People
Theories
Biases and Effects
Intelligence
Research
100

He is known for developing a theory of psychosocial development that outlines eight stages from infancy to late adulthood.

Who is Erik Erikson?

100

This theory suggests that emotion follows physiological response.

What is the James-Lange theory of emotion?

100

This cognitive bias involves favoring information that confirms your preexisting beliefs.

What is confirmation bias?

100

This term refers to a person's overall mental capacity, often measured by IQ.

What is general intelligence (g factor)?

100

This variable is manipulated in an experiment.

What is the independent variable?

200

She conducted a famous study on attachment using "strange situation."

Who is Mary Ainsworth?

200

Piaget’s theory of cognitive development includes this stage where object permanence is learned.

What is the sensorimotor stage?

200

This is the tendency to overestimate how much others notice our appearance or behavior.

What is the spotlight effect?

200

He argued for multiple intelligences, including musical, spatial, and bodily-kinesthetic.

Who is Howard Gardner?

200

In this type of study, neither participants nor researchers know who is in the control or experimental group.

What is a double-blind study?

300

Known for the hierarchy of needs.

Who is Abraham Maslow?

300

This theory explains how we detect a faint stimulus amid background noise, depending on factors like attention, expectation, and motivation.

What is signal detection theory?

300

The tendency to believe, after learning the outcome, that you could have predicted it.

What is hindsight bias?

300

The WAIS and WISC are types of these tests.

What are intelligence tests?

300

This group that receives no treatment in an experiment.

What is the control group?

400

This psychologist developed operant conditioning and the operant conditioning chamber.

Who is B.F. Skinner?

400

According to this theory, we imitate behaviors we observe in others, especially if they are rewarded.

What is social learning theory?

400

This effect describes the tendency to recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items.

What is the serial position effect?

400

This type of intelligence involves the ability to reason quickly and abstractly, and it tends to decline with age.

What is fluid intelligence?

400

This process ensures that participants in an experiment are equally likely to be placed in any group, helping to reduce bias.

What is random assignment?

500

She identified three primary parenting styles: authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative.

Who is Diana Baumrind?

500

This theory of color vision states that we perceive colors in opposing pairs, such as red-green and blue-yellow.

What is the opponent-process theory?

500

This effect refers to our unconscious tendency to mimic the behaviors, postures, or mannerisms of others in social interactions.

What is the chameleon effect?

500
In the original formula for one's IQ, this was divided by chronological age and then multiplied by 100.

What is mental age?

500

This is the process of repeating a research study to see whether the original findings can be reproduced.

What is replication?

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