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This Russian physiologist discovered that dogs could learn to salivate at the sound of a bell after it was repeatedly paired with food.
- Ivan Pavlov
- B.F. Skinner
- John Watson
- Albert Bandura
This bias causes you to favor information that confirms your existing beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence.
- Confirmation Bias
- Hindsight Bias
- Availability Heuristic
- Attribution Error
This Swiss psychologist proposed that children construct knowledge through stages of cognitive development.
- Lev Vygotsky
- Erik Erikson
- Jean Piaget
- Sigmund Freud
This fundamental spy skill involves creating a connection of trust and mutual understanding with a target to make them more willing to share information.
- Rapport building
- Interrogation
- Surveillance
- Cryptanalysis
This concept explains why people work less hard on a group project than they would if personally accountable for the outcome.
- Bystander effect
- Social loafing
- Diffusion of responsibility
- Free riding
This Swiss psychiatrist founded analytical psychology and introduced concepts like the collective unconscious and archetypes.
- Carl Jung
- Sigmund Freud
- Alfred Adler
- Wilhelm Reich
This negotiation outcome occurs when both parties leave with more value than they started with, often called a "win-win."
- Integrative agreement
- Distributive agreement
- Zero-sum agreement
- Positional agreement
This four-letter acronym describes a condition where someone experiences flashbacks, nightmares, and severe anxiety after a terrifying event.
- PTSD
- ADHD
- OCD
- MDD
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