History and Research Methods
The science of behavior and mental processes is the definition of which field of study?
Psychology
Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy is called
Aggression
The hormone most closely related to one’s sleep patterns is:
Melatonin
The name of the transparent protective coating over the front part of the eye is:
Cornea
In Pavlov's famous classical conditioning experiment, this would be the UCS
The presentation of the food.
Which method should a psychology researcher use if she is interested in testing whether a specific reward in a classroom situation causes students to behave better?
Experiment
When we perform well on a task we typically attribute our success to our internal characteristics. This is known as:
Self Serving Bias
Damage to the hippocampus would result in what?
Memory problems
Neurons that fire in response to specific edges, lines, angles, and movements are called what?
Feature Detectors
Martin Seligman's concept where people try not to get out of negative situations because past experiences have shown them that they do not have control.
Learned Helplessness
According to the behaviorist perspective, psychological science should be rooted in what?
Observation
A person who agrees to a small request initially is more likely to comply with a larger demand later. This describes which phenomenon?
Foot in the door effect
What is the brief electrical charge that travels down an axon called?
Action potential
The process by which rods and cones change electromagnetic energy into neural messages is called what?
Transduction
This type of reinforcement schedule will yield a moderate, yet steady response rate
Variable Interval
Which psychological perspective is most likely to focus on how our interpretation of a situation affects how we react to it?
Cognitive Perspective
When making the “attribution error,” we tend to overestimate the importance of ( ? ) when judging the behaviors of others.
Personal Factors
Which part of the brain is responsible for combining sounds into words and arranging words into meaningful sentences?
Broca's Area
The intensity at which a sound becomes audible for a given individual is known as the individual's what
Absolute Threshold
This is the diminishing effect of a conditioned response that occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus.
Extinction
Which perspective would be most useful when explaining how people from different countries express anger?
Social - Cultural Perspective
JFK's Bay of Pigs failure was caused in large part by this social psych phenomenon:
Group Think
Significant damage to which of the following parts of the brain will most likely cause a person to fall into a deep coma from which the person will be unable to awaken?
Reticular Formation
The greatest density of cones exists in which part of the eye?
Fovea
This is the concept in conditioning when environments are not the whole story, and that species learn best when associations enhance their survival.
Biological predispositions