Psi Chi
True or False: You have to be a PSY or CD student to be a member of Psi Chi.
What is false?
What kind of graduate program is research experience especially important for?
What is a PhD?
The grouping of the "Big Five" personality traits is occasionally known by its acronym OCEAN as the five traits are openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and what fifth trait?
What is neuroticism?
What is another name for the inkblot test?
What is a Rorschach test
This concept refers to a learned behavior that is reinforced by the removal of an unpleasant stimulus.
What is negative reinforcement?
True or False: You have to obtain membership with Psi Chi (the larger organization, "International Honors Society") to participate in events.
What is false?
This degree, often pursued by those wanting to practice as clinical psychologists, typically takes 5 to 7 years to complete and includes a dissertation.
What is a PhD?
This term describes a psychological phenomenon in which individuals attribute their successes to internal factors and their failures to external factors.
What is self-serving bias?
This psychological phenomenon is when a group of people prioritize harmony or conformity over critical thinking, resulting in irrational or poor decisions
What is groupthink?
This concept describes when someone holds two or more conflicting beliefs that leads to an alteration in one of them to reduce discomfort.
What is cognitive dissonance?
For individuals who would like to become a member of Psi Chi (the International Honors Society), they should complete the Psi Chi application and email it to the department email. Where can this application be found?
What is the PSY/CD website? (extra: go to undergraduates> clubs > psi chi)
Many psychology graduate programs require this standardized test, which assesses verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and analytical writing skills.
What is the GRE (Graduate Record Examination)?
What is the term for the study of how psychological, biological, and social factors influence health and illness?
What is health psychology?
Who developed the concept of unconditional positive regard?
What term describes the brain's ability to adapt and change as a result of experience?
What is neuroplasticity?
How often throughout the year are Psi Chi applications accepted?
What is year round?
The Cal Poly Masters of Psychology program prepares students with educational and licensing requirements for which CA counseling license?
What is the MFT license?
Which psychology discipline studies how the brain, neurotransmitters, and other aspects of our biology influence our behaviors, thoughts, and feelings?
What is biopsychology?
Which psychologist developed the idea of archetypes?
Who is Carl Jung?
What is generally considered the approximate capacity of our short term memory?
What is around 7 items?
True or False: Psi Chi membership provides students with advantages like potential scholarships, professional skills development, access to local/national/forums for learning/educational opportunities, and graduation regalia?
What is True?
This type of doctoral program emphasizes practice over research.
What is a PsyD?
This psychologist is best known for his hierarchy of needs, a theory proposing that humans are motivated by a series of progressively higher needs, culminating in self-actualization.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Up to their fifth edition and still shorter than "War and Peace," is the American Psychiatric Association's "DSM-5." What quantitative things do the D and S stand for?
What is Diagnostic and Statistical?
What is the name of the layer of tissue that covers and protects the brain and spinal cord?
What is the meninges?