History of Psychology
Who founded the first psychology lab?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
Which psychology professor likes to use bovine questions in his exams?
Who is Dr. Joseph Horton
Who is William James
This famous social psychologist conducted experiments on aggression and observational learning, studying how children interacted with the "Bobo Doll" after viewing adults in contact with it.
Who is Albert Bandura
A psychological phenomenon that occurs when a person's expectations or beliefs cause them to act in a way that makes those expectations come true
What is Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Which psychology/sociology professor has a brother who teaches engineering at GCC?
Who is Dr. Martin Bright
A behaviorist, this person came up with the concept of instrumental conditioning and experimented with cats.
Who is Edward Thorndike
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.
What is the limbic system
People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal dispositions or external situations
What is Fundamental Attribution Error
Which professor has published work on body image/body dissatisfaction?
Who is Dr. Kristin Homan
This German psychologist, one of the leading figures in Gestalt psychology, introduced the idea of "insight learning," where problem-solving involves a sudden realization of the solution.
Who is Wolfgang Köhler
In his 1951 study using college males and identification of length of lines on cards, Solomon Asch was actually studying what?
What is conformity
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter
This theory explores how individuals attribute mental states (e.g., beliefs, desires) to themselves and others, and use these attributions to understand and predict behavior.
What is Theory of Mind
Who is the newest professor in the psych department?
Who is Dr. Russell Kosits
What year did Freud publish The Psychopathology of Everyday Life?
What is 1901
Who was the woman who's death tragically (and accidentally) perfectly illustrated the bystander effect?
Who is Kitty Genovese
This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language.
What is Broca's aphasia
A type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps people learn how to identify and change the destructive or disturbing thought patterns that have a negative influence on their behavior and emotion
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Which professor's grandfather worked maintenance in Rockwell during the Great Depression?
Who is Dr. Gary Welton