Therapy
This therapy is the most common and effective psychotherapy
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
In this experiment, participants thought they were shocking another person when they answered questions incorrectly, revealing powerful insights about obedience.
What is the Milgram Experiment?
This theory, developed by John Bowlby, argues that early bonds between infants and caregivers are crucial for emotional development.
What is Attachment Theory?
This personality dimension describes people who are sociable, energetic, and talkative.
What is extraversion?
This part of the brain is still maturing in your twenties.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This therapy is commonly used to help people confront and reduce intense fears or phobias.
What is exposure therapy?
In this 1971 study at Stanford University, participants randomly assigned as guards or prisoners quickly adopted their roles.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
This term describes a young girl’s psychosexual competition with her mother for her father’s attention.
What is the Electra Complex?
This personality disorder involves unstable relationships and intense emotions.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This hemisphere is in charge of language development.
What is the left hemisphere?
Originally used as an anesthetic, this rapidly acting treatment is sometimes used for people with treatment-resistant depression.
What is Ketamine Therapy?
In this controversial study, Albert Bandura observed children imitating aggressive behaviour toward a doll.
What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?
This theory argues that learning is determined by the consequences of behaviour (rewards and punishments).
What is operant conditioning?
This psychologist emphasized the collective unconscious and archetypes in personality.
Who is Carl Jung?
The tiny gap between neurons where neurotransmitters carry messages.
What is a synapse?
This treatment for trauma involves recalling distressing memories while performing guided eye movements.
What is EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)?
This attachment study classified infants as secure, avoidant, ambivalent, or disorganized.
What is the Strange Situation experiment?
This humanistic theory emphasizes that people are motivated by a hierarchy of needs culminating in self-actualization.
What is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
This personality assessment asks people to interpret ambiguous inkblots.
What is the Rorschach inkblot test?
This small, almond-shaped structure deep in the temporal lobe is critical for processing emotions such as fear, anger, and pleasure.
What is the amygdala?
Exploring the unconscious mind and unresolved childhood experiences is central to this therapeutic approach.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
Despite his memory problems, H.M. could still learn new motor skills, demonstrating this type of memory.
What is procedural memory?
This developmental theory proposes stages such as sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
What is Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?
This theorist believed personality develops through stages of psychosocial conflict across the lifespan.
Who is Erik Erikson?
This part of the brain is involved in forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?