Week 1: What is Psychology, Brain & Behavior
The correct term for the tendency to remember information that fit's one's expectations while ignoring discrepancies
What is confirmation bias?
These are brain wave patterns in stage 4 of sleep
What are delta waves?
The term for when I see a horse for the first time but call it a dog because it also has 4 legs and runs.
People perform tasks better in front of an audience than they do when they are alone.
What is social facilitation?
A disorder marked by persistent and excessive feelings of anxiety and worry about numerous events and activities
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Using a dice to decide who gets what level of the independent variables is known as what?
These are located on the retina and allow us to see colors and provide visual acuity
What are cones?
According to Freud, this consists of the thoughts, feelings, wishes, and memories of which we are largely unaware.
What is the unconscious?
This is another area of study within the field of social cognition that tries to explain how people determine the cause of what they observe.
What is the attribution theory?
This therapy theory would says Sean's has anxiety because he has an irrational belief that links an action with feeling anxiety.
What is rational emotive behavior therapy?
This variable includes different levels participants are assigned to. It causes changes in the outcome variable.
What is the independent variable?
A rapid test shows I have strep throat, but it turns out I don't have strep throat. What signal detection term demonstrates this?
Jim's parents add a chore when he breaks curfew. This is an example of what
What is positive punishment?
This theory combines principles with cognitive processes, socialization and modeling to explain behavior.
What is social learning theory?
This model on abnormality focuses on the behaviors people display and the thoughts they have
What is Cognitive-Behavioral?
This lobe of the brain is responsible for processing sensory information include touch, pain and temperature
What is the parietal lobe?
I have a string of random letters I need to memorize. I group them into meaningful units like words. This technique is known as:
What is chunking?
Joan works out everyday to reduce her stress. This habit is maintained by
What is a negative reinforcer?
This theory says that due to our physiological arousal and external cues we interpret the emotion we are feeling
What is the two-factor theory?
This model suggests that mental disorders result from a combination of genetic and environmental factors
What is the stress-vulnerability or diathesis-stress model?
This technique allows us to measure brain activity by detecting electrical activity using electrodes on the scalp
What is EEG?
I mishear the lyric "All the lonely Starbucks lovers". My friend tells me it is actually "Got a long list of ex-lovers" but I expect to hear it how I learned it even. This is known as:
What is a perceptual expectancy?
Every time you take a shower, someone flushes the toilet causing the water to turn cold. Now every time you hear a toilet flush you get cold. The toilet flush represents what.
What is the conditioned stimulus?
This type of love is associated with feelings of connectedness and affection
What is intimacy?
A pattern of disregarding or violating the rights of others. A person with this disorder may not conform to social norms, may repeatedly lie or deceive others, or may act impulsively.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?