Pop Culture Psyc.
This animated Pixar film explores the emotions of Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust inside a young girl’s mind.
Inside Out
In 1971, Philip Zimbardo conducted this controversial psychology experiment to study the effects of power and authority.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
This part of the brain, known as the “fear center,” is involved in emotional processing and threat detection.
The Amygdala
This common mental health disorder is characterized by persistent sadness and loss of interest in daily activities.
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
Sigmund Freud is best known for developing this theory of personality, which includes the id, ego, and superego.
Psychoanalytic Theory
This horror movie villain wears a ghostly white mask and calls his victims before attacking, playing into psychological fears of the unknown.
Ghostface From Scream
This federal law enforcement agency, founded in 1908, has a Behavioral Analysis Unit specializing in criminal profiling.
The FBI
This neurotransmitter is commonly associated with pleasure and reward.
Dopamine
Exposure therapy is most commonly used to treat this category of mental disorders.
Anxiety Disorders/Phobias
This effect occurs when a person experiences a benefit from a treatment that lacks an active ingredient.
The Placebo Effect
This psychological phenomenon, named after a Disney princess, describes when a captive develops positive feelings toward their captor.
Stockholm Syndrome
This famous serial killer was known for charming his victims with his looks and later confessed to over 30 murders before his execution in 1989. (Hint: There was a documentary released about him in 2019)
Ted Bundy
This structure, known as the "little brain," is responsible for balance and coordination.
Cerebellum
This disorder is characterized by alternating periods of extreme highs (mania) and extreme lows (depression).
Bipolar Disorder
his term describes a research method where neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a treatment or placebo.
Double-Blind Study
This 2010 film, directed by Christopher Nolan, explores the concept of dream manipulation and features the line, "You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling."
Inception
This legal term describes when a defendant was unable to distinguish right from wrong due to a mental disorder at the time of committing a crime.
The insanity defense
The corpus callosum connects these two major parts of the brain.
The Left And Right Hemispheres
This therapy, developed by Aaron Beck, focuses on identifying and changing negative thought patterns.
CBT
This famous psychologist conducted controversial obedience experiments in the 1960s, where participants believed they were administering shocks to others.
Stanley Milgrim
This psychological concept, named after a famous sociologist, describes how individuals change their behavior when they know they are being observed.
The Hawthorne Effect
This psychological disorder, commonly associated with serial killers, is marked by a lack of empathy, deceitfulness, and disregard for others.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
This brain imaging technique detects changes in blood flow and is commonly used in psychological research.
fMRI
This disorder, formerly called multiple personality disorder, involves the presence of two or more distinct identities.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
This effect occurs when people are less likely to help in an emergency when there are more bystanders present.
The Bystander Effect