Brain
What brain region is associated with fear?
Amygdala
How long is short-term memory?
~15-30 seconds
What is classical conditioning?
Associating two stimuli
What animal was used in Martin Seligman's experiment with learned helplessness?
Dog
You are convinced you remember an event exactly as it happened, but your memory contains details that never actually occurred. What does this demonstrate?
False memory
Which structure coordinates motor movement?
Cerebellum
What is the difference between explicit vs implicit?
Explicit = conscious
Implicit = unconscious
What is the term for learning by watching other people?
Observational learning
What psychologist trained dogs to associate a bell with food?
Ivan Pavlov
What is it called when you fail to notice an obvious visual stimulus because your attention is focused somewhere else?
Inattentional blindness
What is the hippocampus important for?
Forming new memories
Encoding, storage, and retrieval
What is negative reinforcement?
Doing a behavior to remove an aversive stimulus
Which experiment was B.F. Skinner known for?
Skinner box
What bias causes people to favor information that supports what they already believe?
Confirmation bias
What are the names of the four lobes?
Frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobe
What type of amnesia involves difficulty forming new long-term memories?
Anterograde amnesia
What is it called when you change your behavior to match the behavior or expectations of a group?
Conformity
What is Elizabeth Loftus famous for?
Car crash / false memory experiments
What phenomenon occurs when people overestimate how much other people notice their appearance or behavior?
Spotlight effect
What are the three divisions in the brain?
Forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain
What is the term for forgetting information because new learning interferes with previously learned information?
Retroactive interference
What is the phenomenon when naming the font color of a word takes longer and requires more effort if the word and its color do not match?
Stroop effect
What experiment used a fake prison to study social roles and behavior, but was heavily criticized for its methodology?
Stanford Prison Experiment
What optical illusion makes two identical lines appear to be different lengths because of the arrows at their ends?
The Müller-Lyer illusion