Research Methods
A group exposed to the treatment/experiment is known as the
What is the Experimental Group
I introduced theories about the Id,Ego and Superego.
Who is Sigmund Freud
The process of getting info out of your memory storage is called the
What is retrieval?
This is the period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing.
What is puberty?
The focusing of conscious awareness on a particular stimulus is called the
What is selective attention
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment is known as?
What is consciousness?
This type of variable must be accounted for so that only the independent variable can make the observable changes in the dependent variable.
What is Confounding?
I frightened "Little Albert" during my experiment on classical conditioning.
Who is John Watson?
The unconscious encoding of info, such as space and time is called the what?
What is automatic processing?
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
What starts at the sensory receptors and works up to higher levels of processing?
What is bottom-up processing
What is a sleep disorder characterized by temporary cessations of breathing during sleep and repeated momentary awakenings?
What is sleep apnea?
The repeating of a research study to see if the same findings extend to different participants and circumstances.
What is replication?
I am best known for my Hierarchy of Needs.
Who is Maslow?
This part of the brain consolidates new memory.
What is the hippocampus?
In Piaget's theory, What is the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view ?
What are egocentrism?
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?
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?
The variable whose effect is being studied is also known as the
What is the Independent Variable
Who is Thorndike?
An example of this kind of memory is when you break up with your girlfriend and start to remember all the other times you got dumped...
What is mood-congruent memory?
In the nature versus nurture controversy, "nature" refers to
Heredity
Which part of the eye is the adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters?
What is the pupil?
A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others is known as
What is dissociation?
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score, what is this?
What is a standard deviation?
I wrote the first psychology textbook and, based on the theories of Darwin, came up with "functionalism"
Who is William James?
An inability to create new memories is called this.
What is anterograde amnesia?
What is the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects?
What is conservation?
The activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response is known as this...
What is priming?
This is known as the biological clock
What is circadian rhythm?
The most frequent occurring score in a distribution is
What is a mode?
My experiment on obedience was shocking!
Who is Stanley Milgram?
I can't remember my new gmail password because I keep thinking about my old one.
What is proactive interference?
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)
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
False sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus are known as...
What is hallucinations?
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?
My theory focused on introspection as a way to evaluate psychological response. (Wundt and I were pals.)
Who is Edward Titchener?
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
What is the decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. As infants gain familiarity with repeated exposure to a visual stimulus, their interest wanes and they look away sooner. ?
What is the habituation?
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?
Periodic, natural loss of consciousness resulting from a coma, general anesthesia, or hibernation what is this?
What is sleep?