Substance Abuse & Addiction
This legal stimulant is the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world.
What is caffeine?
The internet slang "brain rot" is often jokingly applied to binge-watching short videos on this app.
What is TikTok?
A famous 1971 study that assigned participants a “prisoner” or “guard” role to observe behavior related to power.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
The realization that people and objects exist even when they can not be seen.
What is object permanence?
The popular psychologist behind the dreamy theory.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This depressant is responsible for the highest number of substance-related deaths in the U.S. each year.
What is alcohol?
Pixar's Inside Out turned Joy, Anger, and Sadness into characters representing these.
What are emotions?
This researcher found that children who watched adults beat up a Bobo doll exhibited similar aggressive behaviors.
Who is Alfred Bandura?
What type of attachment is described: an infant uses the mother as a home base from which to explore when all is well, but seeks physical comfort and consolation from her if frightened.
What is secure attachment?
The mental health disorder when a person is extremely worries that they have or will get a serious disease, even if they have been seen by a doctor and there is no evidence that they are sick.
What is hypochondria?
According to the American Psychiatric Association, addiction is officially called this.
What is substance use disorder (SUD)?
Disney's Frozen became a popular metaphor for this defense mechanism, when Elsa isolates herself to cope with fear.
What is repression?
This concept describes the 3 ways to soothe discomfort when an individual's behavior and attitudes are inconsistent with each other.
What is Cognitive Dissonance (Theory)?
The fundamental debate in developmental psychology that questions whether a person’s development is primarily influenced by genetics or their environment.
What is “nature v. nurture”?
The three components of the human psyche in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory.
What are the id, ego, and superego?
This medication is used to reverse opioid overdoses in emergency situations?
What is naloxone (Narcan)?
In Fight Club, the narrator and Tyler Durden reflect this disorder where multiple identifies exist.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
The emotion a person derives from witnessing another’s misfortune.
What is Schadenfreude?
Who is known as the “father of developmental psychology”?
Who is Jean Piaget?
The language disorder that impairs one's ability to speak, understand, read, and write.
What is aphasia?
This term describes needing more of a substance to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
In 2008, psychiatrists Joel and Ian Gold documented patients who believed they were characters in a reality show, naming the condition after this 1998 film -- HINT: the Psychology Club watched this movie last fall.
What is The Truman Show?
A phrase reminiscent of how bread sticks together, describes a reduction of individual effort when working in a group.
What is Social Loafing?
What term is defined as “interpreting one’s new experience in terms of one’s existing schemas”?
What is assimilation?
The complete loss of one's life memories and confusion over personal identity, typically brought on by traumatic brain injury.
What is dissociative fugue?