Science & Data
A quantity/quality that can be measured, controlled, or changed.
What is a variable?
Created a theory of multiple intelligences
Howard Gardner
The two most widely-used sources of categories and criteria
What are the DSM-5 and International Classification of Diseases-10?
The chemical used by Schachter & Singer in their experiment advancing the Two-Factor Theory.
Adrenaline / Epinephrine
The two key components of mindfulness.
What are Acceptance and Attention?
Our expectation that the independent variable will not change the dependent variable, or that there will be no relationship between them.
What is the null hypothesis?
The mean and standard deviation of IQ.
100, 15
A historical example of psychosurgery that damaged the occipital part of the cortex.
What is lobotomy?
Ignoring a problem by distracting yourself with TV is an example of…
Emotion-focused coping
Another name for performance goals.
What are ego goals?
The four types of quantitative data.
What are nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio data?
The ‘floor’ and ‘ceiling’ that genetics place on intelligence, even in the perfect environment
What is the reaction range?
Judging what is normal based on the frequency of something in the population
What is the statistical approach to normality?
Creator of the psychological wellbeing model
Who is Carol Ryff?
The threat of punishment for not working, or for failing to achieve a goal, is ____________ motivation.
What is extrinsic motivation
A method that gives any participant an equal change of being placed in the experimental or control group.
What is random allocation?
Stanford-Binet intelligence tests measure participants against the norm for their _______
Age/age group
A personality disorder featuring extreme instability in mood and relationships.
What is Borderline personality disorder?
LeDoux’s ‘long route’ or ‘high road’ involves signals passing through two brain regions that the ‘short route’ does not involve.
Sensory cortex and hippocampus
The religion that 'inspired' non-religious mindfulness practices.
What is Buddhism?
A technique used to avoid order effects within repeated-measures designs.
What is counterbalancing?
The estimated heritability coefficient of intelligence
0.5 to 0.7 / 0.6 / 50-70% / around 60%
Phobia of teenagers, adolescents
What is Ephebiphobia?
Despite being poor, a country with high happiness is…
What is Bhutan?
The belief that a specific action will help you progress towards successfully achieving a goal.
What is outcome expectancy?