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What is permitted during an interrogation and what isn't?
What is: (any of the following) torture, beating, brainwashing, drugging, threats, insults, or promising of bail or non-prosecution.
What is another word for hypothesis?
What is: Prediction
Which part of the brain controls your balance and coordination?
What is: The Cerebellum
This is the first process of placing information in the memory
What is the largest part of the brain?
What is: The Cerebral Cortex
A weak positive correlation would be denoted by...
What is: .2
How many variables should be tested at one time in a scientific investigation?
What is: One Variable
What is the main function of the endocrine system?
What is: it creates chemicals that are sent around the body to maintain homeostasis
What is classical conditioning?
What is: Learning caused by pairing and association of two stimuli
The first psychological laboratory was established by…
Who is: Wilhelm Wundt
True or false: Sometimes you have to design an investigation without doing a controlled experiment
What is: True
Cognitive Psychology can best be described as acquired knowledge and understanding through...
What is: Thought, Experience, and Senses
What is a neurotransmitter?
What is: A Chemical messenger
The stage of the sleep cycle during which one experiences night terrors
What is: Stage 3
When Richard gets a rejection letter from Harvard, his spirits begin to sway and his academic performance begins to fall. His parents get an email from 3 of his teachers saying he is now failing, and he's missed the last application deadline for another college on his wish list. His parents take his new Xbox and sell it. This punishment is an example of...
What is: Negative punishment
What are the three main concepts for the Reid Interrogation technique?
What is: Isolation, Maximization and Minimization.
In an experiment, we are manipulating the...
What is: The Independent Variable
The difference between glutamate and GABA is that
What is: glutamate excites the neurons in the brain and GABA has an inhibitory effect.
Behavior: Joy smiles at everyone
Consequence: She makes a lot of friends
What is: Positive reinforcement
Ashley sells only half of her quota for November, so her boss takes away the radio she keeps at her desk. Her pattern of under-performing at work ends as a result. This is an example of...
What is: Negative Punishment
The primary difference in a clinical psychologist and psychiatrist is...
What is: Psychiatrists are medical doctors
The gold standard in scientific research is...
Prozac works to combat depression by keeping this neurotransmitter in the synapse longer
What is: Serotonin
Tamara normally feeds her cat canned cat food. She noticed that every time she uses her electric can opener, her cat comes to the kitchen. What is the conditioned stimulus?
What is: The sound of the electric can opener
Joe believes that human behavior is generated in our unconscious minds and is the result of unresolved conflicts and desires, especially rooted in childhood experience. To which psychological perspective is Joe most likely to prescribe?
What is: Psychodynamic