Famous Psychologists
Who is Sigmund Freud
The brain has this many lobes
What is four?
This disorder stems from less serotonin in the brain
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
The manipulated variable within an experiment
What is Independent Variable?
This Pixar film in 2015 exposed mental health to a large audience
What is Inside Out?
Regarded as the "father of psychology", and created the first psych lab in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
The primary neurotransmitter involved in the fight or flight response
What is epinephrine/adrenaline?
People with this disorder may have trouble focusing, staying still, or controlling impulsive behavior—especially in childhood.
What is ADHD?
The second step of the scientific method
What is forming a hypothesis?
This is the term for the brain’s ability to change and adapt as a result of experience.
What is plasticity?
Known for his stages of development theory, alive from 1902-1994
Who is Erik Erikson?
What is Dopamine?
This eating disorder is characterized by extreme weight loss, fear of gaining weight, and a distorted body image.
What is Anorexia?
A fake treatment given to measure a control group
What is a Placebo?
The psychological phenomenon where individuals are less likely to help someone in danger when others are present
The primary developer of client-centered therapy
Who is Carl Rogers?
The hippocampus is in this lobe of the brain
What is Temporal Lobe?
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This is the extent to which an experiment measures what it claims to measure
What is validity?
This Swiss psychologist studied cognitive development in children.
Who is Erik Piaget?
His primary contribution to psychology was the theory of operant conditioning
Who is B. F. Skinner
The average weight of an adult human brain
What is 3 pounds?
Individuals with this rare but severe disorder may experience two or more distinct identities or personality states that control behavior at different times.
The four requirements for a study to be considered a true experiment
What is manipulation, control, random assignment, and random selection?
A fear of phobias
What is Phobophobia?