Chapters 1, 2, & 3
This is the deepest stage of sleep?
What is NREM-3?
This type of study is most useful in understanding the roles of nature and nurture in a trait?
What are twin studies?
This researcher is famous for first having demonstrated classical conditioning in dogs.
Who is Pavlov?
This kind of test is designed to assess what a person has learned.
What is achievement test?
This part of our personality is said to operates on the pleasure principle and unconsciously strives to satisfy basic drives to survive, reproduce, and aggress.
What is the id?
This subdivision of the autonomic nervous system is most responsible for our "fight-or-flight" experience
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This is the proportion of variation among individuals that can be attributed to genes.
What is heritability?
This type of neuron may explain why modeling is such a powerful learning tool.
What are mirror neurons?
This is what Spearman called the one general intelligence factor that he believed is at the heart of everything a person does.
What is g factor?
This disorder is characterized by sudden episodes of intense dread accompanied by physical symptoms such as chest pain or the feeling of choking.
What is panic disorder?
Let's say that height and weight are perfectly correlated meaning that for each inch taller a person is, they always weight an additional 10 pounds. This would be the correlation coefficient for height and weight.
What is +1.00?
What is 15-months?
A child does not like eating broccoli. If they sit at the table with appropriate table manners throughout dinner, the child's parents take the broccoli off the child's plate and they do not have to eat. What kind of reinforcement or punishment is this?
What is negative reinforcement?
This is at the very top of Maslow's revised hierarchy of needs.
What is self-transcendence?
This is the most empirically validated personality test.
What is the MMPI?
A developmental psychologist is interested in how the activity level of 4 year olds may be affected by viewing a 30 minute video of SpongeBob SquarePants or a 30minute video of Sid the Science Kid. This is the independent variable in the study.
What is the type of video watched?
This allows neural tissue to change and reorganize in
response to new experiences.
What is plasticity?
This is what it is called when a student spreads their studying out over time instead of cramming the night before an exam.
What is the spacing effect?
This effect explains why facial expressions can trigger emotional feelings and signal our body to respond accordingly.
What is the facial feedback effect?
When a person with PTSD is always on high alert, looking for danger, even in places with a low likelihood of violence, it is called this.
What is hypervigilance?
This part of the neuron covers the axons (of some neurons) and helps speed neural impulses. Damage to it is implicated in cases of M.S.
What is the myelin sheath?
This Piagetian stage of development is recognized by
•Children learning to use language but not yet performing the mental operations of concrete logic
•Working on the concept of Conservation
•Experiencing Egocentrism
What is Pre-Operational?
This type of thinking narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution
What is convergent thinking?
This is when we are socially excluded and it can cause real physical pain as well as emotional pain.
What is ostracism?
This is when a patient is taught to associate a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing, anxiety-triggering stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?