Introduction
Paul is inherently good. Even though he committed a business fraud, he has always donated to charities. I subscribe to the ______ school of psychology.
What is Humanism/Humanistic School of Psychology?
Unanticipated outside factor that affects both variables of interest, giving the false impression that changes in one variables caused changes in another variable
What is a confounding variable/ What is a confound?
Study of gene-environment interactions such as how the same genotype leads to different phenotypes
What is epigenetics?
The awareness of internal and external stimuli such as feelings of hunger and pain or detection of light.
What is Consciousness?
When an organism makes connections between stimuli or events that occur together in the environment.
What is Associative learning?
The school of psychology focuses on experiences as a whole rather than the individual parts.
What is Gestalt Psychology?
The participants that experience the manipulated variable (group designed to answer the research question).
What is an Experimental Group?
The neurotransmitter for muscle action and memory.
What is Acetylcholine?
These are hallucinogens that increase heart rate and blood pressure.
What class of drug is marijuana and LSD?
This is the initial period of learning when an organism learns to connect a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus.
What is Acquisition?
A well-developed set of ideas that propose an explanation for observed phenomena.
What is a Theory?
Specific conclusions are drawn based on a general premise.
What is deductive reasoning?
View of gene-environment interaction that asserts our genes affect our environment, and our environment influences the expression of our genes.
What is Genetic environmental correlation?
Paul did not sleep well last night. His roommate played loud music and the light in the room was on for the whole night. His brain's difficulty with switching between sleep and wakefulness would be an example of __________.
What is sleep regulation?
When the bell (neutral stimulus) was repeatedly paired with the food (unconditioned stimulus, UCS), the neutral stimulus starts to elicit a response similar to that of UCS. The neutral stimulus has become an __________.
Conditioned stimulus - What is it?
Studies in which the same group of individuals is surveyed or measured repeatedly over an extended period of time.
What is a Longitudinal Study?
_________ is the variable that is influenced/controlled by the experimenter; _______ is the variable that the researcher measures to see how much effect the first variable had.
What is Independent variable? What is Dependent variable?
Agonist or Antagonist? - drug that mimics or strengthens the effects of a neurotransmitter.
What is the function of an Agonist?
Asan is a flight attendant and has traveled from Dubai to Milan today. When he reaches his hotel, he feels fatigue, sluggishness, irritability, and insomnia. These symptoms are typical for someone who is ___________.
Jet Lag
When the dog learns to distinguish between the bell and phone ringing, then it has learnt to respond differently to various stimuli that are similar. This is called ____.
Stimulus discrimination - what is it?
When the dog started salivating to the bell after repeatedly pairing of the bell with the food, this field of psychology was interested in understanding what motor and sensory systems involved.
What is biopsychology?
This type of correlation is defined as two variables change in different directions, with one becoming larger as the other becomes smaller; a negative correlation is not the same thing as no correlation.
What is Negative Correlation?
Strip of cortex involved in planning and coordinating movement.
What is the purpose of the motor cortex?
This stage is sleep is characterized by sleep spindles and K-complexes.
What is Stage 2 NREM Theta?
I took away the punishment I had for my daughter's disobedience when she told me that it was to protect her sister from physical harm. In operant conditioning, from the perspective of the child, this would be termed as ______?
Negative Reinforcement - what is it?