Definitions
The process of getting information into memory
What is encoding?
Observing animals in their native habitats.
What is natural observation?
The researcher most closely associated with classical conditioning.
What is Ivan Pavlov?
When asked to describe a picture of two boys eating a cookie, the patient replied: "Mother is away her working her work to get her better, and two boys looking the other part." She has damage to this area of the brain.
What is Wernicke's Area?
Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity are major symptoms of this genetic disorder.
What is ADHD?
Feelings, often based on beliefs, that predispose us to respond in particular ways to objects, people, and events.
What are attitudes?
The use of experimental research instead of surveys helps researchers to explain this.
What are causes and effects?
Founder of the early school of psychology known as functionalism.
What is William James?
When a salesman comes to your door and asks you to try a free sample, you agree. Then, he returns a following week and asks you to buy an assortment of products, you also agree.
What is foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
The DSM-5 diagnoses according to this.
What is observable behaviors?
Our experiences, assumptions, and expectations may give us a perceptual set that influences what we perceive.
What is top-down processing?
In a drug treatment study, the control group gets a pill that has no medicinal value.
What is a placebo?
The approach that focuses on the unconscious mind and the thoughts and wishes of which we are largely unaware.
The last time you broke curfew, your parents grounded you for two weekends. Ever since, you are careful to come home on time.
What is operant conditioning?
A behavior is labeled a disorder when it is considered this.
A test that measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
The research method that helps collect peoples' attitudes and beliefs.
What is a survey/ questionnaire?
These psychologists study the physical, cognitive, and social changes throughout the human life cycle.
What are Developmental Psychologists?
After four years of working nights, Raymond now works days. He is having difficulty sleeping due to a disruption in this cycle.
What is circadian rhythm?
Which type of therapist would most likely try to understand an adult's disorder by exploring their childhood experiences?
What is a psychoanalyst?
The improved performance of learned tasks in front of observers.
What is social facilitation?
Students who study a list of terms in the morning, will recall more terms that students who study before bed.
What is the dependent variable?
What is the number of terms remembered?
This person would have been most likely to ignore mental processes and define psychology as the study of observable behavior.
Who is John B. Watson?
The presence of many bystanders at an emergency increases the likelihood that an individual will not perceive the situation as an emergency.
What is the bystander effect?
According to the _______, disorders are sicknesses that should be treated and cured.
What is the medical model?