Problamatic place where the optic nerve leaves the retina
What is the blind spot
100
Neuron responses are characterized as
What is all or nothing responses
100
Group that does not get the experimental condition
What is the control group
100
In Pavlov's famous experiment the dog's salivation was
What is the conditioned and unconditioned response
100
Hypnosis has been found helpful to treat
What is pain
200
Eleanor Gibson used this to measure infants depth perception
What is the visual cliff
200
Dopamine, norepinephrine and acetylcholine
What are neurons
200
An experiment finds that children who grow up with a lot of books in their homes have higher grades. The conclude that having more books in the home leads to better grades. The have made an error because correlation does not always equal
What is causation
200
People sometimes commit aggressive, antisocial acts in large crowds that they would not normally
What is deindividuation
200
Persistent, repetitive thoughts that cannot be controlled are called
What are obsessions
300
Most common form of color blindness
What is red-green color blindness
300
A person with eye sight in only one eye suffers from
What is retinal disparity
300
A test to measure how much an individual knows about a specfic subject
What is achievement test
300
This is useful to help understand an employer's interpretation of an employee's poor performance
What is attribution theory
300
Cognitive theroy or depression says depression results form
What is misinterpretations of life events
400
A person is asked to listen to a series of tone that are at slightly different pitches and say where they hear a differnce. The experimenter is probably measuring
What is the difference threshold
400
increases the velocity of conduction of the action potential along tha xon
What is myelin sheath
400
The hypothesis that intelligence is in part inherited is best supported by the fact that IQ correlated highly to studies of these types of twins
What is identical twins raised apart
400
The technique of strengthening behavior by reinforcing successive approximations is called
What is positive reinforcement
400
Severly impaired interpersonal communication is common among people who suffer from
What is autism
500
If Carmelita states at a red spot for one minute and then shifts her gaze to a white piece of paper, the afterimage will be
What is green
500
Painkilling substances produced by the brain
What are endorphins
500
Which study had the most profound effect on ethical issues in psychology
What is Stanley Milgrim's study of obedience
500
Knowing the effectiveness of different strategies for learning statistical formals
What is metacognition
500
A man is given a shock every time he takes a puff of a cigarette. The behavior modification treatment he is being given is