Memorize these and recognize 28.0% of all Psychology clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carl Jung | 9 | This Swiss man brought the terms introvert & extrovert into psychology |
| 2 | the id | 6 | Freud theorized that the "instinctual & infantile" drives are located in this part of the mind |
| 3 | Sigmund Freud | 6 | Jung & Adler both broke from him to form their own schools of thought |
| 4 | schizophrenia | 5 | ( Hi, I'm Kimberlin Brown, not a real psychiatrist, but I play one on TV.) Symptoms of this mental illness, from the Greek for "split mind", include m... |
| 5 | dreams | 5 | The famous 1899 paper on "The Interpretation of" these was received better by the public than by psychologists |
| 6 | amnesia | 5 | The anterograde type of this disorder is marked by the inability to remember new information |
| 7 | B.F. Skinner | 5 | This American behaviorist is famous for the "box" he invented |
| 8 | anxiety | 5 | Psychiatric term for anxiety an infant may experience when removed from its mother |
| 9 | work | 4 | An erg is a unit of this; ergo, ergophobia is a fear of it |
| 10 | sibling rivalry | 4 | It's jealousy between brothers & sisters based on their competition for attention |
| 11 | memory | 4 | If you know the word for this, it was stored in your long-term section of it, not the short-term |
| 12 | Pavlov | 4 | Edwin B. Twitmyer & this Russian independently came up with "conditioned response" discoveries |
| 13 | libido | 4 | Freud's term for the sexual drive |
| 14 | Rorschach | 4 | Because he liked to sketch in school, he was nicknamed Kleck, which means "inkblot" |
| 15 | The Interpretation of Dreams | 3 | The Academic American Ency. says this 1900 major work by Freud earned him only $209 in royalties |
| 16 | Stockholm Syndrome | 3 | Many speculate that Belle in "Beauty and the Beast" has this syndrome identified in the 1970s; Emma Watson weighed in to disagree |
| 17 | pleasure | 3 | Algophobics fear pain & hedonophobics fear this |
| 18 | grandeur | 3 | A false belief that one is very important or famous is usually called a delusion of this |
| 19 | manic depression | 3 | 1 who suffers from periods of depression alternating with periods of excitement |
| 20 | inferiority complex | 3 | A paralyzing fixation on one's inadequacies is this type of complex |
| 21 | fire | 3 | If you have pyrophobia & go camping, don't sit here |
| 22 | a phobia | 3 | An anxiety disorder characterized by intense, irrational fear of a specific thing |
| 23 | transference | 2 | In psychoanalysis, this term refers to a patient projecting emotions from a previous relationship onto the therapist |
| 24 | the Rorschach test | 2 | This test uses 10 inkblots in the study of personality disorders |
| 25 | the pleasure principle | 2 | In 1986 Janet Jackson sang about this Freudian "Principle" |
| 26 | the control group | 2 | Term for reference group to which experiment results of the treated group are compared |
| 27 | The color purple | 2 | Oprah's lucky she didn't suffer from porphyrophobia, fear of this, or she wouldn't have done the '85 film |
| 28 | Sybil | 2 | In 2011 a new book revealed that the woman who inspired this book & TV movie faked her multiple personalities |
| 29 | spiders | 2 | Arachnophobia |
| 30 | speaking | 2 | One of the most common of all, glossophobia is the fear of doing this in public |
| 31 | regression | 2 | When one abandons adult behaviors for more childlike patterns, he is exhibiting this defense mechanism |
| 32 | paranoid | 2 | Those who have this most common type of schizophrenia often suffer from delusions of persecution |
| 33 | pain | 2 | When the brain has incoming signals of this blocked in the spinal cord, the result is analgesia |
| 34 | Narcissism | 2 | This self-absorbed personality disorder is named for a mythical youth who loved his reflection |
| 35 | Kleptomania | 2 | It's an impulse-control disorder in which a person can't resist the sudden urge to steal |
| 36 | inkblots | 2 | The name Rorschach is indelibly associated with tests using these irregular shapes |
| 37 | hypochondria | 2 | Originally the part of the abdomen where melancholy sat, it now refers to imaginary illnesses |
| 38 | hypnosis | 2 | Freud stopped using this technique to bring out hidden memories when he turned to free association |
| 39 | hydrophobia | 2 | Another term for rabies, it's also the fear of water |
| 40 | horses | 2 | Hippophobia isn't the fear of hippopotami but of these |
| 41 | hoarding | 2 | The DSM-5 psychiatry text defines it as "persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions" |
| 42 | Halloween | 2 | Samhainophobia: This holiday |
| 43 | Ghosts | 2 | If you have phasmophobia, fear of these, stay out of haunted houses |
| 44 | gestalt | 2 | Kurt Koffka was a leader in this system of psychology whose name is German for "form" or "shape" |
| 45 | fog | 2 | A nebulaphobe is frightened of this, even when it "comes on little cat feet" |
| 46 | dust | 2 | If you've got amathophobia, a fear of this, you might also fear Genesis 3:19, which tells us we'll all return to it |
| 47 | dissonance | 2 | Leon Festinger said people who smoke knowing it's not healthy experience "cognitive" this |
| 48 | denial | 2 | Anna Freud wrote, "The infantile ego resorts to" this behavior "in order not to become aware of some painful impression" |
| 49 | delusion | 2 | A false belief, of grandeur, for example |
| 50 | dancing | 2 | Chorophobia is the fear of doing this; sometimes it can be overcome by taking certain lessons |
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