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Questions
- Name the neurologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs?
- Which Austrian psychiatrist developed a concept which became known as the Inferiority Complex?
- Which neurologist was the founder of psychoanalysis?
- Which psychologist invented the terms 'introvert' and 'extrovert'?
- What three letter acronym is a mental health condition where a person has compulsive behaviours and obsessive thoughts?
- What effect is when a person's mental or physical health appears to improve after taking a 'dummy' medication?
- Which president described American psychologist Timothy Leary as the "most dangerous man in America"?
- Tarantism is a psychological illness characterized by an extreme impulse to do what?
- A psychological response where a captor forms a positive connection with a victim is named after which city?
- Who in 1890 wrote The Principles of Psychology?
- Commonly used to treat anxiety what does the acronym CBT stand for?
- Which word coined by psychologist Carl Jung is also the title of a 1983 album by The Police?
- Which Dominican friar and classical scholar divided mental illness into melancholia, mania, and depression?
- Freud’s personality theory saw the psyche structured into three parts: the ego, superego, and what else?
- Which mental disorder is characterized with a general misperception of reality and by episodes of psychosis?
- Which complex or psychological state is when a person believes that he or she is a savior?
- Which phenomenon was once known as mesmerism, or animal magnetism?
- What is the fear of open spaces called?
- The Psychology of the Imagination is a 1940 book by which French philosopher?
- Who wrote the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at a time when changes were being made to the way psychiatry was being approached in America?
- What does ADHD stand for?
- Glossophobia refers to a strong fear of what?
- What is the irrational and persistent feeling that people are 'out to get you' even if there is no evidence?
- What term best describes the mental processes that take place in the brain?
- What term originated during World War I to describe a type of post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by many soldiers?
Answers
- Pavlov
- Alfred Adler
- Sigmund Freud
- Carl Jung
- OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)
- Placebo effect
- Richard Nixon
- Dance
- Lima (Lima syndrome) (It’s the opposite of Stockholm syndrome.)
- William James
- Cognitive behavioural therapy
- Synchronicity
- Thomas Aquinas
- Id
- Schizophrenia
- Messiah complex
- Hypnosis
- Agoraphobia
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Ken Kesey
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Public speaking
- Paranoia
- Cognition
- Shell shock