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100

What does CBT stand for?

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

100

Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov is most famous for conducting experiments using what animals?

Dogs

100

What is the name of the famous prisoners and guards experiment that took place at an American University?

The Stanford Experiment

100
What connects the two sides of the brain?

Corpus Callosum

100

Humans perceive pain and ____ via very similar sensory mechanisms.

Heat

200

What's the "Inkblot test" also known as?

Rorschach Test

200

Who formed the hierarchy of needs?

Abraham Maslow

200

Name the two broad categories of research used in psychological studies.

Qualitative and quantitative

200

The process by which sensory receptors convert various forms of stimulus energy into electrical impulses that can be interpreted by the brain is known as what?

Transduction

200

The _____ _____ is what Freud describes when a boy develops an unconscious infatuation towards his mother, and simultaneously fears his father to be a rival.

Oedipus complex

300

Name 1 of the 2 disorders that were removed from the anxiety disorder section of the DSM and reclassified into different sections when the DSM-5 was published. 

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

300

Considered “founder” or “father” of psychology, he created the first formal lab for research in psych @ University of Leipzig.

Wilhelm Wundt

300

Using a 9-month-old baby, what did University Professor Dr. John. B. Watson prove with The Little Albert Experiment?

That classical conditioning could be used to create a phobia.

300

To the closest pound, how heavy is the average adult brain?

Three pounds

300

What does "DSM" stand for?

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

400

High-functioning autism used to be known as what?

Asperger syndrome

400
Who founded Psychoanalysis (talking therapy)?

Sigmund Freud

400

Psychologist Solomon Asch conducted notable experiments in the 1950s. What did he demonstrate that people would do to fit in with peers?

Provide blatant wrong answers

400

In which lobe of the brain is the somatosensory cortex located?

Parietal lobe

400

"Catching a yawn" is said to demonstrate what psychological phenomenon?

Empathy

500

In what year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?

1973

500

What is the name of Sigmund Freud's groundbreaking book on psychology?

Interpretation of Dreams

500

What is the name of the research study interested determining the extent to which individuals would obey authority figures, even when those orders conflicted with their own moral beliefs?

The Milgram experiment (Milgram Shock Experiment; Milgram Obedience Experiment)

500

How many cells are in the average human brain? (____ billion)

86 billion neurons

500

No person born blind has ever developed what mental health disorder?

Schizophrenia