Ancient philosopher who theorized about human memory, motivatiojn, and personality types.
Who is Aristotle?
100
This is "I knew it all along" phenomenon
What is Hindsight Bias.
100
This is a research technique for ascertaining self-reported attitudes usually by questioning a random representative sample.
What is a survey?
100
This erroneous theory believed that one's intelligence could be measured by examining bumps on the skull.
What is phrenology?
100
This portion of the brain is responsible for sensory integration and also seems to be involved in spiritual experience.
What is the temporal lobe?
200
Hippocrates theories that these four "humours" or "biles" determined human personality.
What are blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile?
200
This is a common error of human thinking that causes us to underestimate how long something will take.
What is overconfidence?
200
This is a term for a statistical measure of a relationship that shows how closely two values vary with each other.
What is a correlation coefficient?
200
The intricate fabric of neural cells that covers the cerebral hemispheres is called
What is the cerebral cortex?
200
This large band of neural fibers that allows communication between the right and left hemispheres
What is the corpus collosum?
300
This scientist established what is considered the first psychology lab in Leipzig, Germany in 1879.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
300
The scientific attitude has these three components.
What are curiosity, humility, and skepticism.
300
A perceived correlation that does not actually exist
What is an illusory correlation?
300
This is the term for the brain's capacity for reorganization following trauma
What is plasticity?
300
This condition results when the two hemispheres of the brain are isolated by cutting the neural fibers between them
What is split brain?
400
John B. Watson conducted this famous study that illustrated behavioral conditioning of fear.
What is the Little Albert study?
400
An observation technique that studies one person in depth is called a
What is a case study?
400
Any effect on a subject as a result of a pseudotreatment (fake treatment)
What is the placebo effect?
400
The brain has this extremely large number of neural cells
What is 100 billion
400
This type of scientist is an individual who studies brain functioning and its psychological effects
What is a neuroscientist?
500
This psychologist is the father of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
500
This research technique involves recording and observing behavior without trying to manipulate or control the situation.
What is naturalistic observation?
500
We cannot say that because two variables correlate with each other that one caused the other. This is the phrase commonly used to social science to express this axiom.
What is "correlation does not equal causation"
500
This man sustained the most famous case of frontal lobe damage causing personality changes.
Who is Phineas Gage?
500
Dr. David Eagleman of Baylor University found that intense memories are stored in this brain area?