Exam #1 (Science of Psychology + Biology & Behavior
Dr. Wallace is interested in how students use cell phones in classes. He observes several college classes and records how often students use their phones, which best illustrates this goal of psychology.
What is describe?
Walking into a dark movie theater is possible because these photoreceptors allow us to see in low light conditions.
What are rods?
You get an email from a local charitable organization, asking for volunteers to show up for a clean-up of the local playground. Your showing up to the clean-up is an example of which kind of behavior change?
What is compliance?
Jaxon is not worried about his drinking despite the frequent blackouts. Subsequently, he has missed family gatherings and has arrived late for work. Jaxon missing family gatherings reflects this aspect of abnormal behavior.
What is dysfunction?
This disorder is characterized by unethical behavior, deceitfulness, disregard for others, and lack of remorse.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
These are the small, branchlike fibers extending from a cell body.
What are dendrites?
In Pavlov's classical conditioning experiment, meat (or meat powder, in some cases) elicits an automatic response, without learning taking place. That makes the meat (or meat powder) this in the experiment.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
Betsy conducted a study on development of gender identity across the lifespan. Betsy collected 120 responses from various age groups. She then followed each of those age groups for 10 years. Betsy's is using this type of developmental research method.
What is cross-sequential?
Sabrina has a fear of heights. Her therapist seeks to treats her fear of heights by exposing Sabrina to different heights using a anxiety hierarchy, and having her practice progressive muscle relaxation. Her therapist is using this type of behavioral therapy.
What is systematic desensitization?
Some of Freud’s theoretical insights were inspired by his intensive study of a patient called Anna O, which exemplified this type of research methodology.
What is the case study method?
A soda company conducts an experiment on the effect of caffeine on grade performance. Caffeine is this kind of variable in this experiment.
What is an independent variable?
Lori’s cat becomes alert that food is cooked when the microwave beeps, but not when the coffeemaker makes a similar sound at the end of its brew cycle. Lori’s cat is demonstrating this.
What is stimulus discrimination?
This is the tendency to overestimate the degree to which others think or act like we do.
What is the false consensus effect?
Demi hears messages about the fate of the world from the people on billboards along the highway, and she keeps hearing from Alexander Shunnarah billboards that the end is near. This is an example of a positive symptom of schizophrenia known as this.
What is a hallucination?
The body’s major organs and systems begin to form during this period of prenatal development.
What is the embryonic period?
The brain’s two hemispheres are joined by this structure.
What is the corpus callosum?
The perception of the lowest-pitched sounds one hears is best explained by this theory.
What is the frequency theory?
Children with this type of attachment style will continue to cry upon their mother returning to the room (in the Strange Situations task).
What is ambivalent attachment style?
This form of humanistic therapy, developed by Rogers, aims to help clients self-actualize, or reach their full potential.
What is person-centered therapy?
A tree that blocks one’s view of a house is seen as nearer than the house. This experience exemplifies _______ depth cue of ________. (two answers)
What is monocular & interposition?
Your ability to hear and understand your professor is possible due to the auditory cortex located in this brain lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
Each time Sophie buys a coffee, the barista punches a hole in her coffee club card. When ten holes are punched, Sophie gets a free drink and a new card. Sophie is being reinforced on this kind of schedule.
What is a fixed-ratio schedule?
Tommy is running for mayor of his town, and he knows that his audience is not highly motivated. Thus, he mainly uses emotionally focused ads to change the voters’ attitudes, using this route of persuasion.
What is the peripheral route to persuasion?
This category of medications typically target the neurotransmitters glutamate and serotonin, and are often helpful in treating bipolar disorders.
What are mood-stabilizing medications?
This neurotransmitter is most closely associated with the “fight-or-flight” response.
What is norepinephrine?