Unit 1: Biological Psych
A stage of sleep associated with vivid dreaming and rapid eye movements.
What is REM?
Believing that plane crashes are common because you recently saw a plane crash on the news is known as…
What is the availability heuristic?
A student is given a spartan slip after cleaning up at lunch. The spartan slip is known as this type of reinforcement
What is positive reinforcement?
Sally is Italian and can easily tell Italians apart but struggles telling Portuguese people apart. This phenomenon is referred to as
What is the other-race effect?
Sally doesn’t study for her test because she believes the grade she’ll get is based purely on luck and fate, rather than effort and hard work. Sally has this type of belief.
What is external locus of control?
After a brain injury, the brain’s ability to reorganize itself and form neural connections is called what?
What is neuroplasticity?
At 5-8 months, our eyes learn to work together in helping us see objects three-dimensionally. What is this ability called?
What is depth perception?
A teacher provides a visual Venn Diagram on the white board to help students compare and contrast two things. This teaching technique is known as
What is scaffolding?
A song “grows on you” because it went viral on tiktok, even though you initially hated it. This phenomenon is known as
What is the mere-exposure effect?
The belief that expressing your aggressive emotions will release emotional tension is known as this
What is catharsis?
The difference between this measurement and an MRI is that this measurement tracks dynamic changes in brain activity through measuring blood oxygen levels over time.
What is an fMRI?
Reciting vocabulary words and solving a brand new puzzle use two different types of intelligence. Which intelligence is used when solving the puzzle?
What is fluid intelligence?
A child had a painful shot in the past and now becomes uneasy around doctors or any syringes. This reaction is known as a
What is a conditioned stimulus?
A long-distance couple breaks up because the emotional toll and financial expenses outweigh the benefits. This theory is known as
What is the social exchange theory?
A therapist exhibiting this therapy recommends a hoarder throws away 5 items to manage their hoarding problem.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This layer of the brain is responsible for higher-order thinking, language, and decision making.
What is the cerebral cortex?
The component of Baddeley’s working memory model that stores and manipulates both visual and spatial information is referred to as
What is the visuospatial sketchpad?
The idea that language shapes and influences how people think about the world is this
What is linguistic determinism?
This theory suggests that biological needs create internal tension that motivates behavior to reduce the need.
Mental health professionals use this updated diagnostic manual to classify psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-5-TR?
This part of the brain controls heartbeat, breathing, and other functions central to survival.
What is the medulla?
Elanor Gibson and Richard Walk used this experimental setup to study whether infants could perceive depth or not.
What is the visual cliff?
A rat learning the layout of a maze without rewards until later demonstrates this type of learning
What is latent learning?
This empirically derived test is often used to assess mental health and identify personality traits.
What is Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
A La Canada resident believes she is poor because her friend owns a mansion in Beverly Hills. This concept is known as
What is relative deprivation?