Freudian Psych
Freud believed this kind of slip reveals hidden thoughts or feelings.
What is a Freudian slip?
This experiment simulated a prison environment and was shut down early due to ethical concerns.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This chemical messenger plays a major role in movement and reward.
What is dopamine?
The group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment is called this.
What is the control group?
This effect explains why people are less likely to help when others are around.
What is the bystander effect?
This part of Freud’s model works as the mediator, balancing desires with reality.
What is the ego?
This long-term study of identical twins raised apart found that genetics plays a significant role in personality and intelligence.
What is the Minnesota Twin Study?
This brain imaging technique measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.
What is fMRI?
The most basic level of Maslow’s hierarchy includes this category of needs.
What are physiological needs?
This part of your brain is the reason you scream during a horror movie — it’s the center of fear and emotion.
What is the amygdala?
According to Freud, this part of your mind wants what it wants right now.
What is the id?
In this attachment study, infant monkeys preferred soft cloth “mothers” over wire ones that provided food.
What is the Harlow Monkey Experiment?
The corpus callosum connects these two parts of the brain.
What are the left and right hemispheres?
In an experiment, this variable is manipulated by the researcher.
What is the independent variable?
When two things rise and fall together — or move in opposite directions — but one doesn’t cause the other, you’re seeing this statistical illusion.
What is correlation?
Freud used this method to access the unconscious by having patients say whatever came to mind.
What is free association?
This baby was conditioned to fear white rats by John Watson.
Who is Little Albert?
This part of the brain is responsible for higher-order thinking and decision-making.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This type of conditioning involves learning through rewards and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
B.F. Skinner would be proud if you kept pressing a lever for food — that’s this kind of conditioning in action.
What is operant conditioning?
Freud's part of personality that is made up of the conscience and the ideal self.
What is the superego?
In this obedience study, participants thought they were delivering shocks to a stranger.
What is the Milgram experiment?
Damage to Broca’s area affects this ability.
What is speech production?
This perspective in psychology emphasizes free will and self-actualization.
What is the humanistic perspective?
You believe plane crashes happen often because you just saw one on the news. You’ve fallen for this heuristic.
What is the availability heuristic?