Conditioning
This type of associative learning involves learning that two events occur together: linking two stimuli
What is classical conditioning?
A lack of this neurotransmitter is linked to depression.
What is serotonin?
This is an objective questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess traits.
What is a Personality Inventory?
This is the failure to notice the stimuli in our visual field due to our concentration is being focused elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?
This type of sample fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.
What is a random sample.
This type of associative learning that links the behavior with a consequence.
What is operant conditioning?
A disorder characterized by a range of symptoms, including hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking.
What is schizophrenia?
This reflects the common idea that good is rewarded and bad is punished.
What is the just-world phenomenon?
Mental frameworks built from our past experiences; they are essentially a cognitive structure based on an individual's experiences.
What is a schema?
This is when researchers look at many cases in less depth and ask people to report their own behaviors or opinions.
What is a survey
Any consequence that strengthens the behavior it follows.
What is reinforcement?
This disorder is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in activities.
What is major depressive disorder?
According to Freud, this part of his theory represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgement and for future aspirations.
What is the superego?
This is the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
This statistical measure (expressed as a r value) shows the strength and direction of a relationship between two variables.
What is a correlation coefficient?
Reinforcing behaviors that are increasingly closer to the desired behavior.
What is shaping?
This disorder is marked by alternating periods of extreme highs (mania) and lows (depression).
What is bipolar I disorder?
This term is used to refer to when others’ expectations of another individual affect the actions of that individual
What is Other-imposed self-fulfilling prophecy?
When a student uses prior knowledge and experiences to interpret information in a quick and efficient manner.
What is Top-down processing?
This is when one data set rises while the other falls.
What is negative correlation.
This is the stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response in classical conditioning.
What is the unconditional stimulus (UCS)?
A form of psychotherapy that helps to identify and change unhelpful thought patterns.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
The tendency to assume that the members of other groups are very similar to each other, particularly in contrast to the assumed diversity of the membership of one’s own group
What is Out-group Homogeneity?
This is the merging of retinal images by the brain.
What is convergence?
This phrase disproves the following information: Balding men have longer lasting marriages.
What is correlation is not causation?