BioPsychology
Critical Thinking
Learning
Perception
Personality
100
Natural, opiatelike neurotransmitters linked to pain control.
What are endorphins?
100
The difference between the largest and smallest numbers in a distribution.
What is the range?
100
Something that increases a behavior.
What is a reinforcement?
100
Organizing stimuli into a complete pattern.
What is gestalt?
100
Father of the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
200
The part of the nervous system that consists of the sensory and motor neurons.
What is peripheral nervous system?
200
The number that falls in the middle of a number of values in a distribution.
What is median?
200
Something that decreases a behavior.
What is a punishment?
200
The central focus point of the retina.
What is the fovea?
200
Emphasized not just the unconscious, but the collective unconscious.
Who is Carl Jung?
300
Where the visual cortex is located.
What is the occipital lobe?
300
The sum of all the values divided by the number of values.
What is the mean?
300
Something that causes a natural response.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
300
Recognizing objects as having a consistent form regardless of changing viewing angles.
What is perceptual constancy.
300
Still thinking you have a chance of winning this game when you have no points.
What is denial?
400
Part of the brain most associated with planning and judgment.
What are the frontal lobes?
400
One way to evaluate whether or new or weird idea might be true.
What is the baloney detection kit?
400
The process of rewarding a series of behaviors.
What is operant conditioning?
400
The tendency of the mind to complete a figure even if elements are missing.
What is closure?
400
Believing that circumstances and luck control your destiny.
What is external locus of control?
500
The structure that connects the two halves of the brain.
What is the corpus collosum?
500
Being able to predict one value when you know another.
What is correlation?
500
Behavior increases when something is removed or taken away.
What is negative reinforcement?
500
The ability to see into the future.
What is clairvoyance?
500
The current theory of personality that emphases traits.
What is the Big Five?
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