PSYC Basics and Methods
The focus of this school of psychology is how mental activities help an organism adapt to its environment.
What is functionalism?
The function of a dendrite is to ___ incoming signals from other neurons.
What is receive?
The process of repeating a phone number mentally so you don’t forget it is called ___.
What is rehearsal?
This term refers to the influence of the environment and culture on development.
What is nurture?
Alternating periods of depression and mania characterize this disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
This early movement in psychology argued that sensation and perception work together to create something greater than just their individual pieces.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
This substance is associated with low levels in Parkinson’s Disease.
What is dopamine?
The memory type involving general knowledge, language, and concepts.
What is semantic memory?
When group members fail to challenge each other and reach a unanimous agreement, this phenomenon may occur.
What is groupthink?
Intruding thoughts that occur repeatedly are called ______. Repetitive ritualistic behaviors done to reduce anxiety are called ______.
What are obsessions and compulsions?
This type of study looks at two variables to determine if they move together.
What is a correlational study?
This neuro-imaging method uses magnetic properties of atoms to take three-dimensional images of the brain.
What is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)?
After brain injury, difficulty remembering new events often indicates damage to this memory system (as in patient HM).
What is long term memory?
The Robber’s Cave study showed that prejudice can be reduced by doing this.
What is cooperating to meet a mutually beneficial goal?
When severe depression does not respond to other treatments, this electro-induced seizure therapy may be used.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
In this sampling method, each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected.
What is a random sample?
The structure that connects the left and right hemispheres. If it’s cut, info transfer between hemispheres is inhibited.
What is the corpus callosum?
Mistakenly remembering someone passed a stop sign when in fact it was a yield sign is an example of ___.
What is false memory?
The tendency to overestimate personal traits and underestimate situational influences when explaining others’ behavior is called ___.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
Therapy that works to change problematic behaviors and irrational thoughts by teaching new, more adaptive behaviors and beliefs is called ___.
What is cognitive-behavior therapy?
In an experiment, this is the variable manipulated by researchers.
What is the independent variable?
The part of the nervous system responsible for “rest and digest” responses.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Successfully training a dog by rewarding successive approximations toward a target behavior is called ___.
What is shaping?
A subtle form of discrimination, often experienced rather than overt, is known as ___.
What are microaggressions?
A long-standing criticism of the older diagnostic manual (DSM-II) focused on this major problem.
What is poor reliability?