Unit 1: Biology
Unit 2: Cognition
Unit 3: Development and Learning
Research Methods
HCSS Miscellaneous
100

This psychological approach would be the most interested in natural selection and inheritance of traits from parents and prior generations.

What is the Evolutionary Approach?

100

Johnny was not paying attention during class on Monday. He was daydreaming about a show that he loves instead. He fails the exam given on Friday. Johnny's exam score can be attributed to failure in this stage of memory. (Either Encoding, Storage, or Retrieval)

What is Encoding?

100

Menopause, Menarche, Language Acquisition and Spermarche are all examples of _________ ________ or times in which certain developmental milestones are expected to happen.

What are Critical Periods?

100

In most research studies involving human participants, this organization must first be consulted for ethical considerations.

What is an IRB?

100

The closest fast food location to HCSS as the Crow Flies is ____________. 

What is Dunkin Donuts? (815 meters)

Dairy King (819 meters)

McDonalds (922 meters)

200

Patients with schizophrenia frequently report experiencing Auditory Hallucinations. In order to examine these hallucinations, a clinical psychologist would likely examine this region of the brain.

What is the Temporal Lobe?

200

HCSS administration will frequently announce the most recent "millionaires" in scholarship earnings, even though students cannot accept scholarships from multiple universities, as they cannot attend multiple universities at once. This presentation demonstrates the effect of _________ on audience interpretation of data.

What is Framing?

200

Administration coming in to observe teachers without giving prior warning of when they will be observed follows this schedule of reinforcement.

What is Variable-Interval?

200

An experiment and quasi-experiment are nearly identical except a quasi-experiment cannot conduct ___________ ___________ with their participants while experiments can.

What is Random Assignment?

200

HCSS Middle School's Zip Code is ______.

What is 01089?

300

This scan measures the amount of electricity produced from each separate region of the brain.

What is an EEG?

300

A tests' ability to determine future outcomes is measured by this term.

What is predictive validity?

300

Mr. MacKinnon wants every student to be engaged in jeopardy. In his most recent Jeopardy game, 20% of students were not engaged with the questions posed. Mr. MacKinnon then decides to run fewer jeopardy games because his students weren't as engaged as he hoped. The students not engaging in the jeopardy game served as ___________ ___________ on Mr. MacKinnon's behavior.

What is Negative Punishment?

300

Daily Double

Decide as a team how many points to wager out of your point total. Correct = Add to Total. Incorrect = Subtract from Total. (<1000 points may wager up to 1000 points)

In Albert Bandura's Bobo Doll Study, the dependent variable measured was this.

300

There are this many history teachers at HCSS High School.

What is 6? (Then, Martel, Deane, Cundiff, Dooley, Fanning)

400

This part of the Neuron allows for the cell to depolarize, switching from negative to positive charge.

What are the Nodes of Ranvier?

400

Daily Double

Decide as a team how many points to wager out of your point total. Correct = Add to Total. Incorrect = Subtract from Total. (<1000 points may wager up to 1000 points)

The Triarchic Theory of Intelligence was developed by this major psychologist.

400

John Garcia developed this adaptation of Classical Conditioning, which posits that from an evolutionary perspective, food can serve as a neutral and conditioned stimulus to be paired with feelings of illness.

What is Taste Aversion?

400

If Data Set A has a standard deviation of .03, and Data Set B has a standard deviation of .99, and both sets were evaluated on the same scale of 1-5, it can be stated that Data Set A has lower ___________.

What is variation / variance?

400

Mr. MacKinnon student taught with this teacher at HCSS.

Who is Ms. Then?

500

Increased use of external substances can form these structures on the neuron, which ultimately are what cause withdrawal symptoms when that substance is no longer used.

What are Dendritic Spines?

500

The inaccurate or false recollection of where you learned a piece of information is called ________ ______.

What is source amnesia?

500

Raw fish, alcohol and herbicides are all examples of __________. Or harmful substances to a gestating fetus.

What are Teratogens?

500

While a correlation coefficient is normally represented by the letter r, Cohen's Coefficient or is used to represent this concept. A large one indicating that the independent variable had a significant impact and a small indicating very little impact.

What is Effect Size?

500

Mr. MacKinnon's masters thesis was focused on this genre of Music during this time in American history. (250 pts. / correct)

What is Funk music during the post-Civil Rights Movement?

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