Social Psychology
A pattern of behavior that is expected of a person in a group or social setting
Social role
Your dog is barking ver loudly and making your ears ring. You clap your hands, and the dog stops barking, your ears stop ringing, and you think "I'll have to do that again when he barks." The end of the barking for you is an example of...
When forgetting is due to encoding failure, information has not been transferred from...
Short term memory into long-term memory.
A change in a persons behavior to go along with a group.
Conformity.
Does Meg have a pet?
Yes
Self-serving bias
The partial reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response after an unpredictable time periods is...
Variable interval.
Specific odors, visual cues, or other association that help us access a memory are examples of...
Retrieval cues
The activation, often unconsciously of particular associations in memory.
Priming.
The name of Lily's most problematic rat.
What is Remy?
Psychological discomfort from having two inconsistent attitudes, behaviors, or cognitions.
Cognitive dissonance
Some scientists believe that the brain has (blank) neurons that enable empathy and imitation.
Mirror
The hippocampus seems to function as the temporary processing site for (blank) memories.
Explicit.
Our short-term memory for new information is limited to about # digits.
7
Which TA is older?
Lily
Sharing our opinions with like-minded others teds to strengthen our views, a phenomenon called.
Group polarization
Children learn many social behaviors by imitating parents and other models. This type of learning is called...
Observational learning
One reason false memories form is our tendency to fill in memory gaps with our reasonable guesses and assumptions, sometimes based on misleading information. This tendency is an example of...
The misinformation effect.
The name of the box Skinner made.
Operant chamber
What states are your TA's from?
Connecticut and Connecticut
Celebrity endorsements in advertising often lead consumers to purchase products through (blank) route persuasion.
Peripheral (doesn't rely on intrinsic arguments rather emotional, etc).
One way to change behavior is to reward natural behaviors in small steps, as the organism gets closer and closer to a desired behavior. This is called...
Shaping
A psychologist who asks you to write down as many objects as you can remember having seen a few minuets earlier is testing your...
Recall
In classical conditioning responses are (blank), and in operant conditioning responses are (blank).
Involuntary, voluntary.
What are your TA's specific psych interests?
Animal behavior and clinical counseling.