Mental representations of categories of items or ideas, based on experience. These are building blocks of thinking because they enable us to organize our knowledge.
What is a concept?
100
This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
100
This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"
What is the cerebellum
100
When a person's behavior is determined by repressed unconscious conflicts
What is psychoanalytic theory?
100
The spread of a characteristic throughout a population.
What is a Normal Distribution/Bell-Shaped Curve?
200
An ideal model used as a good example for a good concept.
What is a prototype?
200
This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority
cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
200
The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.
What is amnesia
200
People explain others' behavior as being caused by internal dispositions or external situations
What is Attribution theory?
200
This professor attended the same college at the same time as President Crutcher and once awakened to find 1960s film star Troy Donahue standing at the foot of his/her bed
Who is Professor Price?
300
A problem-solving strategy or formula.
What is an algorithm?
300
A research finding that appears to be universally true across cultures, as opposed to a finding that is only valid within a given culture.
What is an etic?
300
This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.
What is the limbic system?
300
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
What is Humanistic Theory
300
This professor made the final table at a tournament at the World Poker Finals last month
Who is Professor Murphy?
400
An inability to perceive a new use for an object associated with a different purpose.
What is functional fixedness?
400
The tendency of participants to act differently from normal in a research study because they know they are being observed.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
400
Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.
What is a neurotransmitter?
400
Lawrence Kohlberg founded this theory
What is Theory of Moral Development?
400
This professor has written three unpublished novels
Who is Professor Nelson?
500
A cognitive process in which the brain uses information from the senses, emotions, and memory to create and manipulate mental representations.
What is Thinking or Cognition?
500
A type of experimental design where random assignment to groups is not employed for either ethical or practical reasons, but certain methods of control are employed and
the independent variable is manipulated.
What is quasi experimental?
500
This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language (think Tell-Tale Brain!)
What is Broca's aphasia
500
Albert Bandura maintains that learning is facilitated by modeling and observational learning
What is social learning theory?
500
If given the choice of any role on Star Trek, this Professor wants to play Dr. Spock.