180 Psychological Analogies

Monozygotic is to identical as ___ is to fraternal.

Dizygotic

Perfect positive correlation is to +1.00 as __ is to -1.00.

Perfect Negative Correlation

David Meyers is to happiness as __ is to death and dying.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Latency is to 4 as anal is to ___.

2

John Locke is to tabula rasa as __ is to g factor.

Charles Spearman

Freud is to psychosexual as Erikson is to ___.

Psychosocial

Cocaine is to dopamine as Nicotine is to __.

Acetylcholine

Awareness is to lucid dreaming as ___ is to latent dream.

Hidden

Alfred Binet is to IQ as ___ is to EQ.

Daniel Goleman

Dysphasia is to the spoken word as ___ is to the written word.

Dyslexia

Hunger is to eating as ___ is to full.

Satiation

Blood pressure is to non-conscious as ___ is to preconscious.

Something easily brought to mind

Height of wave is to amplitude as waves per second are to __.

Frequency

JND is to ___ as MMPI is to Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.

Just Noticeable Difference

Axis II is to personality disorder as Axis V is to ___.

Global assessment of functioning

The cerebral cortex is to higher level thinking as __ is to emotion.

Limbic system / Amygdala

Somatosensory cortex is to parietal lobe as motor cortex is to __.

Frontal Lobe

Puzzle box is to __ as Skinner box is to B.F. Skinner.

Edward Thorndike

Systematic procedures that cannot fail are to __ as time saving mental shortcuts is to heuristics.

Algorithms

Dysthymia is to depression as hypomania is to ___.

Bipolar Disorder

Bobo is to observational learning as visual cliff is to __.

Depth perception

Automatic is to implicit learning as intentional effort is to __.

Explicit memory

Radical determination is to behaviorism as __ is to the social-cognitive theory.

Reciprocal determinism

Depression is to serotonin as schizophrenia is to __.

Dopamine

Sleep spindles are to __ as delta waves are to stage 4 sleep.

Stage 2

Type A is to aggressive as __ is to relaxed.

Type B

Resting potential is to polarization as action potential is to __.

Depolarization

Prediction is to correlation study as cause-effect relationship is to ___.

Experimental method/ experiment

Psychopath is to antisocial personality disorder as psychotic is to __.

Schizophrenia

Max Wertheimer is to Gestalt psychology as __ is to behaviorism.

John Watson

Natural observation is to description as correlation study is to __.

Prediction

Knowledge of how your memory works is to metamemory as knowledge of how you problem solve is to __.

Metacognition

Sensory neurons are to afferent as motor neurons are to __.

Efferent Neurons

Freud is to psychoanalysis as __ is to depression.

Gustav Fechner

Consistency is to reliability as accuracy is to __.

Validity

GABA is to Huntington's disease as __ is to depression.

Serotonin/ norepinephrine

Occipital Lobe is to vision as __ is to hearing.

Temporal Lobe

Cerebellum is to little brain as homunculus is to __.

Little man

The amygdala is to fear as the __ is to memory.

Hippocampus

Physical stimulation is to sensation as interpretation is to __.

Perception

Photoreception is to vision as __ are to hearing.

Hair cells

Valium is to anxiety as Paxil is to __.

Depression

Encoding is to memory as __ is to sensation.

Transduction

Variable-ratio is to slot machine as __ is to factory piecework.

Fixed-ratio

The MMPI is to objective test as the TAT is to __.

Projective Test

Cone is to color as rod is to ___.

Black and White

Tympanic membrane is to middle ear as cochlea is to ___.

Inner ear

Self actualization is to top as __ is to bottom.

Biological needs

Michael Gazzaniga is to split-brain research as __ is to id, ego, superego.

Sigmund Freud

Id is to pleasure principle as ego is to __.

Reality Principle

Mid-life crisis is to middle adulthood as reassessment is to __.

Late adulthood

Paradoxical sleep is to __ as manic-depression is to bipolar disorder.

REM sleep

Tree is to sky as __ is to ground.

Figure

Empathy is to __ as free association is to psychoanalysis.

Humanism

Bird is to concept as Robin is to __.

Prototype

Infinte is to __ as 2 is to STM.

LTM

Stanley Milgram is to obedience as __ is to cognitive dissonance.

Leon Festinger

James-Lange is to physiological first as __ is to simultaneous.

Cannon Bard

The study of brain structures is to biological psychology as the study of mental abilities is to __.

Cognitive psychology

The Wright brothers are to aviation as __ is to psychology.

Wilhelm Wundt

Regulation of thirst is to hypothalamus as relay of messages is to __.

Thalamus

Range is to measure of variability as mode is to __.

Measure of central tendency

MAOI is to monoamine oxidase inhibitor as SSRI is to __.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

Long-term is to storage as acoustic is to __.

Sensory

The removal of a chore is to __ as the adding of a chore is to positive punishment.

Negative reinforcement

Expectations and knowledge are to top-down processing as the color and shape are to ___.

Bottom-up processing

A fast response rate is to ratio schedule as a steady/constant response is to __.

Interval Schedule

Max Weber is to Weber's law as __ is to the law of effect.

Edward Thorndike

The conscious mind and the physical brain are to the mind-body problem as stage theories and continuous development are to the __.

Stage continuity problem

Perceptual experiences lacking sensory stimuli are to __ as false beliefs are to delusions.

Hallucinations

Insomnia is to sleep disorder as ADHD is to __.

Developmental disorder first diagnosed in infancy

SRRS is to stress as MMPI is to __.

Personality

Multifactorial is to the biopsychosocial model as predisposition is to the __.

Diathesis stress model

Dysthymia is to mood disorder as PTSD is to __.

Anxiety disorder

Collective unconscious is to Jung as inferiority complex is to _.

Adler

Picture is to visual encoding as general meaning is to __.

Semantic encoding

Alfred Binet is to the bell curve as __ is to the forgetting curve.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Loss after trauma is to anterograde as loss for events prior to trauma is to __.

retrograde

Aversive conditioning is to behavioral technique as RET is to __.

Cognitive therapy

Voluntary behaviors are to __ as involuntary behaviors are to classical conditioning.

Operant Conditioning

Cognitive maps are to latent learning as trains and tunnels are to latent __.

Dream content

Prefrontal cortex is to __ as the brainstem is to vital functioning.

Higher-level thinking

Norepinephrine is to mood as endorphins are to __.

Pain Reduction

Formation of new memories is to hippocampus as coordinated movement is to the __.

Cerebellum

Valium and Xanax are to benzodiazepines as Zoloft and Paxil are to __.

Antidepressants / SSRI's

Robert Sternberg is to the triarchic theory of intelligence as __ is to the triangular theory of love.

Robert Sternberg

The best of two desirable activities is to the approach-approach as the lesser of the two evils is to __.

Avoidance_avoidance

Optimal level is to arousal theory as rewards are to __.

Incentive theory

Experimental group is to treatment as __ is to no treatment.

Control group

Structure of consciousness is to __ as flow of consciousness is to functionalism.

Structuralism

Sticking to your guns even when proven wrong is to belief perseverance as only searching for a certain type of gun is to __.

Confirmation bias

Troubles falling asleep is to insomnia as sleeping too much is to __.

Hypersomnia

The study of human behavior is to psychology as the study of psychoactive drugs is to __.

Psychopharmacology

Circadian is to "about a day" as hypnosis is to__.

sleep

The ACT is to aptitude test as the Advanced Placement Psychology Exam is to __.

Achievement Test

Creating solutions is to divergent thinking as eliminating possibilities is to ___.

Convergent thinking

Piaget is to cognitive as Kohlberg is to __.

Moral

Attachment is to Harlow as hierarchy of needs is to__.

Maslow

Generativity vs. Stagnation is to __ as Integrity vs. Despair is to old age.

Adulthood

Paper and pencil are to the Stanford-Binet as blocks and pictures are to the __.

Wechsler Scales / Test