Famous Psychologists
Who is considered the father of psychoanalysis?
Sigmund Freud
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Philip Zimbardo
What is the term for an individual's conscious understanding of their own thoughts and feelings?
Self Awareness
What term describes the fear of being in places where escape might be difficult, commonly associated with panic disorder?
Agoraphobia
What personality traits assessment gives you an archetype based on the following personalities: Extraversion vs. Introversion, Sensing vs. Intuition, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving?
Myers-Briggs
Father of Humanistic Psychology
Abraham Maslow
The correlation between altitude and temperature would be what type of correlation?
Negative Correlation
What is the psychological term for mental shortcuts or rules of thumb?
Heuristics
What is the name of the psychological disorder where a person has two or more distinct identities or personalities?
Dissociative Identity Disorder
What is another name for the inkblot test?
Rorschach Test
Which psychologist is known for the theory of operant conditioning?
B.F. Skinner
a correlation coefficient that measures the linear correlation between two sets of data.
Pearson's R
What psychological experiment demonstrated the human tendency to obey authority figures, even when asked to perform morally questionable actions?
Milgram Experiment (Stanley Milgram)
What is the term for a personality trait characterized by high levels of anxiety and tension?
Neuroticism
The desire to eat strange things that are non-nutritive is known as what?
Pica
Who conducted the famous “Bobo doll” experiment demonstrating observational learning?
Albert Bandura
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated.
Quasi-Experimental Design
Who is known for his experiments on obedience to authority figures?
Philip Zimbardo
What is the term for a psychological disorder characterized by recurring, unwanted thoughts or impulses?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
What is the name of a projective test where a client is asked to interpret a drawing or image?
Thematic Apperception Test
Who is known for the theory of multiple intelligences, which suggests that there are different types of intelligence beyond IQ?
Howard Gardner
The tendency of participants to act differently from normal in a research study because they know they are being observed.
Hawthorne Effect
What is the term for the concept that people are more likely to remember the first and last items in a series?
Serial Position Effect
The C Personality Disorder Cluster characterized by dramatic, unpredictable behavior consists of which 4 disorders?
Borderline, Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Histrionic Personality Disorders.
What is the term for the cognitive bias where people give more weight to recent events than earlier ones?
Recency Effect