Unit 1
We has human beings tend to see patterns when there aren't any, what is this called?
Perceiving order in random events
Frontal Lobe
Prefrontal Cortex
What does Operant conditioning use to condition?
Reinforcement/Punishment
Algorithm vs Heuristic
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IQ means
Intelligent Quotient
First psychology lab was created by who?
For extra points you can say what his first test was or where the lab was
William Wundt
University of Leipzig
Button-hit it when you hear, and hit it when you are aware you have heard it
Large band of neural fibers that connects the brain hemispheres
Corpus Callosum
What needs to be paired together in Classical Conditioning?
UCS and CS
Tendency to cling to your beliefs even if they have been discredited
Belief Perseverance
How are modern day IQ scores calculated?
Percentile
Naturalistic Observation vs experiments
Experiments are where you as the researchers are actively changing a variable
Sympathetic vs Parasympathetic
Sympathetic=arouses
Parasympathetic=calms
Positive Punishment vs Negative Punishment
Positive Punishment=Add an averse stimulus
Negative Punishment=Take away a favorable stimulus
Framing is...
The way a question is worded to elicit a certain response
Crystalized vs Fluid Intelligence
Crystallized= one's lifetime of intellectual achievement
Fluid=capacity to think on the spot to solve new problems
Please operationally define the word that is italicized in the following theory...
College athletes are healthier than other students
Must give some sort of replicable/ exact definition
Ex. Weight, Max rep amount/weight, VO2 max, body fat percentage
What are the three neuron types?
Motor
Inter
Sensory
What is the best reinforcement schedule for a behavior to be hard to extinguish?
Variable Ratio
Smallest unit that carries meaning
morpheme
What is split-half reliability?
When you take a test, and split it into equal halves, and each half yields similar results/scores
Who was the father of Behaviorism (an outdated school of psychology, different from Behavioral)? For extra points, what was his view on psychology?
John B Watson
That Psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
What is Broca's Aphasia?
Where you can understand speech but cannot speak
When something that was intrinsic motivation is given extrinsic motivation, and intrinsic motivation disappears
Smallest distinct sound unit in language
Phoneme
In order to be acceptable a test needs to be three things. What are those, and what do they mean?
Valid-tests what it is meant to
Reliable-yields consistent results
Standardized-Bell Curve