Psychological Effects
What effect describes how the presence of others makes individuals less likely to help someone in an emergency?
Bystander effect
Who developed the hierarchy of needs?
Abraham Maslow
In which study were college students randomly assigned as guards or prisoners, leading to surprising and disturbing power dynamics?
Stanford Prison Experiment
What is the name of the current manual used by clinicians to diagnose and assess psychological disorders?
DSM-5-TR
Which neurotransmitter is often associated with reward, motivation, and addiction?
Dopamine
Which effect represents the ability to prioritize specific auditory stimuli and filter out background noise?
Cocktail party effect
Which psychologist might explain your suspicious pattern of dating people who resemble your mom a little too closely?
Sigmund Freud
In which experiment did participants believe they were delivering electric shocks to a “learner,” showing how far people will go under the influence of authority?
Milgram experiment
Which disorder involves intrusive memories, avoidance, negative mood changes, and hyperarousal after experiencing a traumatic event?
PTSD
Which brain structure processes new memories and is shaped like a seahorse?
Hippocampus
What cognitive effect leads people to overestimate how much others notice their appearance, mistakes, or behaviors?
Spotlight effect
Which researcher discovered classical conditioning by noticing his dogs salivated at the sound of a bell?
Ivan Pavlov
In which study did children display aggressive behavior toward a toy after witnessing adults do it first?
Bobo doll experiment
Which disorder involves periods of elevated mood and energy, often accompanied by risky behavior, alternating with episodes of depression?
Bipolar disorder
Which part of the limbic system helps us detect threats and generate fear responses?
Amygdala
What phenomenon describes how individuals exert less effort when working in a group than when working alone?
Social loafing
Which researcher's work with Bobo dolls demonstrated that children learn through observing others’ behavior?
Albert Bandura
Which set of studies placed people in waiting rooms that slowly filled with smoke to test how group behavior influenced perceptions of emergencies?
Smoke-filled room studies
Which personality disorder features patterns of instability in relationships, fear of abandonment, and impulsive behavior?
Borderline personality disorder
Which schedule of reinforcement rewards a behavior after a set number of responses (like being paid for every 10 items produced)?
Fixed-ratio schedule
What effect explains why people perform simple or well-learned tasks better when being watched by others?
Social facilitation
Which psychologist introduced the concepts of introversion and extraversion, later inspiring modern personality theory?
Carl Jung
Which classic conformity study had participants judge line lengths and showed that people often conform to the group even when the group is clearly wrong?
Asch conformity experiment
Which disorder involves at least two distinct identity states and memory gaps that can’t be explained by ordinary forgetfulness?
Dissociative identity disorder
Which phenomenon occurs when a previously extinguished conditioned response suddenly reappears after a period of rest?
Spontaneous recovery