Mental Health
This mental disorder is common among women starting at just after 14 years old. Common symptoms are persistent sadness, loss of interest in hobbies or activities, and feelings of worthlessness.
What is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
This man is known as the father of psychology and created his theory on structuralism, which included helping understand human consciousness through introspection.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
This experiment demonstrated that individuals are more likely to conform to a group's opinions even if those opinions are wrong because of societal pressures.
What is the Asch Conformity Experiment
This 2015 Disney movie is based on a young girl's emotions and how memories can be stored, consolidated, and changed.
What is Inside Out
This neurotransmitter is associated with the "feel good" center of the brain.
What is dopamine
This disorder is more common among young boys than girls. The symptoms of someone with this disorder often include struggles in nonverbal communication, social/emotional exchanges, resistance to changes in routine, and unusually weak/strong responses to stimuli.
What is Autism or someone on the Autism Spectrum
This man is known specifically for his dog.
Who is Ivan Pavlov
This hypothesis is based on the belief that people get what they deserve from a present outcome and that the world is fair place.
What is Just World Hypothesis
This animated show about a dysfunctional horse explores depression, trauma, and self-destructive behavior.
What is BoJack Horseman
What does it mean when you can only seen an everyday object for intended pratical use.
What is Functional Fixedness
This disorder can be passed down from generation to generation. It's most prevalent in twins. Symptoms include delusions, auditory hallucinations, erratic behavior, and disorganized speech and thinking patterns.
What is schizophrenia
GAMBLE BIG: This man proposed that each person possessed at least 8 different catogories of intelligence.
Who is Howard Garder
According to this psychological effect, people tend to favor information that supports their existing beliefs.
What is the confirmation bias
YES OR NO: This crime drama follows a team of FBI profilers who study criminal behavior to predict and catch serial killers.
What is Criminal Minds
GAMBLE BIG: This part of the brain is crucial for speech production and damage can lead to slow, effortful, and grammatically impaired speech.
What is Broca's aphasia
This disorder was also known as Emotionally Unstable Disorder but has since changed. Symptoms include extreme mood swings (intense happiness, anger, sadness, or anxiety), intense fear of being left alone or abandoned (real or perceived), and intense and short-lived relationships.
What is BPD or Borderline Personality Disorder
YES OR NO: This man challeneged B.F. Skinner's views that children could only be taught how to speak through positive reinforcement and used an example such as a young boy saying he hates his mother.
Who is Noam Chomsky
This term describes when a person underperforms due to the fear of confirming a negative stereotype about their group.
What is stereotype threat
GAMBLE BIG: This mind-bending psychological thriller series follows an unreliable narrator named Elliot, a hacker struggling with dissociative identity disorder.
What is Mr. Robot
This psychological phenomenon is where people have complete confidence in what they remember even though they are completely wrong about it.
What is False Memory
YES OR NO: This medication is used to help treat substance abuse and addiction more specifically alcoholism—the results of taking it cause the person to experience sickness after taking the preferred abused substance.
What is Antabuse (disulfiram)
This man is well known for creating the Hierarchy of Needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow
GAMBLE BIG QUESTION: The bystander effect was famously demonstrated after this tragic 1964 murder in New York.
What is the Kitty Genovese case
YES OR NO: This FX series blends superhero elements with psychological horror, as the protagonist struggles with schizophrenia and a powerful mutant mind.
What is Legion
This is a mental construct consisting of a collection of related concepts.
What is a Schema