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 psychologist helps students with learning, behavior, and emotional problems in educational 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?
A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill and was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses, and insane asylums.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This group of mental disorders is the most prevalent in the United States, with a 1-year prevalence of 19%.
What are anxiety disorders?
People in this career help others facing challenges by assessing their needs, providing counseling and support, and connecting them to necessary resources to improve their well-being and circumstances.
What are social workers?
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?
This "animal" was used to test people's selective attention in a test conducted by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
What is the invisible gorilla?
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?
In bipolar disorder, this is characterized by having four or more episodes of mania, hypomania, or depression in a year.
What is rapid cycling?
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?
People with this mental disorder feel as though they have become detached from their own mind or body. Their mind seems to be floating a few feet above them.
What is depersonalization-derealization disorder (DPDR)?
A psychologist in this field studies how humans interact with machines and technology to improve usability and efficiency.
What is a human factors psychologist?