Identify The Behavior
Someone repeatedly gives you compliments or gifts to make you like them, then later uses your trust to control you.
What is Manipulation?
A person experiences intense fear in social situations and avoids being judged or embarrassed.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This lobe processes visual information.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
This character cannot form new memories and constantly repeats questions like “Where am I?”
Who is Dory?
A baby is born with blue eyes due to inherited genes.
What is Nature?
A person constantly tells you that your memory of events is wrong, even when you’re sure you’re correct.
What is Gaslighting?
A person has recurring, intrusive thoughts and performs repetitive behaviors (like checking or cleaning) to reduce anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
This lobe is responsible for decision-making, planning, and personality.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
This character struggles with social cues, prefers routines, and has very specific interests in science and order.
Who is Sheldon Cooper?
A child learns to speak English because they grow up in the United States.
What is Nurture?
Someone exaggerates or fakes illness to gain attention or sympathy. For example someone who just got into a car accident may do this to secure financial compensation.
What is Malingering?
A person has extreme mood swings, including emotional highs (mania) and deep depressive lows.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Damage to this area can result in difficulty forming new long-term memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
This villain embraces chaos, lacks empathy, and manipulates others for personal amusement.
Who is the Joker?
A person develops a strong fear of dogs after being bitten as a child.
What is Nurture?
Someone isolates you from friends or family to increase your dependence on them.
What is Isolation?
A person feels detached from their own body or as if they are observing themselves from outside.
What is Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder?
This structure is responsible for processing emotions like fear and plays a key role in the fight-or-flight response.
What is the Amygdala?
This character develops an obsessive attachment to someone and goes to extreme lengths to control their life in the name of “love.”
Who is Joe Goldberg?
Identical twins raised apart still show very similar personalities and interests.
What is Nature?
A person alternates between ignoring you and giving attention, keeping you constantly anxious.
What is Emotional Withholding / Push-Pull Behavior?
A person alternates between idealizing and devaluing others, with intense emotional instability and fear of abandonment.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This area of the frontal lobe is specifically associated with speech production; damage leads to difficulty forming words.
What is Broca's Area
This character meticulously plans crimes, lacks empathy, and maintains a charming outward personality to hide violent tendencies.
Who is Patrick Bateman?
A child is born with a genetic risk for high intelligence but grows up in an environment with limited educational resources and stimulation.
What is Both Nature and Nurture?