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This is the measure of central tendency that explains the average of a set of scores.
Median
When this part of the nervous system is active, digestion decreases.
Sympathetic
This is the type of intelligence that involves remembering facts.
Crystallized
This is the type of parenting style that is extremely controlling and can lead children to be insecure and sensitive to making mistakes.
Authoritarian
This is an example of belief perseverance.
Getting information that something is inaccurate or wrong but continuing to cling to old beliefs regardless.
In an experiment trying to determine whether candy makes people perform better on a test, identify the independent and the dependent variables.
Independent: Candy
Dependent: Test Scores
When this part of the nervous system is active, breathing slows, heart-rate slows, and pupils constrict.
Parasympathetic
This is the type of interference that obstructs memories because old information that had been learned gets in the way of new information.
Proactive Interference
This is the type of parenting style that leads to the most confident and capable children (in western cultures).
Authoritative
This is the tendency people have to consider the actions of others as a feature of those people's overall personality and character (but be more likely to consider environmental circumstances when evaluating their own behavior).
The fundamental attribution error
What is something that must occur for a survey's results to be generalizable?
Random sampling
This is the drug classification for alcholol
Depressant
This is the name for the measurement of the lowest possible amount of a stimulus to be recognized at least 50% of the time.
Absolute threshold
In Pavlov's experiment, the conditioned stimulus was ________.
The tone
These are two examples of projective personality test
Rorschach Inkblot, Thematic Apperception Test, Word Association
This is what standard deviation is.
This is the only sense that is not processed through the thalamus (and also where its receptors are located):
Olfaction (smell)
Nasal cavity (nose)
This is the type of thinking fallacy that states that a baseball hitter is "due" since he has had a terrible last few at bats.
Gambler's fallacy
This is the type of intelligence that wanes as people advance in age (and is related to learning new technology and abstract thinking and problem-solving).
Fluid intelligence
This is the type of motivation theory that considers motivation as products of needing to achieve homeostasis
and this is the type of motivation that comes from needing excitement or change.
Drive-reduction, Arousal
This is the type of skew that happens when the mean of a set of scores is higher than the median score.
Positive skew
This is the region of the brain that contains the areas that process emotion, motivation, and also some aspects of memory.
These are the elements of standardization for standardized tests
Validity
Reliability
Consistent procedures, norms, and instructions
Consistent scoring methods
Not studying? Negative punishment (removing freedom to keep you from avoiding ever again).
These are the five traits that are part of the more biological, trait-theory of personality
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism