A phenomenon in which participants respond as though they were receiving real treatment, simply because they believe that they are.
What is the placebo effect?
100
The first psychosexual stage, wherein the id is focused on getting gratification via the mouth.
What is the oral stage?
100
The behaviorist who invented the operant conditioning chamber and described the schedules of reinforcement.
Who is B. F. Skinner?
100
The region of the neuron that determines whether the neuron will fire.
What is the axon hillock?
100
The scientific study of thought and behavior.
What is psychology?
200
In an experiment, the variable that is being directly manipulated by the experimenter.
What is the independent variable?
200
A defense mechanism in which unacceptable impulses are unconsciously replaced with their opposites.
What is reaction formation?
200
In classical conditioning, an unlearned response (such as drooling in response to food)
What is an unconditioned response?
200
A neurotransmitter, chemically related to THC, that helps regulate mood, movement, appetite, and pain.
What is anandamide?
200
The tendency to believe that you knew something all along (even though you did not).
What is hindsight bias?
300
A method used to help insure that the people belonging to the two groups in an experiment are about the same on average.
What is random assignment?
300
A group of unconscious thoughts and emotions revolving around the desire to possess one's mother; occurs during the phallic stage.
(Must pronounce the term correctly!)
What is the Oedipus Complex?
300
A behavioral therapy technique designed to treat specific fears and anxieties, by pairing the slow, systematic exposure to the anxiety-inducing stimulus with deep relaxation techniques.
What is systematic desensitization?
300
An area of the brain known to play an important role in processing memories. Named for its supposed resemblance to a sea creature.
What is the hippocampus?
300
A logical fallacy in which what was true in one case is assumed to be true for all cases.
What is the fallacy of anecdotal evidence?
400
An explanatory supposition used to generate testable predictions.
What is a hypothesis?
400
An explanation that is given only after whatever you are explaining has already occurred.
What is a post-hoc explanation?
400
The schedule of reinforcement that tends to produce very high, continuous rates of response, with no post-reinforcement pauses (and that is used in video games and gambling).
What is a variable ratio schedule?
400
A technique used for graphing the electrical activity of the head. (Give the full word, not just the acronym.)
What is a electroencephalography?
400
The two main psychologists credited for developing cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Who are Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck?
500
The principle that, all other things being equal, the simpler of two explanations is more likely to be true.
What is the the Principle of Parsimony?
or
What is Occam's Razor?
500
A patient of Joseph Breuer who gave Freud many of his ideas and who first used the term "talking cure."
BONUS: What was her REAL name?
Who is Anna O.?
Who is Bertha Pappenheim?
500
The principle that behavioral responses that bring about desirable outcomes will tend to increase in frequency, while behavioral responses that bring about undesirable outcomes will tend to decrease in frequency.
What is Thorndike's Law of Effect?
500
Loss of memory from the point of the trauma onward.
(An inability to form new memories.)
What is anterograde amnesia?
500
A branch of psychology (inspired largely by humanistic psychology) that is concerned with the study of psychological health and function, rather than psychological illness and dysfunction.