmitter that has been associated with depression and anxiety and is also produced in the gastrointestinal tract.
What is serotonin?
When Freud prompted people to lay on his couch, he encouraged them to spills their guts in a process called this.
What is free association?
This technique can be found on YouTube, and it soothes the nervous system by decreasing stress hormones.
What is meditation?
This is when a research participant reads all conditions of a study to include objectives, expectations, and potential dangers, and he or she signs a document/agrees to participate.
What is informed consent?
A slang word that functions broadly with the meaning "to throw," but is especially used to emphasize forcefulness and a lack of concern for the thing being thrown. Expresses excitement or enthusiasm.
What is YEET?
This association has many divisions that represent its many areas of research. Health psychology is one of the divisions.
What is the APA?
Freud was born in this country in 1856.
What is Austria?
Groups made slides to describe things that cause fetal complications. Chemicals and environmental toxins go by the name this.
What are teratogens?
This means to identify the claim, evaluate the evidence, consider alternative explanations, and consider the source of the research or claim.
What is check validity?
This season-full of cultural performances is sponsored by CCC and are usually held at Marshall Auditorium, the Norman and Vi Petty Rock & Roll Museum, or a downtown theater.
What is the Cultural Arts Series?
This model incorporates factors from human biology, psychology, and social interaction.
What is the biopsychosocial model of psychology?
Freud believed that people's naughty thoughts came from the part of the unconscious mind.
What is the ID?