Animal
This animal has famously been studied by a Russian physiologist with the last name of Pavlov that tested classical conditioning.
What is a dog?
This is the tendency to attribute someone else's actions to their personality rather than external factors.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
This Association features 155,000 psychologists who list clinical psychology as their specialty by a margin of 4 to 1 over any other area.
What is the APA?
This person emphasized the influence of the "unconscious" on behavior.
Who is Freud?
This type of memory is responsible for holding information temporarily while it is being actively manipulated.
What is working memory?
This animal is considered intelligent enough to understand the human language and quite accurately mimic it.
What is a parrot/macaw?
A cognitive bias that inflates ones self-esteem by attributing their successes to internal factors and attributing their failures to external factors.
What is self-serving bias?
Beyond academic credentials, a clinical psychologist must have ____ in order to practice independently.
What is a state licensing board certification?
This is the third tier on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
What is love and belonging (social needs)?
This cognitive bias involves favoring information that confirms preexisting beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence.
What is confirmation bias?
This animal was studied in the 1950s by Harry Harlow that examined (animal)’s attachment to their mother with one mother being made of cloth that provided no food, and another that was made of wire that provided food.
What is a monkey?
An experiment that studied one's obedience to authority where a "teacher" was instructed to shock a "student" every time they got a question wrong.
What is the Milgram experiment?
This projective test uses ambiguous or unstructured testing stimuli to which a person responds freely.
What is the inkblot (Rorschach) test?
This school of thought focused on how behavior helps people adapt to their environment. Hint: it draws on Darwin’s ideas.
What is functionalism?
This is the term for the inability to recall childhood memories before about age 3–4.
What is childhood (infantile) amnesia?
In operant conditioning studies with rats, this effect occurs when an animal exposed to uncontrollable shocks later fails to escape avoidable ones.
What is learned helplessness?
A phenomenon that people are less likely to help someone in an emergency when there are other people watching.
What is the bystander effect?
This personality inventory is an analytically derived test based on Jung’s psychoanalytic personality-type classification system.
What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?
This is the year that the American Psychology Association founded.
What is 1892?
This is the term for a mental framework that helps organize and interpret information.
What is a schema?
This insect performs a dance to communicate the direction and distance of food to others in its colony.
What is a honeybee?
A concept that explains how a person's sense of identity is shaped by social groups they belong to.
What is the social identity theory?
This person said, “It is my conviction that these mentally ill are intractable only because they are deprived of fresh air and liberty."
Who is Phillippe Pineal?
This is the name for Industrial/Organizational psychology’s division in the APA.
What is SIOP (Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology)?
This effect occurs when repeated exposure to a stimulus increases a person’s preference for it.
What is the mere exposure effect?