Winner Winner B.F. Skinner
This behavioral psychologist famously worked with dogs.
Who is Pavlov?
Mean, median, and mode are examples of this type of statistics.
What are descriptive statistics?
Visual processing takes place in this area of the brain.
What is the occipital lobe?
This faculty member has been vegan for 30 years.
Who is Dr. Matthews?
In the OCEAN model of personality, also known as the Big Five personality traits, the "A" stands for this.
What is agreeableness?
Wilhelm Wundt created the "first" experimental psychology laboratory in this country.
What is Germany?
ANOVA stands for this.
What is "Analysis of Variance"?
5-HT is the scientific name for this neurotransmitter.
What is serotonin?
This professor was a regional champion tap dancer at 5 years old, had no passport until 44, played rugby, and graduated in 3.5 years?
Who is Dr. Dow?
A person who perceives improvements in their condition after receiving a false treatments is experiencing this phenomenon.
What is the placebo effect?
This comparative psychologist was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology.
Who is Margaret Floy Washburn?
This statistical measure is a representation of the probability that a test correctly rejects a false null hypothesis.
What is power?
Schizophrenia is attributed to excessive activity of this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
This faculty member was a presidential medalist.
Who is Dr. Huston-Comeaux?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs proposes motivation to be driven by five levels of needs. The second highest level of the pyramid is this.
What is self-esteem?
Edward Thorndike established the "law of effect" through this famous experiment.
What is the puzzle box experiment?
What is a type II error?
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes tremors, motor issues, and limb stiffness. This disorder is due to a degeneration of this area of the brain.
What is the substantia nigra?
This professor delivered their child in their home's bathroom.
Who is Dr. Weis?
This is a phenomena that displays brain interference when reading a color name printed in a different-colored ink.
What is the stroop effect?
The Little Albert experiment aimed to understand conditioned emotional responses, such as fear, and highlighted the importance of ethics in experimental psychology. This experiment was conducted by John Watson and ___?
Who is Rosalie Rayner?
This term refers to the assumption that the variance of residuals is equal across all levels of the independent variable.
What is homoscedasticity?
This area of the brain is responsible for the ability to identify faces.
What is the fusiform gyrus?
This faculty member was president of their high school's modern dance club.
Who is Dr. Kennedy?
Remembering how to tie your shoes or how to do the macarena are examples of this.
What is procedural memory?