The person responsible for establishing psychology as an independent discipline with its own subject matter
Who is Wundt?
100
This behavioral term might be used when you repeatedly take aspirin because each time you take it the aspirin it makes your headache go away.
What is negative reinforcement?
100
This term describes arranging/rearranging items into shorter, more manageable groups.
What is chunking?
100
This is the band of nerve fibers that connects the two cerebral hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
100
This is the term for how people think:
What is cognition?
200
In an attempt to learn something about his conscious experience, William looked at an abstract painting and wrote down all of his impressions as they came to him. This technique is called
What is introspection?
200
He's known as the father of Classical Conditioning.
Who is Pavlov?
200
This is Freud's term for the process that is at work when distressing thoughts and feelings remain buried in the unconscious.
What is repression?
200
Sensory information from the eyes is relayed to the visual cortex through this part of the brain.
What is the thalamus?
200
If you got a 100 on a Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) then your IQ would be called this term:
What is Average?
300
The provides a summary of the entire article:
What is an abstract?
300
A behavioral modification program in which you systematically reward yourself for studying
What is Operant Conditioning?
300
This type of learning is exemplified when a child washes his bike after he observes his father washing the family car.
What is observational learning?
300
This is the brain center for emotions such as fear, anger, and happiness:
What is the amygdala?
300
If you give a false but plausible excuse to justify your unacceptable behavior, Freud would say that you used this particular defense mechanism:
What is rationalization?
400
Sometimes a subject’s expectations may lead to behavior change in the absence of any effective treatment. This is
What is the placebo effect?
400
To pass through to the next stage of one of Erikson's stages of development, you must first resolve this potential turning point.
What is a crisis?
400
While at a party you repeat names over and over to yourself in order to remember them. This process has a particular name.
What is rehearsal?
400
If this is destroyed you'll have a lot of issues with memory:
What is the hippocampus?
400
When the causes of a person’s behavior are attributed to personal dispositions, traits, abilities, and feelings a psychologist might say that those causes are called this:
What are internal attributes?
500
This can include IQ, age, weight, and income.
What are variables?
500
This is an internal state of tension that precedes behavior designed to reduce that tension.
What is drive?
500
This helps you remember the names of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) by recalling the word “HOMES” as a cue.
What is a mnemonic device?
500
Persons having difficulty with language and speech following an accident that resulted in injury to the brain are MOST likely to have sustained damage to this area:
What is the left cerebral hemisphere?
500
Yielding to real or imagined social pressure is the definition of this: