Cognitive Psychology 💭
This type of memory temporarily holds information you are actively using.
Working memory
Changing your behavior because of real or imagined group pressure.
Conformity
The variable that a researcher intentionally changes.
Independent variable
Which lobe is primarily associated with vision?
Occipital lobe
What is UArizona's mascot?
Wilbur and Wilma
The tendency to remember information that confirms what you already believe.
Confirmation bias
When people put in less effort because they're working in a group.
Social loafing
The variable that researchers measure as the outcome
Dependent variable
Which part of the brain is particularly important for planning and decision-making?
Prefrontal cortex
What is the UArizona's student union?
The Daily Wildcat
Remembering an event differently because of misleading information encountered afterward.
Misinformation effect
The famous experiemnt investigating obedience to authority using supposed electrical shocks.
Milgram's obedience experiment
A correlation of +1.00 represents what?
Perfect positive correlation
Which lobe is associated with touch and spatial processing?
Parietal lobe
What year was the University of Arizona founded?
1885
Studying information across multiple sessions instead of cramming is known as this.
Spacing effect
Overestimating personality factors and underestimating situational factors when explaining someone else's behavior.
Fundamental attribution error
This type of validity asks whether results can generalize to other people and settings.
External validity
Which brain structure helps regulate balance and coordination?
Cerebellum
These famous two-word dying words were spoken by 1926 student body president John "Button" Salmon to football coach J.F. McKale.
"Bear Down"
This bias causes people to rely too heavily on the first information they encounter.
Anchoring bias
The tendency for the presence of other to improve performance on easy tasks but potentially impair performance on difficult tasks.
Social facilitation
True or False: A statistically significant correlation proves causation.
FALSE!
Which brain structure is strongly associated with fear processing?
Amygdala
Before adopting the familiar Cardinal and Navy Blue, the University of Arizona’s original official school colors selected in 1899 were these two.
Sage green and silver