Famous Psychologists & Experiments
The father of psychoanalysis
OCD is also known as perfectionism
What is myth?
Social psychology focuses on this factor in predicting human behavior
What are situational factors?
This neurotransmitter is associated with mood, hunger, and sleep.
What is serotonin?
This disorder is associated with persistent sadness and loss of interest
What is major depressive disorder?
Who is Pavlov?
Opposites Attract
What is myth?
In large groups of people you are less likely to help in an emergency situation
What is the bystander effect?
This lobe of the brain is associated with executive functioning
This disorder is associated with alternating periods of manic and depressive episodes
What is bipolar disorder?
He/she conducted the bobo doll experiment
Who is Bandura?
REM stands for rapid eye movement
What is fact?
Only searching for information that coincides with your beliefs
What is confirmation bias?
Brain's ability to adapt and change as a result of experience
This is a schizophrenic delusion
The purpose of Milgram's prison experiment
What is the relationship between obedience and authority?
Personality Disorders are diagnosed before age 18
What is myth?
Attributing our successes to internal factors and failures to external factors
What is self-serving bias?
This is what EEG stands for
Electroencephalogram
This amnesia is stress induced and causes loss of personal information or traumatic events
What is dissociative amnesia?
She was the first female president of APA
Who is Mary Calkins?
The four major objectives of psychology are to describe, explain, predict, and change/control behaviors
What is fact?
Individuals don't work as hard in a group compared to working alone
What is Social loafing?
This is a function of the endocrine system
This personality disorder is characterized by excessive desire for attention, unstable emotions, and theatrical behavior
What is histrionic personality disorder?