Unit 1: Psychology's History and Approaches & Unit 2: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
UNIT 3: Biological Bases of Behavior
UNIT 4: Sensation and Perception
UNIT 5: States of Consciousness
UNIT 7A: Memory
100
This perspective is most concerned with how individuals interpret their experiences.
What is the Cognitive Perspective? (pages 10-11)
100
Information travels via these to reach the brain from the spinal cord.
What are interneurons? (page 61)
100
This refers to the minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50% of the time.
What is Absolute Threshold? (page 120)
100
This the type of brain scan is most likely to be used by sleep researchers interested in studying brain wave activities.
What is an EEG? (page 67)
100
Learning a new ATM password may block the recall of a familiar old password due to this type of interference.
What is Retroactive Interference? (page 283)
200
Psychologist who carefully watch the behaviors of chimpanzee societies in the jungle are using this research method?
What is Naturalistic Observation? (page 28)
200
This disease is most closely linked to an undersupply of serotonin.
What is Depression? (page 57)
200
These are the most light sensitive receptor cells in the eye.
What are Rods? (page 126)
200
According to Freud, this is the remembered story line of a dream.
What is the Manifest Content? (page 188)
200
The process by which information is encoded by its meaning.
What is Semantic Encoding? (page 261)
300
This procedure helps to ensure that the participants in the survey are representative of a larger population.
What is random sampling? (page 28)
300
These molecules are similar enough to a neurotransmitter to bind to its receptor sites on a dendrite and mimic that neurotransmitter's effect.
What is an Agonist? (page 57)
300
This theory argues that the retina contains three kinds of color receptors.
What is the Young-Helmholtz Theory? (page 132)
300
These are rhythmic bursts of brain activity that occur during Sleep Stage 2?
What are sleep spindles? (page 179)
300
This effect refers to the tendency for distributed study to yield better long-term retention than massed study.
What is the spacing effect? (page 260)
400
Psychologists discovered that wealthy people are less satisfied with their marriages then poor people are, this indicates that wealth and marital status have what type of correlation?
What is a negative correlation? (page 29)
400
This brain structure receives information form all of the senses except smell.
What is the Thalamus? (page 70)
400
If an artist were to draw THIS distance cue he would draw distant trees closer to the top of his canvas than the nearby flowers.
What is Relative Height? (page 155)
400
This class of drug is most likely prescribed as a pain killer.
What are barbiturates? (page 200)
400
Also called short-term memory, this is the part of memory that is characterized by active information processing.
What is Working Memory? (page 257)
500
To engage in this process one must examine assumptions, discern hidden values, evaluate evidence and assess conclusions.
What is critical thinking? (page 24)
500
This brain area is primarilyinvolved with understanding and producing meaningful speech.
What is Wernicke's Area? (page 80)
500
This type of sense helps you to recognize if your body is horizontal or vertical.
What is the vestibular sense? (page 142)
500
Due to its effect on this Sleep Stage, alcohol consumption disrupts the processing of recent memories into long-term memory
What is REM Sleep? (page 199)
500
This is the increase in synaptic firing potential that contributes to memory formation.