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The research method where you ask a bunch of people their thoughts, feelings, or opinions via a bunch of questions. Usually anonymous so answers are authentic.

What is a Survey?

100

This lobe at the back of the brain is primarily responsible for processing vision.

What is the Occipital Lobe?

100

This disorder is defined by its irrational fears of a specific object, idea, or place. Individual can't even see an image of the things they fear without freaking out.

What is a phobia?

100

When you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel something that isn't actually there. The primary identifying symptom of schizophrenia.

What are hallucinations?

100

When a person displays a long-term pattern of grandiosity, a need for admiration, and overemphasis of self-importance they would be diagnosed with...

What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

100

Which country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles?

What is Brazil?

200

This research method is focused on watching people in their natural environment without interacting with them.

What is Naturalistic Observation?

200

This lobe contains the motor cortex and is responsible for planning and voluntary movement. Last part of the brain to fully develop.

What is the Frontal Lobe?

200

This disorder is characterized by its extreme lows in mood. As well as feelings of hopelessness or inappropriate guilt. This mental illness is the primary reason people seek psychological therapy.

What is Major Depression?

200

This disorder results in numerous unique personalities and forms of consciousness inside of an individuals mind.

What is DID/Dissociative Identity Disorder?

200

This disorder is an obsession with losing weight and often results in individuals being 15% or more underweight.

What is Anorexia Nervosa?

200

Who composed the Moonlight Sonata?

Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?

300

When you extensively study one individual or a unique group of people in depth to uncover a possible universal truth. (i.e. Phineas Gage is our key example)

What is a Case Study?

300

This region, located on the side of the brain, helps process hearing and memory.

What is the Temporal Lobe?

300

This disorder has 2 main symptoms. Intrusive thoughts that distress the individual and a drive to do specific tasks that are often meant to reduce the intrusive thoughts.

What is OCD?

300

In Schizophrenia these positive symptoms are the illogical beliefs individuals may have about being persecuted (the gov't is out to get them) or grandiosity (they are the new savior of man)

What are delusions?

300

This disorder is defined by a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others, often with a lack of remorse. They are manipulative and deceitful.

What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?

300

It's a household appliance, or a space devoid of matter.

What is a vacuum?

400

When you are trying to show cause and effect by manipulating the independent variable in a study and randomly assigning your participants into 2 groups to control for confounding variables.

What is an Experiment?

400

The limbic system structure responsible for memory formation. Attached to the amygdala to emotional charge memories.

What is the Hippocampus?

400

Individuals with this disorder can experience low mood for extended periods of time and then cycle into a very elevated mood that is often euphoric.

What is Bipolar Disorder?

400

A hallmark symptom of Dissociative Disorders described as an individual forgetting memories of a traumatic experience.

What is Amnesia?
400

Characterized by attention-seeking behavior, extreme emotionality, and seductive behavior, this disorder falls under the dramatic cluster.

What is Historic Personality Disorder?

400

Jet lag is a disruption in these rhythms of the body, from Latin words for "about the day"

What is circadian?

500

This type of research tends to show how two variables may be related or possibly influence each other. However this research method does not demonstrate causation.

What is correlational study?

500

This lobe processes sensations like touch, pain, and body position. Contains the Somatosensory Cortex.

What is the Parietal Lobe?

500

A disorder that impacts individuals who experience a traumatic event. Often causing nightmares, hypervigilance, and flashbacks of the trauma.

What is PTSD?

500

This diagnosis would be applied if an individual disconnects from their consciousness due to a trauma and wanders away to create a new life and identity with no ability to recall their old life.

What is Dissociative Fugue?

500

Individuals will often eat large amounts of food in one sitting and then feel intense guilt or depression afterwards.

What is Binge Eating Disorder?

500

She was only 18 years old when she began writing Frankenstein

Who is Mary Shelley?