Research Methods
Biological Basis of Behavior
Memory
Developmental Psychology
Sensation & Perception
Consciousness
100
A group exposed to the treatment/experiment is known as the
What is the Experimental Group
100
The base of the brainstem is called what
What is the Medulla
100
The process of getting info out of your memory storage is called the
What is retrieval?
100
People behave the way they do because they are animals who act in accordance with their animal instincts and are determined by their biology is an example of
Nature
100
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus is called the
What is selective attention
100
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment is known as?
What is consciousness?
200
This image shows what type of research?
What is a survey?
200
What is the oldest part of the brain?
What is the brainstem
200
The conscious encoding of info, such as space and time is called the what?
What is automatic processing?
200
People behave the way they do because they are determined by the things other people teach them, the things they observe around them, and because of the different situations they are put in is an example of
What is Nurture
200
What starts at the sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing?
What is bottom-up processing
200
A social interaction in which one person (the subject) responds to another person's (the hypnotist's) suggestions that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur is called
What is hypnosis?
300
The repeating of a research study to see if the same findings extend to different participants and circumstances.
What is replication?
300
Which nervous system is responsible for calming the body?
What is the Parasympathetic nervous system
300
Where is the hippocampus located?
What is the temporal lobe
300
According to psychologist Robert Levant, which infants are more emotionally expressive?
What are males
300
A principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather than a constant amount) is known as the
What is Weber's law?
300
What is the suggestion made during a hypnosis session, to be carried out after the subject is no longer hypnotized; used by some clinicians to help control undesired symptoms and behaviors?
What is the posthypnotic suggestion?
400
The variable whose effect is being studied is also known as the
What is the Independent Variable
400
The neuron that carries information from the receptors to the brain is the
What is the Sensory Neurons
400
The tendency to recall experiences that are consisted with ones current bad mood or good mood is an example of
What is mood-congruent memory
400
In the nature versus nurture controversy, "nature" refers to
Heredity
400
Which part of the eye is the adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters?
What is the pupil?
400
A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others is known as
What is dissociation?
500
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score, what is this?
What is a standard deviation?
500
An undersupply of what neurotransmitter is linked with depression
What is serotonin
500
What is located at the base of your brain, where the brain stem connects the brain to your spinal cord?
What is the medulla
500
Which of the following is a similarity between the cognitive developmental theory of Piaget and the moral developmental theory of Kohlberg?
a. Both theories stress the importance of changes in thinking in their stages.
b. Both believe personality is formed in the first 5 years.
c. Both theories stress the importance of the third stage in the developmental process
What is A
500
Which two people received a Nobel Prize for their work on feature detectors?
Who are David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel?
500
This is known as the biological clock
What is cardiac rhythm?
600
The most frequent occurring score in a distribution is
What is a mode?
600
If you put your hand on an curling iron and immediately remove, this is an example of
What is a reflex
600
An area at the rear of the frontal lobes that control voluntary movement is what
What is the motor cortex?
600
Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant women's heavy drinking . In severe cases, signs include a small, out-of-proportion head and abnormal facial features is called what?
What is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)
600
A theory predicting how and when we detect the presence of a faint stimulus (signal) amid background stimulation (noise). Assumes that there is no signal absolute threshold and that detection depends partly on a person's experience, expectations, motivation, and alertness is known as
What is signal direction theory
600
Rapid eye movement sleep is known as
What is REM sleep?
700
A student grows two plants, for one plant we puts it closer to the sun and the other he puts in a dark room. They are watered the same amount everyday, what type of research is this?
What is an experimental research?
700
You hear screams in the distance and see a burning building, you start to run, what kind of response is this?
What is a flight or fight response
700
An adult suffers an awful spider bite when he was a kid. Now as an adult he develops a phobia for spiders and feels disgusted what is this an example of?
What is repression
700
Researchers were interested in studying the effects of divorce on children. Their study included 250 4-year-olds. Interviews and family observations were conducted 6 months, 2 years, 5 years, and 10 years after the initial interviews and observations. Which method did the researcher use?
What is the longitudinal method
700
What is the processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously; the brain's natural mode of information processing for many functions, including vision. Contrasts with the step-by-step (serial) processing of most computers and of conscious problem solving?
What is parallel processing?
700
Periodic, natural loss of consciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation what is this?
What is sleep?