Chapters 1 & 2
What is Psychology? (Chapter 1 term)
The scientific Study of behavior and mental processes
______ The method by which we acquire information about the outside world via our senses (Chapter 3 term)
Sensation
Losing information when we are presented with new information
Masking
What are the building blocks of thought?
1. Language
2. Images
3. Concepts
The scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the behaviors and characteristics of other people
Social Psychology
Some argue that ______ is more influential for behavior, while others argue that _______ is more influential (Chapter 2 term)
Genetics; Environment
_________: A person’s awareness of and responsiveness to their mental processes and the environment. (Chapter 4 term)
Consciousness
_______ A form of learning in which a response caused by a stimulus becomes caused by a previously neutral stimulus
Classical Conditioning or Pavlovian Conditioning
The study of how and why people change over their lifespan
Developmental Psychology
The way we interpret why others behave the way they do
Attribution Theory
A prediction of what you think will happen before conducting an experiment. (Chapter 1 term)
Hypothesis
________, which is cone-mediated vision, predominates in good lighting and provides high-acuity (finely detailed) color perceptions about the world. (Chapter 3 term)
Photopic vision
Characteristics or expectations of a professor (It is a mental process)
Schema
Situation is judged by it resemblance to a stereotype: _______
Representative Heuristic
is an unfair act or a series of acts directed against an entire group of people or individual members of that group.
Discrimination
______ The difference in electrical charge between
the inside and the outside of a cell. (Chapter 2 term)
Membrane Potential
________: Includes things such as concentrating, making decisions, planning, solving problems, and remembering (Chapter 4 term)
Waking consciousness
Water in face; Flinching; Every 3rd number when counting
Using the descriptions above, what is the unconditioned stimulus, what is the unconditioned response, what is the neutral stimulus, what is the conditioned stimulus and what is the conditioned. response.
water in face (UCS) ----> flinching (UCR)
Every 3rd number when counting (NS) + UCS
Every 3rd number when counting (CS) ---> Flinching (CR)
Babies begin to interact with their environment and see what types of results come from interacting with certain objects. (A stage of development)
Sensorimotor stage
We like things that we have more exposure to (a type of effect)
Exposure effect
Combination of Chapter 1 & 2
1. The field of psychology advances only when.... (Chapter 1 term)
2. If the sum of depolarizations (EPSP’s) and hyperpolarizatons (IPSPs) that occur in the axon initial segment is enough to ____________________________________, an action potential is generated (Chapter 2)
1. new evidence is added to support or challenge existing theories. (Chapter 1)
2. depolarize the membrane to a level known as the threshold of excitation, which is usually around -55mV. (Chapter 2)
Combination of Chapter 3 & 4
1. In dim illumination, there is not enough light to reliably stimulate the cones, and the more sensitive ________ (Chapter 3 term)
2. We reprocess information gathered during the day as a way of strengthening memory and processing emotional information (Chapter 4 term)
1. Scotopic vision
2. Information processing
Combination of Chapter 5 & 6
1. A mother notices her child acting up in the store. To get them to stop she tugs on the child's ear. This is an example of ____ (Chapter 5 term)
2. A student is able to remember everything that happened the day they went to see the first Avengers movie. (A type of memory) (Chapter 6 term)
1. Positive Punishment
2. Episodic Memory
Combination of Chapter 7 & 9
1. The perspective from which information is presented, which can affect decision-making. (Chapter 7 term)
2. An awareness that objects continue to exist even when out of sight. (Chapter 9 term)
1. Framing
2. Object permanence
Attributing other people's actions to their personal characteristics while our own actions to external factors
Fundamental attribution error or Actor-observer bias