Psychology can trace its roots back to these two disciplines.
What is philosophy and biology?
100
This part of the neuron is responsible for receiving messages from other neurons and conducting impulses towards the cell body.
What are dendrites?
100
This experiment involved an infant remembering that if they kick their foot, they can make a mobile move.
What is the Rovee-Collier memory experiment?
100
(mental age/chronological age)100=
What is intelligence quotient (IQ)?
100
The left visual field goes to the _________ hemisphere.
What is right?
200
Remembering exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard about 9/11 is an example of this type of memory.
What is flashbulb memory?
200
You enter your neighbors house and smell a horrible smell, but after hanging out in the house for a while you no longer notice it. This is an example of _____________ ___________.
What is sensory adaptation?
200
In this stage of Piaget's cognitive development, you are able to think logically about concrete events.
What is concrete operational stage?
200
According to Freud, this part of your personality operates on the perfection principle. It is your ideal self or how you ought to behave.
What is super ego?
200
In a correlation, if a relationship is described as being negative, variable X ___________ as variable Y __________.
What is increases, decreases?
300
This man discovered the first neurotransmitter, acetylcholine.
Who is Otto Lowei?
300
This area of your brain is responsible for your vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
300
This kind of motivation involves performing a behavior for external rewards or to avoid punishment.
What is extrinsic motivation?
300
Experiment involving college students being placed into the role of prisoner or guard; they soon began to embody the role they were given.
What is Zimbardo's prison experiment?
300
Sweating, nausea/vomiting, rapid pulse, hand tremors, insomnia, physical agitation, anxiety, grand mal seizures, and hallucinations are all symptoms of this.
What is withdrawal?
400
When an unconditioned stimulus elicits an unconditioned response, it is called a _________.
What is reflex?
400
These types of neurons transmit messages from sensory receptors to the brain/spinal cord.
What are sensory/afferent neurons?
400
In this style of parenting, parents make few demands of their children. Often the children get their own way and end up becoming impulsive, self-centered and bossy.
What is permissive?
400
When you feel good about something that just happened you are more likely to perform a task for someone that you regularly wouldn't do.
What is the feel good, do good phenomenon?
400
You get in a fight with your roommate, but you punch a wall. Freud would say you are using this defense mechanism.
What is displacement?
500
Slot machines at casinos are an example of a ________ ________ reinforcement schedule.
What is variable ratio?
500
This area of your brain contains your sensory strip and is responsible for your 3D spatial ability, body image, and math.
What is the parietal lobe?
500
A lesion to the ventromedial hypothalamus will result in __________.
What is eating?
500
These drugs excite neural activity and speed up body functions.
What are stimulants?
500
This man demonstrated the "savings effect"--forgetting is rapid but relearning is shortened.