A relatively lasting change in behavior that is the result of experience.
What is learning?
100
These basic cells of the nervous system use electrochemical transmission.
What are neurons?
100
The mental process of sorting, identifying, and arranging raw sensory data into meaningful patterns.
What is perception?
100
B. F. Skinner is associated with this school of thought.
What is behaviorism/radical behaviorism?
200
The general term for the extent to which an instrument measures or predicts what it is intended to.
What is is validity?
200
This type of reinforcement increases the likelihood of a behavior by removing a negative stimuli.
What is a negative (reinforcement)?
200
A brief electrical impulse by which information is transmitted along the axon of the neuron.
What is action potential?
200
Nearly half of the participants in Simons and Chabris's 1999 inattentional blindness study failed to see this when watching people pass a basketball back and forth.
What is a gorilla (a person in a gorilla suit)?
200
A method of self-observation where participants report their thoughts and feelings.
What is introspection?
300
This research method examines the degree of relationship between two or more variables.
What is correlational (research method)?
300
This learning is not immediate, but knowledge that is used when needed.
What is latent learning?
300
Damage to this area of the left temporal lobe can result in inappropriate or nonsensical word choice.
What is Wernicke's area?
300
Theory of color vision that states the color of any light is determined by the output of the three cone system in the retina.
What is the Trichromatic (theory) (Young-Helmholtz or Three color)?
300
This psychologist founded and promoted the new field of psychology and distinguished it from other disciplines.
Who is (Wilhelm) Wundt?
400
The division of the sample into groups so that every individual has an equal chance of being put in any group or condition.
What is random assignment?
400
This theory of motivation was developed by Clark Hull in 1943.
What is Drive-Reduction Theory?
400
This part of the limbic system deals with processing emotion, particularly anger.
What is the amygdala?
400
Pain relief that occurs when a person believes that a pill or procedure will reduce pain.
What is the placebo effect?
400
This school of thought, spearheaded by E. B. Titchener, said that the first task of psychology is to discover basic sensation-elements of experience.
What is structuralism?
500
This infamous study on the effects of syphilis in the late 1960's highlights, among other things, the importance of informed consent in research.
What is the Tuskegee study?
500
Conditioning based on previous learning, where the conditioned stimulus serves as an unconditioned stimulus for further training.
What is Higher order conditioning?
500
This is a complex network of nuclei in the core of the brainstem that is essential to many motor functions.
What is the reticular activating system (RAS)?
500
A phenomenon in which vision influences the sounds a person reports hearing.
What is the McGurk effect?
500
She was the first woman to receive a PhD in psychology.