Motivation/Emotion/Sexuality
This term describes the wants or needs that direct behavior toward a goal.
Learning in which the stimulus or experience occurs before the behavior and then gets paired or associated with the behavior
classical conditioning
This person created the 8 stages of psychosocial development
Erik Erikson
Decibels (dB)
What is a group of crows called?
A Murder
Motivation based on internal feelings rather than external rewards
Intrinsic Motivation
Process where the observer sees the model punished, making the observer less likely to imitate the model’s behavior
Vicarious Punishment
Any environmental agent, biological, chemical, or physical that can cause damage to a developing embryo is called this.
Teratogen
Field of psychology based on the idea that the whole is different from the sum of its parts
Who won the first season of American Idol?
Kelly Clarkson
This type of need is at the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Self-actualization --> inner fulfillment
With this reinforcement schedule, reinforcement is delivered after an unpredictable number of responses
Variable Ratio
Theorists who view development in unique stages at specific times or ages would describe development as this.
Discontinuous
According to the trichromatic theory of color vision, all colors in the spectrum can be produced by combining what colors?
Red, Green, Blue
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie (1903)
Theory that suggests that physiological arousal and emotional experience occur at the same time
Cannon-bard theory of emotion
In the case of Pavlov conditioning dogs to associate a bell tone with food, the bell is considered the what?
Conditioned stimulus (CS)
Parents with this parenting style place a high value on conformity and obedience.
Authoritarian
This type of photoreceptor in the eye is involved in our ability to see color
Cones
In bowling, three strikes in a row is called?
A turkey
This theory states that simple tasks are performed best when arousal levels are relatively high, while complex tasks are best performed when arousal is lower
Yerkes-Dodson Law
Who first proposed the law of effect which states that behaviors that are followed by consequences that are satisfying to the organisms are more likely to be repeated and behaviors that are followed by unpleasant consequences are less likely to be repeated
Edward Thorndike
The maturation of the adrenal glands is called this.
Adrenarche
This principle of Gestalt psychology states that we organize our perceptions into complete objects rather than as a series of parts
Principle of Closure
Name one of the celebrities still in the competition for Dancing with the Stars
Phaedra Parks, Danny Amendola, Ilona Maher, Joey Graziadei, Chandler Kinney, Jenn Tran, Dwight Howard, Stephen Nedoroscik