SOCIAL
What is the phenomenon where you start liking a song after hearing it repeatedly on the radio?
What is mere-exposure affect
What is the range of the numbers 5, 8, 3, 4, 9, 12, 11
What is 8
What is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce?
What is natural selection
What term describes the smallest change in a stimulus that can be detected 50% of the time?
What conditioning type did Pavlov use to teach dogs to drool at the ring of a bell?
What is classical conditioning
What phenomenon was demonstrated when participants in an experiment chose to administer the highest possible level of voltage charge to the learners because of being pressured?
What is Obedience
Involving an in-depth and detailed examination of a single subject, or case, usually an individual or a small group.
What is case study?
Term used to describe the symptoms that occur when a person ends the use of an addictive substance.
What is withdrawls
What is the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time?
What is absolute thresholod
The cessation of a learned response, usually resulting from an end to conditioning.
What is extinction
A phenomenon that occurs when a group of people make irrational decisions spurred by the urge to conform.
What is group think
What is it called when a participant doesn’t have treatment but has effects from believing they have
What is the placebo method/effect
A hormone in adrenal glands to prepare for stress or danger, also known as the “fight or flight” response.
What is adrenaline
Not being able to see objects from afar
A state that occurs after a person has repeatedly experienced a stressful situation that causes them to stop trying
What is learned helplessness
People often have expectations about another person that influence how they act toward that person. Such expectations in turn cause that person to behave consistently with the original expectations. The phenomenon is known as
What is self fulfilling prophecy
This occurs when scientists' hypotheses influence results voluntarily or involuntary
What is experimenter bias?
A state of recovery that occurs after a neuron has fired an action potential
What is the refractory period
Spot in the retina where the optic nerve connects.
What is blind spot.
A form of learning that occurs without any obvious reinforcement of the behavior or associations that are learned
What is latent learning
What is the term for the mental conflict that arises when a person holds conflicting attitudes or when behavior is inconsistent with attitudes?
What is cognitive dissonance
A personality theory that explains behaviors by looking at unconscious drives and feelings
What is psychoanalytic theory
Any abnormal damage or change in the tissue of an organism, often caused by disease or trauma.
What is lesioning
What depth cue allows us to perceive the distance of objects based on the size of their image on the retina, with larger objects being perceived as closer and smaller objects as farther away?
What is relative side
The tendency of learned, reinforced behavior to gradually return to a more innate behavior
What is instinctive drift