Exam 1
Psychology is the study of
Behavior and mental processes
How does positive punishment work?
It works by adding an undesirable stimulus to decrease a behavior.
Snapping a rubber band each time someone reaches for their vape, to try to help them to stop.
What is groupthink?
In a study in which the experimental group of college students are given peppermint gum to see whether this treatment will improve their scores in a psychology exam, what is the dependent variable?
Students' scores on the psychology exam
Changes in behavior and cognitive processes overtime are studied by?
Evolutionary psychologist
What does the positive or negative sign of a correlation coefficient indicate?
The direction of the relationship.
Positive: they are both going in the same direction
Negative: they are going in opposite directions
What are the essential components of memory?
encoding, storage, and retrieval
What did the Stanford Prison Experiment test?
The power of social roles influencing behavior.
What are the steps of the scientific method?
observe, hypothesize, test, conclusion, evaluate
Remembering a network of facts and concepts like remembering which day a plane flew into the twin towers in New York City would be an example of:
Semantic memories
What type of data is used in all sciences?
Empirical
What does nature refer to in the nature vs. nurture debate?
genes and biology
A therapist who pays particular attention to transference during therapy is likely to have which approach?
Psychodynamic approach
In which stage of sleep does a person dream?
REM Sleep
The _____is the electric charge that an action potential needs to reach for a neuron to fire.
threshold of excitation
What principle in Gestalt psychology states that objects that occur close to one another tend to be grouped together?
Principle of Proximity
What is operant conditioning?
a learning process where the consequences of a behavior increase or decrease the likelihood of that behavior being repeated
What therapy that takes the systems approach and identifies the symptoms of the unit as a whole?
family therapy
Aria has been awake for two nights in a row and still feels highly energetic, and euphoric. The previous day, she quit her job on an impulse and decided to become an actress. In the context of bipolar disorder, Aria is experiencing an episode of
Mania
Only being able to park your car if the speedometer ends in a three and locking your car three times is an example of what disorder?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
What are the parts of a neuron?
Dendrite
Axon terminal
Soma
myelin sheath
What type of memory is used in remembering how to do task such as ride a bike or brushing your teeth?
Implicit procedural memory
What is the sociocultural approach?
emphasizes how societal and cultural influences shape individual development, thinking, and behavior
Wendy’s mother has blue eyes and her father has brown eyes. The allele for brown eye color is dominant (B) to the allele for blue eye color (b), but Wendy has blue eyes. Therefore, Wendy’s ________ must be ________ and her father’s must be Bb.
genotype, bb
During Piaget's Sensorimotor stage, what is the ability to flexibly alter existing schemas into new schemas called?
Accommodation