Biological Approach
What is the term for chemical messengers that transmit signals across a synapse?
Neurotransmitter
What is the difference between 'enculturation' and 'acculturation'?
Enculturation: learn own culture
Acculturation: adapting to another culture
How do you call a mental framework that helps us organize and interpret information?
Schema
What does it mean when there is a negative correlation?
When one variable increases, the other decreases.
Name the study that used an MRI to study on taxi drivers in London?
Maguire et al (2000)
What psychological concept do the Asch studies measure?
Conformity
What does CBT stand for?
Cognitive behavior therapy
What is it called when neither the participants nor the researchers know who is receiving treatment?
Double-blind procedure
What is it called when the brain rearranges its neural connections due to new information or injury?
Neuroplasticity
What is one cultural dimension besides individualism/collectivism?
Power distance; uncertainty avoidance; long/short-term orientation; indulgence/restraint; masculine/feminine
What does the acronym MSM stand for?
Multistore model
After a botched surgery left him with anterograde amnesia, he was studied for years.
HM (Milner study)
What is the difference between a retrospective and a prospective study?
Prospective: gathering data as it becomes available
Retrospective: using data that already exists
Who conducted the 'sweaty t-shirt' study?
Wedekind et al (1995)
What famous researchers proposed the social identity theory?
Tajfel & Turner (1979)
Which researcher did the "War of the Ghosts" study?
Bartlett (1932)
What does the term 'bidirectional ambiguity' mean?
Impossible to tell which variable influences the other
What brain region is responsible for transferring information from short-term memory to long-term memory?
Hippocampus
What famous psychological theory did Bandura propose?
Social Learning Theory (or Social Cognitive Theory)
Who proposed the "working memory model"?
Baddeley & Hitch (1974)
This type of cell is the basic building block of the brain
Neuron