Experiments
This classical conditioning experiment involved a baby, a white rat, and loud noises to study fear responses.
What is the Little Albert Experiment?
These chemicals pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What are neurotransmitters?
The Stanford Prison Experiment was led by this psychologist and tested the effects of situational roles on behavior.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
A disorder characterized by distorted thinking and perception.
What is schizophrenia?
This type of psychologist helps students with learning, behavior, and emotional problems in school settings.
What is a school psychologist?
This experiment examined the behaviors of babies when their mothers left and reentered the room.
What is Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation?
The brain structure responsible for the brain’s fight or flight reaction.
What is the amygdala?
This professor at UNT leads a study abroad program where you stay in an English manor.
Who is Dr. Sims?
This group of mental disorders is the most prevalent in the United States, with a 1-year prevalence of 19%.
What are anxiety disorders?
This psychology profession focuses on legal issues, often working in criminal investigations or court cases.
What is a forensic psychologist?
In this experiment, researchers gave African American children dolls that differed in skin color. The findings of self-hatred in African American children were used as evidence in the Supreme Court case Brown v Board.
What is the Kenneth and Mami Clark Doll Experiment?
This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language, both written and verbal.
What is Broca’s aphasia?
This psychologist's theory of cognitive development shaped the understanding of children's intellectual growth.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This disorder is characterized by an intense fear of gaining weight coupled with a refusal to maintain adequate nutrition and severe loss of body weight.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This psychology career focuses on workplace behavior, including employee productivity and organizational efficiency.
What is an industrial-organization psychologist?
Dogs were exposed to electrical shocks to the point where they would not escape even if given the opportunity to in this experiment conducted by Martin Seligman and Steven Maier.
What is the Learned Helplessness Experiment?
The most common form of red-green colorblindness where a person is missing M-Cones.
What is deuteranopia?
The “Marshmallow Test,” which assessed children’s ability to delay gratification, was conducted by this psychologist.
Who is Walter Mischel?
The extent to which behavior interferes with a person's capacity to carry out everyday tasks such as studying or relating to others.
What is maladaptiveness?
A specialist who focuses on helping older individuals and their families, including helping with shifting family roles and coping with the death of a loved one.
What is a geropsychologist?
In the experiment, participants were shown a series of photographs of individuals and asked to rate them on various personality traits based on first impressions.
What is the Halo Effect Experiment?
A condition where there is an excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain's ventricles, causing cognitive problems such as difficulty planning and concentrating.
What is hydrocephalus?
This psychologist proposed the concept of the "looking-glass self," where individuals form their self-image based on how they believe others perceive them, essentially using others as a "mirror" to reflect their self-concept.
Who is Charles H. Cooley?
To transfer unconscious desires and project feelings towards someone else onto the therapist, allowing unconscious desires (of hate or love) to be expressed in behavior rather than symptoms.
What is transference?
A psychologist in this field studies how humans interact with machines and technology to improve usability and efficiency.
What is a human factors psychologist?