An early school of psychological thought that often used introspection and sought to understand consciousness by breaking down experience into its most “elemental” parts.
What is structuralism?
100
A researcher is interested in learning about how marijuana usage may influence college students’ grades. Which type of research study would be the best approach for investigating this question?
What is survey/correlational research?
100
The region of the brain primarily responsible for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
100
The neuroimaging technique that measures brain waves on the outside of the head.
What is EEG?
100
Camouflage makes it difficult to perceive the ____ from the ______
What is figure and ground?
200
Different research perspectives and methods, such as biological, psychological, social, and cultural, that often interact to form psychological theories.
What are levels of analysis?
200
What is the best explanation for why eating ice cream may be associated with increased murder rates?
What is the third variable problem?
200
A disease caused by the shortage of the neurotransmitter dopamine
What is Parkinson's Disease?
200
A stage of sleep associated with dreaming and beta waves.
What is REM sleep?
200
The name of the process in which a physical stimulus is converted into a neural signal.
What is transduction?
300
Free association is a part of what method developed by Sigmund Freud for bringing awareness to unconscious drives and conflicts?
What is psychoanalysis?
300
The association between hand-eye coordination and concern for the environment would likely result in what type of correlation?
What is zero correlation?
300
The removal of brain connections that are not used in order to make the brain more efficient
What is synaptic pruning?
300
The theory that attention is like a gate which opens for important information and closes for unimportant information.
What is Filter Theory?
300
If your friends pointed out that you recently got a haircut, what are they detecting?
What is just noticeable difference?
400
The school of thought whose most well known proponents are John Watson and B.F. Skinner.
What is Behaviorism?
400
A researcher notices that his subjects respond differently to an experimental stimulus when he is in the experimental room compared to when he sits behind a one-way mirror and watches his subjects from afar. What is likely going on?
What is participant bias?
400
List 4 modern brain imaging techniques
What are MRI, fMRI, PET, and EEG?
400
The ability to observe mental activity from a more distant perspective (i.e. perceive thoughts as mental events).
What is decentering?
400
Long wavelengths or “L” cones are sensitive to what color of light?