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
A sudden loss of muscle control
What is cataplexy?
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
Involuntary muscle spams of the whole body that jolts a person completely awake
What are myoclonic jerks?
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 nineteenth-century theory that bumps on the skull reveal a person's abilities and traits
What is phrenology
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
Some opiate drugs have molecular structures so similar to endorphins that they mimic endorphin's euphoric effects in the brain, making these opiate drugs a specific kind of molecule
What is an agonist
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 CNS-stimulant is used for narcolepsy and shift work sleep disorder because it promotes wakefulness
What is modafinil?
600
The most frequent occurring score in a distribution is
What is a mode?
600
After a car swerves in front of you on the highway, you notice that your heart is still racing, even though you know you are no longer in danger. The physical symptoms of fear linger even after we cognitively realize the danger has passed, because of a reason.
What is endocrine messages tend to outlast the effects of neural messages
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
This is insomnia that occurs due to things like jet lag, changes in work shift, excessive noise, unpleasant room temperature, stressful life events, acute medical/surgical illnesses, and medications.
What is transient insomnia?
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
A picture of a cat is briefly flashed in the left visual field and a picture of a mouse if briefly flashed in the right visual field of a split-brain patient. The individual will be able to use her ___
What is right hand to indicate she saw a cat
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
This stage of sleep has delta brain waves. It is considered this stage when 20 percent of brain activity shows delta waves, and is referred to as slow-wave sleep
What is NREM Stage 3?