Thinking Critically
Biology of Behavior
Lifespan Development
Sensation and Perception
Learning
100
The research method where a single individual is studied in great depth.
What is a case study?
100
This is a part of a neuron that receives incoming signals from other neurons.
What is a dendrite?
100
These type of twins originate from the fertilization of a single egg cell by a single sperm cell.
What are identical twins?
100
This type of threshold is the minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
100
In classical conditioning, a stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning.
What is neutral stimulus.
200
Our tendency to believe we know more than we do
What is overconfidence.
200
Chemical messengers are released into this spatial junction between neurons.
What is a synapse?
200
This is a substance that can cross the placental barrier and harm an unborn child.
What is a teratogen?
200
The experience of having diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus.
What is sensory adaptation?
200
The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus.
What is discrimination?
300
A testable prediction that gives direction to research.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This term refers the the reabsorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by a sending neuron.
What is reuptake?
300
This is triggered by touching a newborn on the cheek.
What is the rooting reflex?
300
Occasionally after a car accident, one of the drivers will say "i didn't see the other car!" This is a result of an area of the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye.
What is the blind spot?
300
In this type of learning, behavior is influenced by its consequences.
What is operant conditioning?
400
A psychological specialist most likely to have a medical degree.
What is a psychiatrist?
400
This part of the peripheral nervous system controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
400
Piaget is credited with identifying this conceptual framework for understanding our experiences.
What is a schema?
400
A jackhammer operator who has experienced prolonged exposure to high-amplitude drilling is losing his hearing. This hearing loss is a result of damage to this part of the ear.
What are hair cells?
400
An animal trainer is teaching a miniature poodle to balance on a ball. Initially he gives the poodle a treat for approaching the ball, then only for placing its front paws on the ball, and finally only for climbing on the ball. The trainer is using this method.
What is successive approximations?
500
The three key attitudes of scientific inquiry.
What is curiosity, skepticism, and humility?
500
This part of the somatic nervous system will cause your heart to race and make you perspire when you find a burglar in your home.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
500
This type of parenting style uses harsh discipline on children and demands unquestioning obedience.
What is an authoritarian parenting style?
500
This phenomenon occurs when an individual who loses a limb experiences pain in the nonexistent limb.
What is phantom limb sensation?
500
A reinforcement schedule where responses are only reinforced after a specified number of responses have been made.
What is a fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement?
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