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John Locke argued that the mind at birth is a what, on which experience is written?
Blank Slate
Which of our senses is also known as the Olfaction sense?
Smell
Which early psychologist felt that fluid in the brain contained “animal spirits” that flowed from the brain through body, causing us to move?
Rene Descartes
Which early scientist’s contributions to the nature – nurture debate led to evolutionary psychology?
Charles Darwin
What is a branch of medicine dealing in psychological disorders?
Psychiatry
What is a procedure is an experiment procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment?
Double Blind
What sleep disorder is when people have sudden attacks of overwhelming sleepiness?
Narcolepsy
Our bodies roughly synchronize with the 24-hour cycle of the day and night thanks to an internal biological clock called what?
Circadian Rhythm
What are the bursts of rapid, rhythmic brain-wave activity that take place during NREM-2?
Sleep Spindles
Which Ancient Greek philosopher concluded that the mind is separate from the body and therefore knowledge is born in us?
Socrates
Which dream theory states dreams preserve sleep and provide a “psychic safety valve,” expressing otherwise unacceptable feelings?
Freud's Wish-Fulfillment
What is it called when we focus our conscious awareness on a particular stimulus?
Selective Attention
What is a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid punishment?
Extrinsic Motivation
According to Gustav Fechner, what is the minimum stimulation necessary to detect a particular sense 50 percent of the time?
Absolute Threshold
Which Psychologist is most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning?
B.F. Skinner
What are the three roadblocks to critical thinking?
Hindsight Bias
Overconfidence
Perceiving order in random events
The three major categories of psychoactive drugs are what?
Depressants
Stimulants
Hallucinogens
What are the two main forms of condition learning?
Classical Conditioning
Operant Conditioning
What are the 3 types of scores used to summarize data when measuring central tendency?
Median
Mode
Mean
In classical conditioning, what is the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response called?
Acquisition
What are the 5 steps to critical thinking?
Examine Assumption
Appraise the source
Discern Hidden Biases
Evaluate Evidence
Assess Conclusions
What are the four ethic codes psychologists should follow when doing experiments on humans?
Obtain Participant's' informed consent.
Protect participants from greater than usual harm or discomfort.
Keep information about individual participants confidential.
Fully debrief people after.
What are the five possible reasons psychologists give for our need to sleep?
Restore and rebuild fading memories of the day
Feeds creative thinking
Supports growth
What are the 6 monocular cues we depend on?
Relative Height
Relative Size
Relative Motion
Interposition
Linear perspective
Light and Shadow
What are the three most testable and relevant ESP claims?
Telepathy
Clairvoyance
Precognition