Who's That?
Research Methods & Experiments
The Brain
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100

This person is a professor in the psychology department.

Who is literally any psych professor mentioned?

100

This is the course number for Research Methods. 

What is PY 370?

100

This region of the brain that is important in motor control, Latin for "little brain"

What is the Cerebellum?

100

An approach that uses evolutionary principles to study human behavior.

What is evolutionary psychology?

100

This animal is most famous for being used in Pavlov's experiments.

What is a dog?

200

The guy that came up with the hierarchy of needs.

Who is Abraham Maslow?

200

This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception. 

Who is Stanley Milgram?

200

The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it. 

What is amnesia?

200

This field of psychology proposes the question: Are people programmed by inborn dispositions? or is an individual's fate molded by culture, family, and peers?

What is developmental psychology?

200

These are the big five personality types. (Name at least 2)

What are openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism? 

300

This guy was popular with experimenting with operant conditioning. 

Who was B.F. Skinner?

300

This psychologist's famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards. 

Who is Philip Zimbardo?

300

This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and basal ganglia. 

What is the limbic system?

300

A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment. (It's not a specific person)

Who is a behaviorist?

300

This is the name of a psychological evaluation that uses inkblots. 

What is the Rorschach Test?

400

This psychologist looked at the human psyche and its connection to the id, the ego, and the superego. 

Who is Sigmund Freud?

400

This experiment was famously done by Albert Bandura. His purpose was to study social learning theory. 

What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?

400

Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.

What is a neurotransmitter?

400

People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal dispositions or external situations. 

What is the Attribution Theory?

400

This is the common nickname given to the baby that was used in Watson's classical conditioning experiments.

What/Who is Little Albert?

500

This psychologist was most known for his work on child development. 

Who is Piaget?

500

A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and the independent variable is manipulated. 

What is quasi-experimental?

500

This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language.

What is Broca's aphasia? 

500

Albert Bandura maintains that learning is facilitated by modeling and observational learning. 

What is social learning theory?

500

This person established the first psychology labratory.

Who is Wilhelm Wundt?