The term “conditioning,” as used by Ivan Pavlov, is another term for what?
What is Learning?
100
Who conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment?
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
100
What part of a Neuron is long, thick and covered in Myelin?
What is Axon?
100
What is any event that can potentially influence behavior?
What is Stimulus?
100
Thoughts and emotions which are different, extreme, unusual, perhaps even bizarre behaviors that are marked different from a society’s ideas about proper functioning?
What is Deviant?
200
What is a harmless substance that has no physiological effect?
What is Placebo?
200
What is the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request and comply with a larger request later?
What is Foot- in- the- door phenomenon?
200
What is the retention and use of prior learning?
What is Memory?
200
What is the predictive relationship between two events, such that the occurrence of one event predicts the probable occurrence of another?
What is Contingency?
200
Who taught that illness had natural causes, and who saw abnormal behavior as a disease arising from internal physical problems-He is often called the father of modern medicine?
Who is Hippocrates?
300
What is the study of culture’s role in understanding behavior, thought, and emotion?
What is Cross- Cultural Psychology?
300
Studied by Fritz Heider, the theory that explains someone’s behavior by crediting either the situation or the person’s disposition- is what theory?
What is Attribution theory?
300
What is a term used by Tolman to describe a situation in which learning is distinct from the performance of a behavior?
What is Latent Learning?
300
What is the deliberate manipulation of environmental events to alter their impact on our behavior?
What is Counter- Control?
300
What means study of the mind?
What is Psychometrics?
400
Psychology began as a blend of what two disciplines?
What is Philosophy and Physiology?
400
What is a situation called in which the conflicting parties, by each rationally pursing their self- interest, become caught in mutually destructive behavior?
What is a Social Trap?
400
What is a memory aid, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices?
What are Mnemonics?
400
In the operant- conditioning procedure of shaping, what are the behaviors that are ordered in terms of increasing similarity or closeness to desired responses?
What is Successive Approximations?
400
What was an ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skill, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior?
What is Trephination?
500
What is a cognitive stress reaction where a person is persistently drawn back to thinking about a stressor?
What is Ruminating?
500
What is it called when people have the expectation that people will help, not hurt, those who have helped them?
What is Reciprocity Norm?
500
What is the failure to retrieve information from long term memory due to the absence of state dependent cues such as mood or emotion?
What is State Dependent Forgetting?
500
What states that behaviors leading to a satisfying state of affairs are strengthened or stamped in while behaviors leading to an unsatisfied state are weakened or stamped out?
What is Thorndike’s Law of Effect?
500
Who was director at La Bicetre during the French Revolution in 1793; he was psychiatrist who demanded humane treatment of mentally ill?