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Mixed Bag
100
If a set of data is distributed normally, what % of data points lies between -1 and +1 standard deviations from the mean?
68%
100
A person with damage to Broca's area would most likely demonstrate which symptom?
Difficulty producing speech or written language
100
After spending hours in her kitchen preparing dinner, Rebecca no longer notices the strong smell of garlic until her guests arrive and mention the smell. Her failure to notice the smell of garlic illustrates
sensory adaptation
100
A mental image of a spatial layout is called a ____
mental/cognitive map
100
According to one theory of psychology, many people have mental illnesses because their maladaptive behaviors have proven rewarding for them in the past and thus have been continued. This belief is consistent with the ______ school of psychology
Behaviorism
200
What is the skew of this graph?
Negative
200
Which neurotransmitter is the major reducing neural activity in the human brain?
GABA
200
After Sharon stares at a patch of saturated green color for a brief period of time, she looks at a white surface and sees a red patch of color. This perceptual phenomenon is best explained by ________ theory
Opponent-processing
200
An individual’s fear of dogs that is lost as the individual is exposed to dogs in nonthreatening situations is referred to by behaviorists as a fear that has been _______________
extinguished (extinction)
200
A person displays a set of rare behaviors that psychologists had not known about previously, because nobody had ever shown them before. The best strategy to investigate the nature of those behaviors is
Case Study
300
A study where neither the researcher nor the participant know whether the participant belongs to the experimental or control condition.
double blind
300
A participant in a study of music perception listens to music with electrodes attached to her scalp while data are collected on the activity of her brain. This technique is called ___________
EEG
300
Damage to the ossicles leads to ____ deafness, while damage to the cochlea leads to _____ deafness
conductive, nerve
300
Learning that does not occur through trial and error is known as ______.
insight learning
300
Curare blocks action at acetylcholine synapses and causes paralysis. This drug is an example of an _______
antagonist
400
A psychologist gives the same test to a class of students at the beginning of the day and again at the end of the school day. The extent to which test scores are similar across the two administrations demonstrates that the test is _________.
Reliable
400
Name 2 effects the sympathetic nervous system has on the body.
Increased heartrate, decreased digestion, increased pupil size, blood flow to extremities, etc
400
What is the role of supercell clusters in perception?
Make up feature detectors, which recognize the angles, shapes, colors of objects, allowing for object recognition
400
For every 40 boxes of cookies a girl scout sells, she earns a bonus award. This follows the ____ schedule of operant conditioning.
fixed ratio
400
A type of observational study that analyzes data from a population, or a representative subset, at a specific point in time.
cross sectional study
500
Name the 2 founding schools of psychology, their founder and what their basic tenant was. (hint they were Wundt's direct students)
Structuralism: Edward Titchner (thought can be broken down into 'elements')
Functionalism: William James (all behavior serves an essential function from our evolutionary past)
500
Damage to which brain structure may cause the inability to detect the emotional significance of facial expressions, especially those demonstrating fear?
amygdala
500
What is Weber's Law? You must be precise.
The just noticeable difference (detect difference 50% of the time or more) between two stimuli is proportional to the intensity of the principle stimulus.
500
The theory that conditioning occurs only when one event reliably predicts another is known as the __________ model
Rescorla's contingency
500
The change in the physical structure of a neuron (more receptors, dendrites) that follows frequent activation of a nervous pathway is called
long term potentiation