Psychology
Psychology
Psychology
Psychology
Psychology
100
In a normal distribution, approximately this percentage of the population falls between one standard deviation below the mean and one standard deviation above the mean.
What is 68%?
100
Activation of this part of the nervous system is most likely to result in fear or aggressive behaviors.
What is the parasympathetic (nervous system)?
100
What type of data is appropriate to run a chi square analysis?
What is nominal level data?
100
This is the decrease in the strength of a response to a stimulus that has been presented repeatedly.
What is habituation?
100
In experimental designs, after participants are selected fro the population, this is used to create groups that are roughly equivalent before any manipulation.
What is random assignment?
200
People tend to date others of similar attractiveness. This tendency illustrates this phenomena related to interpersonal attraction.
What is the matching hypothesis?
200
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism are all part of this.
What are the Big Five Personality traits?
200
This perspective of psychology emphasizes the person as a whole and that people have an inborn tendency toward growth and enhancement.
What is the humanistic perspective?
200
This part of the neuron receives information directly from other neurons is called this.
What are dendrites?
200
This is a type of reactivity in which individuals modify or improve an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed.
What is the Hawthorne (or observer) effect?
300
This is an example of a positive symptom of schizophrenia.
What is a delusion or a hallucination?
300
This person has conducted extensive research regarding how misleading information can lead to errors in memory.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
300
Tricyclics and mono-amine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are both considered to be classified as this.
What are antidepressants?
300
This person was responsible for establishing many of the early hospitals for people with psychiatric disorders.
Who is Dorthea Dix?
300
This theorist proposed that observational learning is a major factor in behavior.
Who is Albert Bandura?
400
When a distribution is normally distributed, the is the mean in standard z units.
What is zero?
400
A passive response when confronted by exposure to an inescapable noise, followed by a continued passive response when the ability to escape the noise is presented is known at this psychological term.
What is learned helplessness?
400
This is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision.
What is the availability heuristic?
400
A cognitive bias that limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used is known as this.
What is functional fixedness?
400
This brain structure functions as a relay station for nearly all sensory information.
What is the thalamus?
500
This type of experimental research design tests the same people in each of the conditions.
What is within subjects design (aka correlated groups)?
500
This person is credited with the following saying " Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train hum to become any type of specialist I may select - doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant, an yes, beggarman and theif"
Who is John Watson?
500
The tendency for groups to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members is known as this.
What is group polarization?
500
Correlation does not imply this.
What is causation?
500
This is at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
What is self-actualization?
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