Cognitive I
The element of the working memory that contains images.
What is the visuospatial sketch pad?
The IQ range that 95% of all people belong to.
What is 70-130?
People's description of their own characteristics.
What is a self-concept?
The hormone primarily implicated in aggression.
What is testosterone?
The mental health disorder known previously as shell shock or battle fatigue.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
An unconscious memory that is difficult to verbalize, such as a memory for classical conditioning.
What is nondeclarative/implicit memory?
A specific member of a category used to represent the category.
What is an exemplar?
The person responsible for the creation of psychodynamic theory.
Who is Ernst von Brücke?
A persuasive technique in which compliance with a target request is preceded by a large, unreasonable request.
What is the door-in0the0face technique?
A false, illogical belief.
What is a delusion?
The process in which communication between neurons is enhanced through simultaneous firing.
What is long-term potentiation?
The ability to think logically without the need for previously learned knowledge.
What is fluid intelligence?
A cognitive expectancy about the source of individual outcomes; it can be internal or external.
What is a locus of control?
The three major elements of attitudes; the ABCs of attitudes.
What are affect, behaviour, and cognition?
A mental health disorder seen as a precursor to antisocial personality disorder.
What is conduct disorder?
The reason why you should show up to your exam drunk if you are studying drunk.
What is state-dependent memory?
A recipe is an example of this precise, step-by-step set of rules.
What is an algorithm?
The psychological construct measured by the NEO-PI-R Inventory.
What are the Big Five personality traits?
A famous experiment into conformity involving matching equally-sized lines.
What is the Asch experiment?
Repetitive, ritualistic behaviour associated with high anxiety.
What are compulsions?
The brain structure associated with procedural memories.
What is the basal ganglia?
The language that has two words for blue and was famously involved in demonstrating how language influences thought.
What is Russian?
This controversial projective test is still used widely, but its reliability and validity are in question.
What is the Rorschach test?
A classic model of competition and cooperation involving participants choosing to confess or remain silent.
What is the prisoner's dilemma?
A mental health disorder correlated with overly large ventricles and massive losses of grey matter in teenage years.
What is schizophrenia?