The Science of Psychology
Known as the father of psychology
Who is Willhelm Wundt?
The biologically determined and innate patterns of behaviors that exist in people and animals is called an?
What is an instinct?
What occurs when there is a shift in the quality or pattern of mental activity?
What are altered states of consciousness?
What is storage?
The tendency for people to persist in using problem-solving patterns that have worked for them in the past is called _________________?
What is a mental set?
What are the seven modern perspectives of psychology?
What are the Psychodynamic Perspective, Behavioral Perspective, Humanistic Perspective, Cognitive Perspective, Sociocultural Perspective, Biopsychological Perspective, Evolutionary Perspective?
What is the last need on Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
What is self-actualization?
How much sleep do young adults need?
What are 7-9 hours of sleep?
According to Miller, what is the capacity of short-term memory?
"What is seven plus or minus two?
A kind of creativity in which a person starts from one point and comes up with many different ideas or possibilities based on that point?
What is divergent thinking?
In an experiment, the outcome variable that is measured is called the _____________ and the attribute that is manipulated by the experiementer is called the ______________.
What is a dependent variable and an independent variable?
___________ is the hormone that signals the hypothalamus that the body has had enough food?
What is leptin?
Nausea, pain, tremors, crankiness, and high blood pressure are all examples of ________ ___________?
What are withdrawal symptoms?
Motor skills, habits, classically conditioned reflexes are examples of what type of long-term memory?
What is nondeclarative (implicit) memory.
IQ is normally distributed around a mean of ___________; an IQ score of ________ on the normal curve may be associated with an intellectual disability, and individuals with an IQ of ______ or above are usually considered gifted.
What are 100, 70, and 130?
What are the goals of psychology?
What is to describe, explain, predict, and control behavior?
Which theory of emotion would agree with this statement, "Dog is barking at me, my heart rate increases, I feel fear".
"What is the James-Lange Theory of Emotion?"
Mark experiences breathing difficulties when he sleeps. What sleep disorder may mark be experiencing?
What is sleep apnea?
Knowing Lima is the Capital of Peru would be an example of what type of declarative memory?
What is semantic memory?
Charles spearman saw intelligence as?
What are two different abilities? What is g factor/ What is s factor?
__________ study designs are where a researcher defines a problem and variable of interest but makes no prediction and does not manipulate anything whereas _________ is where neither the participant nor the scientist administering the treatment know who has been assigned to which group/condition and _______ are where observations are made of the same people over time, ranging from months to decades.
What are descriptive designs, double-blind studies, and longitudinal studies?
What coritical areas are involved in various aspects of emotion?
An internal clock that tells people when to wake up and when to fall asleep?
What is the Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)?
Ana, Mia, Andrew, and Aaron have all been scheduled for a job interview at an advertising agency. If they are called in this particular order, who will make a more memorable impression during their job interview?
Whos is Ana and Aaron?
__________ are the smallest units of meaning within a language, ___________ is the system of rules governing the structure and use of a language, __________ are the rules for determining the meaning of words and sentences, ________ are the basic units of sound in a language, and ___________ are aspects of language involving the practical ways of communicating with others, or the social niceties of language.
What are morphemes, grammar, semantics, phonemes, and pragmatics?