What is free will?
The belief that behavior is caused by a person's independent decisions
What are the main parts of a neuron, other than the cell body?
What are axon and dendrites?
What is likely to occur when we misjudge the distance to some objects?
What is optical illusion?
A Piaget’s terms means applying an old schema to a new object or problem
What is assimilation?
If you try to describe your high school graduation, you are engaged in which type of memory test?
What is free recall?
Which psychologists are most likely to deal with emotional difficulties?
What is clinical psychologists?
What happens to the strength of an action potential as it travels?
It remains the same
What is the term for the amplitude of a sound?
What is loudness?
A psychologist poses some questions to 12-year-olds, and compares their responses to the same questions at age 18. This study follows which design?
What is longitudinal?
What term refers to an extension of a conditioned response from the training stimulus to similar stimuli?
What is stimulus generalization?
What is the difference between determinism and free will?
Determinism believes that everything has a cause, but free will believes that scientific research could never explain human behavior
What does a neurotransmitter do?
It either excites or inhibits a neuron
Which theory explains negative color afterimages?
What is the Opponent-process theory?
An infant responds less and less to a repeated sound, but increases its response to a slightly changed sound. What term applies to this increase of response?
What is dishabituation?
Two people nearby discuss national parks, but you pay no attention to them. Nevertheless, you soon start talking about national parks yourself. What kind of memory are you displaying?
What is implicit memory?
Which research method generally uses the fewest participants?
What is case study?
Which of the brain area helps the brain's two hemispheres communicate with each other?
What is corpus callosum?
Compared to the fovea, the periphery of the retina is more sensitive to what?
What is faint light?
An infant who mostly ignores the mother in the Strange Situation shows which attachment style?
What is avoidant?
First you memorized the capitals of all the African countries. If you now memorize the capitals of all the Asian countries, why might you forget some of the African capitals?
What is retroactive interference?
If Youlim wants to design an experiment to examine the association between college GPA and class attendance, then what would the hypothesis be?
Students who attend more classes will have higher college GPA than those who attend few classes
How does cocaine alter the activity of neuron?
It prolongs the presence of dopamine in synapses
What is a phantom limb?
A sensation as if an amputated limb were still present
According to a popular generalization, which term describes Chinese culture?
What is collectivist?
What are the differences between classical conditioning and operant conditioning?
Classical conditioning shapes behaviors we cannot choose to do but operant conditioning shapes behaviors we do have physical control over.
Also, classical conditioning applies mainly to visceral responses whereas operant conditioning applies mainly to skeletal responses.