Unit 1
The variable in an experiment that is manipulated by the experimenter.
What is an independent variable?
This half of the brain is associated with creativity.
What is the right hemisphere?
The five basic senses.
What are smell, sight, taste, touch, and hearing?
Pavlov's dog demonstrates this type of conditioning.
What is classical conditioning?
A fill-in-the-blank question is an example of this type of memory.
What is recall?
The mode of the following set of numbers
2,5,5,6,9
What is 5?
A natural, internal process that regulates the sleep–wake cycle and repeats roughly every 24 hours.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
This nerve relays messages from your eyes to your brain to create visual images.
What is optic nerve?
Taking away something the subject dislikes to encourage a behavior.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
The three stages of memory storage.
What are encoding, storage, and retrieval?
This field of psychology examines how behaviors are learned and observed.
What is behavioral psychology/ behaviorism.
This lobe of the brain is responsible for auditory information.
What is the temporal lobe?
The five types of taste.
What is salty, sweet, bitter, umami, and sour?
This person conducted the bobo doll experiment.
Who is Albert Bandura?
The process of acquiring and understanding knowledge.
What is cognition?
This type of study analyzes data from a population at a single point in time.
What is cross-sectional study?
A languange disorder characterized by impaired language comprehension.
What is Wernicke's Aphasia?
Our sense of position, motion, and balance.
What is kinesthesia?
A partial schedule of reinforcement in which a response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses.
What is variable-ratio schedule?
This type of amnesia involves not being able to recall events that occured prior to the brain injury.
What is retrograde amnesia?
This person established the first laboratory dedicated to psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This railroad construction foreman had an iron rod driven through his skull.
Who is Phineas Gage?
These principles describes how humans group similar elements, recognize patterns and simplify complex images when we perceive objects.
What is Gestalt Principles?
The behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control.
What is learned helplessness?
This person proposed the concept of a general factor of intelligence, denoted by "g".
Who is Charles Spearman?