Discipline of Psychology
The study of the mind.
What is psychology?
The variable that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
The subcortical structure responsible for much of memory.
What is the hippocampus?
Small bumps on the tongue that contain taste buds.
What are papilae?
The process of systematically destroying excess synapses during development.
What is pruning?
In Pavlov's observational experiment, it was the unconditioned stimulus.
What is food?
The reason you would do better on an exam that doesn't allow you to listen to music if you also don't listen to music when you study.
What is context-dependent memory?
A rule of thumb in which a higher value is placed on the more easily recognized alternative.
What is the recognition heuristic?
A protective behaviour that reduces anxiety.
What is a defence mechanism?
The tendency to completely ignore situational variables when making attributions, instead considering only dispositional ones.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
A repetitive and persistent pattern of behaviour in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated.
What is conduct disorder?
He is considered the first psychologist.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The percent of a normal population one standard deviation from the mean
What is 68%?
The area of the brain home to the primary visual cortex.
What is the occipital lobe?
They are the elements of the eye that excel at seeing dim light, but cannot see colour.
What are rods?
The parenting style characterized by high parental support and low behavioural regulation.
What is indulgent/permissive?
Removing a positive stimulus in order to reduce the preceding behaviour.
What is negative punishment?
The number of stages of memory in the Atkinson-Shiffrin Multistore Model of memory.
The colour with two distinct names in the Russian language.
What is blue?
A cognitive expectancy featured in social-cognitive learning theories of personality about the source of individual outcomes.
What is the locus of control?
Performing a helpful act with the expectation that a favour will someday be returned by those you have helped.
What is reciprocal altriusm?
The neurotransmitter responsible for producing the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
The perspective of psychology that famous Canadian psychologist Brenda Milner belongs to.
What is the cognitive perspective?
A variable responsible for the observed correlation between the two variables of interest.
What is a third variable?
The type of signal that is transmitted between neurons, in the synapse.
What are chemical signals?
The two parts of the body emphasized by the human homunculus.
What are hands and face?
The third stage of Piaget's theory, characterized by logical reasoning and mastery of conservation.
What is the concrete operational stage?
The tendency to respond to stimuli that are similar to an original conditioned stimulus.
What is generalization?
The mechanism responsible for combining information stored in long-term memory.
What is the episodic buffer?
Worldwide increases in IQ scores of about three points per decade for the last 100 years.
What is the Flynn Effect?
A social-cognitive learning theory of personality that features the mutual influence of the person and that of the situation on each other.
What is reciprocal determinism?
Convincing someone of your argument using the manner of presentation and speaker characteristics, such as emotional appeals from an attractive person, rather than through a purely logical approach.
What is the peripheral route of persuasion?
A model that suggests that the experience of stress interacts with an individual's pre-existing vulnerability to produce a psychological disorder.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
The meaning of the word Gestalt.
Form, or whole
A design that has multiple age cross sections and takes place over multiple sessions.
What is a mixed longitudinal design?
The division of the autonomic nervous system associated with rest.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
The structure located on the basilar membrane that contains auditory receptors.
What is the organ of corti?
If the baby's head falls backwards, the arms first spread out and then "hug".
What is the Moro reflex?
The experimenter who did the Bobo doll experiment, along with developing social learning theory.
Who is Albert Bandura?
A coordinated memory system among a close group or dyad.
What is a transactive memory?
The cause of most intellectual disability resulting in an IQ of 55 to 70.
What are cultural and familial factors?
What is the nomothetic approach?
The type of love that involves intimacy and commitment, according to Sternberg's Triangular Model of Love.
What is companionate love?
The person responsible for discovering and creating the diagnostic criteria for autism.
Who is Leo Kanner?
Edward Thorndike's major contribution to the field of psychology.
What is the law of effect?
What was the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?
The neurotransmitter responsible for inhibition of brain activity.
What is GABA?
The part of the brain responsible for recognizing faces.
What is the fusiform face area?
According to Vygotsky's theory, it refers to tasks that a child can accomplish with assistance from more experienced individuals.
What is the zone of proximal development?
The reinforcement schedule that is most effective at creating the most cumulative number of responses as quickly as possible.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
The neurotransmitter responsible for assisting in encoding memory.
What is acetylcholine?
The psychologist responsible for developing the IQ score.
Who was Lewis Terman?
The first psychologist to develop a model of personality based on biology.
Who was Hans Eysenck?
Which hormone is responsible for greater aggression due to increasing the sensitivity of the amygdala to threatening stimuli; AND which neurotransmitter is responsible for reducing aggression through enhanced empathy or promoting frontal-lobe activity to reduce impulsive behaviour?
What are testosterone and serotonin?
The compound strongly implicated in vulnerability for bipolar disorder during prenatal development.
What are Omega B fatty acids?