Cognitive Psychology
Human and Animal Learning
Psychological Testing and Assessment
Behavioral Neuroscience
Theories of Personality
100
In this experimental task people are presented with information on both ears at once.
What is dichotic listening?
100
People drive the speed limit in order to avoid getting a ticket. This is an example of this type of reinforcement.
What is negative reinforcement?
100
Listed author of the WAIS-III published in 1997.
Who is David Wechsler?
100
This type of learning involves changes in connections between different regions of the sensory association cortex.
What is relational learning?
100
The first stage in Erickson’s psychosocial stages of development.
What is basic trust versus mistrust?
200
A basic part of an object.
What is a geon?
200
The theory of avoidance in which the subject’s behavior will change only after they detect a discrepancy between what they expect will happen and what actually happens.
What is the Cognitive Theory of Avoidance?
200
Personality Inventory that contains a "Lie" scale?
What is the MMPI?
200
In this type of conditioning an organism shows a species-typical behavior in response to a previously unimportant stimulus.
What is classical conditioning?
200
This philosophical movement emphasizes the importance of a person’s “here and now” experience, and serves as a foundation for humanism.
What is Existentialism?
300
Two types of attention.
What is automatic and voluntary?
300
The device used to modify self-injurious behavior by administering mild shocks to the person engaging in self-injurious behavior.
What is is SIBIS (Self-Injurious Behavior Inhibiting System)?
300
The multidisciplinary approach to assessment that includes exploration of relevant biological, psychological, and social, cultural, and environmental variables for the purpose of evaluating how such variables may have contributed to the development and maintenance of a presenting problem.
What is the biopsychosocial assessment?
300
Patients with this type of amnesia can show certain forms of learning, but do not recall the learning experience.
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
Social learning theorist who demonstrated observational learning in his famous Bobo doll studies.
Who is Bandura?
400
Sperling's technique which revealed the existence of the sensory store.
What is partial report?
400
An animal is likely to make many responses on a schedule when there are no acceptable substitutes available. This is a concept taken from economics that states that changes in price of a product have little effect on the demand for the product when there are no other options.
What is inelastic demand?
400
During the course of a mental status examination, the examiner asks the examinee: “Do you know why we are here and why I am interviewing you today?” By raising these questions, the examiner is MOST likely trying to assess the examinee’s _________.
What is insight?
400
Sleep stages 3 and 4 are also called this.
What is slow-wave sleep?
400
In cross-cultural psychology, this is the tendency to judge another culture based on one’s own cultural background.
What is Ethnocentrism?
500
This technique allows us to remember more items.
What is chuncking?
500
The idea put forth by Tolman and Honzik that reinforcement is NOT necessary for the learning of a new response, but IS necessary for the performance of a new response.
What is latent learning?
500
A pathological alteration of brain tissue.
What is a lesion?
500
This is where object recognition analysis occurs in the brain.
What is the visual ventral stream?
500
According to Freud, the superego begins to develop during this stage of psychosexual development.
What is the phallic stage?
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