Research People Terminology The Brain Psychological Disorders
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What is hypothesis
A specific prediction or statement of likelihood that a certain event will occur or that a given relationship will be found between two variables
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Who is Dr. Phil
Who said “The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.”
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What is psychology
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes-
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What is frontal lobe
What lobe of the brain is not fully developed in teenagers
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What is a phobia
When a person has an intense fear or dread that is irrational
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What is confidentiality
when you cannot give the identities of the participants in a research experiment?
200
What is a psychiatrist
Medical doctor who has clinical training and can treat neurological illnesses and can treat them with prescription drugs
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What is memory
Encoding, storing and retrieving information is this kind of behavior
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What is a neuron
The most basic cell of the nervous system
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What is hallucinations
Seeing or hearing things that are not really there. These are called
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What is unethical
If an experiment doesn’t follow guidelines and harms its subjects, it would be considered?
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Who is Wilhelm Wundt
Established the first psychological laboratory in Germany?
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What is nature
In the nature vs nurture debate: The way you were born
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What are neurotransmitters
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses-
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What is schizophrenia
What disorder is characterized by delusions, disorganized thinking, and disturbed perceptions
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Who is Philip Zimbardo
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards
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Who is Ivan Pavlov
The psychologist who discovered conditioning by using a bell and dogs who salivate?
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What is Afterimage
After you have viewed an image for a while and when the image is removed you see the complementary colors of that image?
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What is the cerebellum
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
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What is antisocial personality disorder
Most sociopaths suffer from this personality disorder-lack of empathy, little regard for others’ feelings
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What is Stanford Prison Experiment
the name of Zimbardo’s experiment where he made college students guards and prisoners
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Who is Sigmund Freud
the well-known psychologist who believed strongly in unconscious motives and used free association and dream analysis-
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What is cognitive
Behavior that has to do with an organism’s thinking and understanding; often private and unobservable-
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What is serotonin
The lack of what neurotransmitter can cause depression
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Who is Howie Mandel
Who was the gameshow host we talked about who suffers from OCD






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