History of Psychology
This school of psychology, once dominant, soon became unpopular with the rise of cognitive psychology in the mid-20th century.
What is behaviorism?
The story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard details a horrible story of Dee Dee Blanchard, her mother, who claimed Gypsy had bunch of different severe illnesses when she did not. Gypsy ended up having to go through many surgeries, take a ton of medication and required a breathing machine to sleep. Her mother did this so she could get attention and sympathy. What OFFICIAL disorder was Dee Dee Blanchard diagnosed with?
What is Factitious Disorder imposed on others. (Munchausen syndrome by proxy)
What is the type of study that is the middle ground of an observational study and a laboratory study?
What is a field study?
What structure controls the pituitary, regulates emotions, and maintains homeostasis?
What is the hypothalamus?
What is the term for a preconceived judgement about a person or group, usually without factual support?
What is prejudice?
This person is famous for starting to conduct studies with rats to figure out learning mechanisms.
Who is B.F Skinner?
Who is the founder of traditional Cognitive behavioral therapy?
Who is Aaron Beck?
What is the type of study researchers use to see the differences between a species of animals? Commonly used to understand evolutionary adaptations.
What are comparative studies?
The inability to form new memories is characteristic of this type of amnesia, while the inability to recall past memories or events before an injury defines this other type.
What are anterograde and retrograde amnesia?
What term refers to a belief that one’s own culture or group is superior to others?
What is Ethnocentrism?
What school of psychology first introduced optical illusions and emphasized on how people perceived and understood patterns.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
What is the most effective treatment for specific phobias?
What is exposure therapy? (systematic desensitization, flooding, modeling, virtual reality)
What is the equivalent of a cross-fostering study in human study.
What is an adoption study?
Who is arguably one of the most famous cases of frontal lobe damage from a railway incident that caused extreme personality changes?
Who is Phineas Gage?
What is it called when a person changes their behaviors and beliefs to match those of a group?
What is conformity?
This discipline founded psychology before it emerged as an independent science in the late 19th century.
What is Philosophy?
A person experiences an extreme traumatic event, with continual vivid flashbacks of the traumatic event, it intrudes their sleep, they have intense physical reactions when they are reminded of the traumatic memory, and they try to avoid any trauma linked stimuli. This precedes for beyond 1 month. What disorder does this person likely have?
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
This type of communication, used by honeybees to convey the location of food sources, involves a specific series of movements.
What is the waggle dance?
What is the brain area that when damaged causes inappropriate social behavior and a complete loss of fear?
What is the amygdala?
What is the name of the phenomenon where people are less likely to help someone in need when there are other people around?
What is the bystander effect?
This person was revolutionary in many fields and said the famous quote, "Origin of man now proved, metaphysics must flourish. He who understands baboons will do more for metaphysics than Locke". He also set out the foundation of evolutionary psychology.
Who is Charles Darwin?
For 1 week +, This person is experiencing abnormal inflated, unrestrained or irritable mood with heightened energy and activity for the majority of every day. What is this person experiencing ?
50 years ago, 3 ethologists got a nobel prize in physiology or medicine, for their studies of animal behavior. What are the names of the researchers?
Who is Niko Tinbergen, Karl Von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz
One of the most famous memory cases, who was the patient who had epilepsy and had a bilateral surgical ablation of medial temporal lobe structures, including the hippocampus which caused anterograde amnesia?
Who is Patient HM (bonus for Henry Molaison)?
What is the name of the persuasion tactic that involves making a large request followed by a smaller request to increase the likelihood of complying with the second request?
What is the door-in-the-face technique?