Intro to Psych
A fake Experimental condition
Placebo
This concept in psychology was addressed in the case study of Genie
Critical Period
The brain's biological clock
Circadian Rhythm
Blinking in response to a puff of air directed to your eye is considered
Unconditioned Response
This memory technique places items into smaller and more manageable units
Chunking
Long-term study with participants over multiple years
This psychological concept, common in animals, leads a duckling follow its’ mother
Imprinting
The number of NonREM sleep cycles
3
Winning money at a slot machine is an example of this type of schdule
Memories that are information that you must actively think about to retrieve
Explicit Memory
In this type of experiment, neither the researcher nor the subjects have knowledge who is receiving the Independent Variable being studied.
Double-Blind Experiment
This is Erikson’s term for the lack of growth or productivity in middle adulthood is referred to as
Stagnation
The type of drugs used to block naturally produced neurotransmitters
Antagonist Drugs
After being conditioned by John Watson and his team, Little Albert became scared of dogs, monkeys, a santa mask, and rabbits as a result of
Generalization
The cognitive processing of a stimulus that focuses on meaningful properties of the item.
Deep Processing
Which psychologist most likely said "I believe that one's behavior is determined not by what one actively thinks about but rather unconscious desires and motives ."
Sigmund Freud
Erik Erikson would argue this age group goes through the Generativity vs. Stagnation stage
Middle Age
Addiction is most highly associated with
Genes
After being bitten by his neighbor’s dog, Miguel experienced fear at the sight of that dog but not at the sight of other dogs. This best illustrates the process of
Discrimination
The very brief (less than a second) storage of auditory and visual information that comes from a stimulus
Sensory memory
To describe the behavior of chimpanzees in their native habitat, researchers are most likely to make use of which research method?
Naturalistic Observation
This is the order of the five stages of grief as defined by Kübler-Ross
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
What are considered the 3 of the 4 major categories of drugs?
Depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens
This theory of intelligence says that all humans have distinct and separate types of intelligence that are unrelated by each other
Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory
This type of amnesia causes someone to not be able to encode any new information
Anterograde amnesia