Unit 1
A correlation whereas one variable increases, the other also increases
What is a positive correlation?
Correlational research is most useful for purposes of
What is prediction?
/-\ is an example of...
What is bottom-up processing?
When a parent whoops a child for doing delinquent behavior the parents are performing
What is punishment?
The three steps in memory information processing are
What is Encoding, storage, retrieval?
A correlation that increases in the value of one variable that’s associated with decreases in the other variable is called
What is a negative correlation?
To examine assumptions, hidden values, evaluate evidence, and assess conclusions is called
What is critical thinking?
sweet, sour, bitter, umami, and ____ are the five types of tastes
What is salty?
Unconditioned Stimulus produces a(n)...
What is the process of retaining encoded information over time?
What is storage?
A person who studies an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
What is a personality psychologist?
The part of the neuron receives messages from other cells
What is an axon?
This is the region of the retina that creates an area with no vision
*Hint* When you aren’t able to see a car in your rearview mirror its in your__
What is blindspot?
Kylie is interested in helping her son learn manners. Each time her son says something that is close to appropriate, she rewards him. Eventually, her son should learn good manners. What term is explained by this process?
What is shaping?
One way to increase the amount of information in memory is to group it into larger, familiar units. The process is referred to as
What is chunking?
A person who studies influences on teaching and learning
What is an education psychologists?
The process of replication is most likely to be facilitated by
What is operational defintions?
Which of the following is not apart of the eye?
Stapes, pupil, lens, retina, and iris
What is stapes?
The AP Psychology examination given by the College Board in May exemplifies which of the following types of tests?
What is achievement?
An unexplained phenomenon wherein drugs, treatments, and therapies that aren’t supposed to have an effect
What is the placebo effect?
Which technique of studying the brain involves injecting the patient with glucose?
What is PET?
The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts is?
What is Kinesthesis?
Unintended reinforcement of unimportant behavior produces...
What is superstition behavior?
The three stages of the Atkinson-Shiffrin process of memory are
What is sensory, short-term, long-term?