Intro & Methods
Brain & Biology
Sensation & Perception
States of Consciousness
Learning
100
The approach in psychology that focuses only on observable behavior.
What is behaviorism?
100
The process of removing unused connections in the brain to improve transmission of messages.
What is synaptic pruning?
100
_________ involves detecting physical energy from the environment and converting it to neural signals; whereas _________ involves selecting, organizing, and interpreting this information.
What is sensation; perception?
100
Difficulty sleeping that is often due to anxiety or environmental changes.
What is insomnia?
100
A child learns that whenever he eats all of his dinner he gets a cookie for dessert. Here, the cookie is ___________________. Another child learns that whenever she eats all of her dinner, she doesn’t have to help do the dishes. This is an example of __________.
What is positive reinforcement; negative reinforcement?
200
Some people say that IQ tests are not really an appropriate measure for overall intelligence, and are actually measuring something else. This means that they are questioning the ________ of the test.
What is validity?
200
The type of imaging technique that measures blood and oxygen flow to detect activity of neurons in particular places in the brain.
What is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)?
200
The _____________ found on the retina are responsible for vision in low light conditions whereas the ______________ are responsible for vision in bright light conditions and seeing color.
What are rods; cones?
200
Blocking people from experiencing ______ leads to impaired memory.
What is REM sleep?
200
In a conditioning experiment, a sound is paired with a brief puff of air to the eye of the rabbit. After several pairings, the rabbit ultimately blinks its eye when it hears the sound. ________ serves as the conditioned stimulus, while the _______ served as the unconditioned stimulus.
What is the sound; the puff of air?
300
___________ proposed that complex mental processes could be broken down into their most elementary parts, and thus founded _________ .
Who is Wilhelm Wundt; what is structuralism?
300
Tom is working on the math portion of the SATs, and is trying to mentally rotate shapes. This is the part of his cerebral cortex that is the most active in this activity.
What is the parietal lobe?
300
The process of detecting physical energy from the environment and converting it into neural signals.
What is transduction?
300
This cycle impacts bodily processes such as body temperature, blood pressure and metabolism.
What is Circadian rhythm?
300
David used to play a lot of video games. His girlfriend didn’t like this, and named it as one of the reasons when she decides to break up with him. Because of this, David has learned that playing video games all the time might be a bad idea. What best explains why he stopped playing video games as much?
What is operant conditioning?
400
A researcher wants to measure love between romantic couples. She decides to measure love by keeping track of how often the couple’s hold hands, kiss, and say “I love you.” These measurement choices are part of the researcher’s ____________ of love.
What is operational definition?
400
_________ are the chemicals that travel through our bloodstream and affect our behavior; while __________ are the chemicals that we secrete to trigger a social response from other people.
What are hormones; pheromones?
400
The four Gestalt laws of organization.
What are proximity, continuity, similarity, closure?
400
The theory of dreams that focuses on their latent content.
What is wish fulfillment?
400
Jim trains Dwight to salivate every time he hears a computer rebooting (the neutral and then conditioned stimulus) by giving him an Altoid (unconditioned stimulus). Then Jim no longer gives Dwight Altoids when he reboots. Dwight eventually stops salivating. This effect is known as ____________. Then Dwight doesn’t hear the reboot for a couple weeks. When he hears it again, he salivates again. This effect is known as ___________.
What is extinction; spontaneous recovery?
500
Kate wants to study whether the amount of time spent watching you-tube videos of puppies influences how well PSYC 101 students perform on their mid-terms. State the independent and dependent variables.
IV: Time spent watching You-tube videos of puppies DV: Performance on midterms
500
Sally is able to understand what others are saying to her, but has difficulty producing speech. This part of her brain is likely to be damaged.
What is Broca's area?
500
When we construct perceptions drawing on our experiences, expectations, and beliefs.
What is top-down processing?
500
The first stage of sleep, which is very light, is referred to as ______________.
Hypnogogic sleep
500
Kevin has a crush on Winnie, and starts texting her frequently. Winnie only texts Kevin when it is in response to a text, but she doesn’t respond to all of the texts, only some. Kevin is on this type of reinforcement schedule.
What is variable ratio?
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