Psychologists
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Biopsych
Psych Faculty
100

This Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis developed the theory of the Oedipus complex.

Who is Sigmund Freud?

100

Sigmund Freud proposed that personality development in childhood happens in five stages; what is this theory? 



What is Freud's Psychosexual Theory?

100

This type of sample is one in which every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected.

What is a random sample?

100

This structure is associated with memory formation and memory retrieval. 

What is the hippocampus?

100

A big foodie and is even interested in studying food neophobia.

Who is Dr. Zinner?

200

He is known for developing the humanist theory of psychosocial development. 

Who is Carl Rogers?

200

This theory proposes that human learning is largely social and cognitive functions are formed based on our interactions.


What is the sociocultural theory? 

200

What type of scale consists of separate categories that are arranged in rank order?

What is an ordinal scale?

200

This neurotransmitter is often associated with pleasure, reward, and addiction.

What is the Pituitary gland?

200

Is a licensed clinical psychologist and graduated from DePaul for undergrad.

Who is Dr. Henriquez-Gerken?

300

This psychologist is famous for his hierarchy of needs.

Who is Abraham Maslow?

300

This phenomenon occurs when an individual's attitudes or beliefs are inconsistent with their actions, leading to discomfort.

What is cognitive dissonance?

300

This is a threat to internal validity where natural processes that change over time in participants can cause the DV to change or create a false treatment effect.

What is maturation?

300

This is a rapid sequence of changes in voltage across a membrane of a cell and what is the protective coat that covers them? 

What is an action potential and myelin sheath? 

300

This professor has traveled to Chile recently. 

Who is Dr. Wise?

400

He is known for introducing the psychosocial development theory.

Who is Erik Erikson?

400

This type of therapy focuses on managing intense emotions, such as borderline personality disorder and  was formed  as an extension to an existing therapy. 

What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?

400

In statistics this is a measure of variation or how dispersed set values are from the mean.

What is standard deviation?

400

What is the term for the body's internal biological clock, which regulates our sleep-wake cycle?

What is the circadian rhythm?

400

Was a recipient of the 2023 Lu Thomasson Garret '52 Award for Meritorious Teaching at Honors and Awards Night.

Who is Dr. Bays?

500

Known for her groundbreaking research on attachment theory, she identified the "strange situation" procedure.

Who is Mary Ainsworth?

500

What term describes the phenomenon where a person tends to remember the first and last items in a list better than those in the middle?

What is the serial position effect?

500

The proportion of variance in your outcome variable that is accounted for by the set of predictor variables together.

What is the coefficient of determination?

500

Which cranial nerve supplies motor activity to the tongue?



What is the hypoglossal nerve?

500

This professors clinical focus is on OCD and other anxiety disorders and received their Psy.D. from Mercer University. 

Who is Dr. Bailey?