Psychology as a Science
This is a testable prediction about a future outcome.
A. Experimentation C. Empiricism
B. Projection D. Hypothesis
D. Hypothesis
Sensory memory that is acquired via eyesight.
Iconic memory
This refers to when a stimulus is added in order to increase the prevalence of a behavior.
A. Negative Reinforcement C. Positive Reinforcement
B. Positive Punishment D. Negative Punishment
C. Positive Reinforcement
Mark chooses not to steal from the store because it's against the law and violates social norms. What stage of moral development is he demonstrating?
A. Preconventional C. Postconventional
B. Conventional
B. Conventional
These are chemical signals that travel across the synapse and are influential in a variety of cognitive and bodily functions.
Neurotransmitters.
This is a functional explanation of interconnected facts that explains past data and allows to make predictions for future data.
A. Hypothesis C. Premonition
B. A Law D. Theory
D. Theory
What are the three steps of memory?
Encoding, storage and retrieval
John places a bowl of cattle feed in front of a calf and it begins to salivate. What factor below is being shown in this example?
A. Conditioned Response C. Unconditioned Response
B. Unconditioned Stimulus D. Conditioned Stimulus
B. Unconditioned Stimulus
List the three stages of prenatal development
Germinal, Embryonic, Fetal
What area of the brain is responsible for logical thinking, planning and decision making?
The Frontal Lobe
A statement that is testable and can be proven wrong/incorrect.
Falsifiability
This process describes splicing large amounts of information into smaller and more digestible pieces in order to make recall easier and increase the amount of information you can hold in your working memory.
Chunking
What is it called when the association between a conditioned stimulus and a conditioned response no longer exists and the conditioned stimulus no longer leads to a response?
Extinction
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete, Formal, and Post-Formal are all stages of what?
Cognitive Development
Anne is a taxi driver in New York City. She knows where to go when told to head over to the "Big Apple" - this vast knowledge of places located within NYC might be correlated with ____.
Size of her Hippocampus/the Hippocampus.
Able to be measurable and detectable by the senses.
Empirical
Describes a type of mnemonic where a person increasingly challenges themselves in order to enhance memory recall.
Desirable difficulties
Scientists are studying the eating habits of a rat. They have one rat in an isolated container and food will fall into the container during randomized periods of time. What is this an example of?
Variable interval
Personal Fable
Rachel gets into a car accident and hits the back of her head very hard. If the rear part of the brain developed a lesion, what might she struggle with?
Vision and coordinated movement.
This type of person will not believe any information that they are told regardless of how much evidence there is to back that information.
Cynical
This is the filter that determines whether or not sensory information is transferred into working memory.
attention
John uses the vending machine at AUM every single day. However, in the past 2 weeks, the vending machine hasn't been working and John stopped using the vending machine after trying to use it several times. The other day, John tried to use the vending machine again and was able to receive his food. He has since returned to using the vending machine every day. What is this an example of?
Spontaneous Recovery
Theory that describes how people decide what they value in life depending on how much time they have left to live.
Socioemotional Selectivity Theory
What area of the brain is highly implicated in speech production?
Broca's area.