Social Psychology
Taking credit for positive events, and attributing negative events to forces outside of our control is known as this error in thinking.
What is self-serving bias?
This term refers to the ability of the brain to bounce back from injury and grow over time.
What is neuroplasticity?
Bandura gave us the foundations for Observational Learning by utilizing an inflatable doll modeled after this common phobia.
What is a clown?
Most therapies covered in class are rooted in this approach to psychology.
What is Behaviorism?
The gnomes around the room have styles that are based in this Scandinavian nation.
What is Sweden?
Holding the door for others, and paying it forward are both examples of these types of norms.
What are reciprocity norms?
This sleep disorder is characterized by temporary lapses in breathing and disruption to the quality and duration of sleep.
What is sleep apnea?
This psychologist gave us the concept of g or a generalized intelligence that can be represented by one numerical value.
Who is Spearman?
This type of therapy is particularly effective for those with specific phobias as it helps patients learn that their phobic trigger is not as scary as they perceive it to be.
What is exposure therapy? (Systemic desensitization)
Mr. MacKinnon used to street perform in high school outside of this Ivy-League University's campus.
What is Harvard University?
This big-5 personality trait refers to the ease in which others can interact with an individual, and how pleasant they are to be around.
What is agreeableness?
While habituation involves becoming bored with repeated stimulation and constant stimulus (like a baby not responding to a shape over time), this process is far more involuntary and does not involve our attention.
What is sensory adaptation?
This type of learning is characterized by a sudden realization of a solution to a problem, without any prior thought or problem solving.
What is insight learning?
This form of therapy involves the utilization of journaling as a means of rationalizing and changing unwanted behaviors, particularly for those with personality disorders.
What is Dialectical (Dialectic) Behavioral Therapy?
This number is the average roll on a 20-sided dice.
What is 10.5?
The discomfort with being out of our normal resting state and the desire to return to that state is known as this motivational theory.
What is drive-reduction theory?
What is the cochlea?
Sternberg claimed that intelligence could be broken into these three categories. (Need all 3 for credit)
What are practical, analytical and creative?
This technique, used within Applied-Behavioral Analysis, involves presenting secondary reinforcers as means to achieve primary reinforcers by those using this technique.
What are token economies?
While the metric system and out Arabic Numeral system are base-10, and Binary is base-2, the Babylonian number system used a base power of this number. (Closest will be correct)
What is base-60?
The general fear of others and out-groups, specifically with regards to racial or ethnic identity is known as this term.
What is Xenophobia?
These structures within the retina are responsible for sending information between the rods/cones, and the bipolar cells that follow.
Taste Aversion was proposed by this conditioning psychologist, stating that we learn bad associations with food through classical conditioning processes.
Who is John Garcia?
This form of therapy uses electricity to stimulate parts of the brain that may be underactive, and despite its' name, can be used to treat depression.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
A standard tennis court is this many feet long. (Answers within 5 will count as correct.)
What is 78 feet? (Correct = 73 - 83)