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Famous experiment on obedience, conformity, and groupthink performed on college students by Philip Zimbardo

What is the Stanford Prison Experiment

100

A single extension from the nerve cell that carries nerve impulses from the cell body to other neurons.

What is Axon

100

captures the positive mental state of being completely absorbed, focused, and involved in your activities at a certain point in time, as well as serving enjoyment from being engaged in that activity

Flow

100

Freud's childlike, impulsive principle


What is the id

100
theories were enormously influential, but subject to considerable criticism both now and during his own life. However, his ideas have become interwoven into the fabric of our culture, with terms such as "repression" and "denial" appearing regularly in everyday language.
Who is Sigmund Freud
200

Taking away one's humanity and unique sense of who they are such as being referred to as a number rather than a name

What is deindividuation

200
The portion of the nervous system that includes the brain and the spinal cord.
What is Central Nervous System (CNS)
200

Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active

What is Hierarchy of needs.

200

theory that says strong characteristics based on biology that form basis of personality

What is Trait Theory

200
Russian physiologist whose research on conditioned reflexes influenced the rise of behaviorism in psychology.
Who is Ivan Pavlov
300
A generalization about a group of people in which certain traits are assigned to virtually all members of the group, regardless of actual variation among the members.
What is Stereotype
300

A forebrain structure responsible for learning and short-term memory.

What is Hippocampus

300

paying attention to the present moment in order to control our thoughts

What is Mindfulness

300

venting our anger usually on an involved party

What is displacement

300
His most famous experiment was the 1961 Bobo doll study.
Who is Albert Bandura
400

Attributing an overimportance on personality factors and less on social factors when studying human behavior

What is fundamental attribution error

400

The region of the brain that consists of the cerebellum, the pons, and the medulla.

What is Brainstem or Hindbrain

400

Initial determination of whether a stressor poses a threat

What is Primary Appraisal

400

theory stating personality is shaped by the striving toward self-actualization

What is Humanistic theory

400
Today, he is best known for his research on children's cognitive development. He studied the intellectual development of his own three children and created a theory that described the stages that children pass through in the development of intelligence and formal thought processes.
Who is Jean Piaget
500

A drive or feeling of discomfort, originally defined as being caused by holding two or more inconsistent cognitions and subsequently defined as being caused by performing an action that is discrepant from ones customary, typically positive self-conception.

What is Cognitive Dissonance.

500

The chemical released from the axon terminal that serves as the basis of communication between neurons.

What is Neurotransmitter

500

A person's belief in his or her ability to succeed at the task at hand


What is Self-Efficacy

500

According to Carl Rogers, receiving respect and love without earning it

What is unconditional positive regard

500
He conducted various studies and published articles during his lifetime, with the most notable being his controversial study on obedience to authority, conducted in the 1960s.
Who is Stanley Milgram