Neuroscience
Name 2 different layers of the retina.
What are photopigment cells, horizontal cells, bipolar cells, amacrine cells, and ganglion cells?
What is the software used to analyze quantitative data in psychology and sociology?
What is the statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS)?
What term is defined as "an unjustifiable negative attitude toward a group"?
What is prejudice?
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
What is this psychologist’s study with dogs led to the concept of classical conditioning?
Name 2 of the 4 Ds of psychopathology.
What are deviance, dysfunction, distress, and danger?
What is the primary purpose of the magnocellular system located in the lateral geniculate nucleus?
You need to use SPSS to compare the mean values of two different group conditions. What test do you perform?
What is an independent samples T-test?
Every time a student hears the school bell ring at 12:00 PM, they go to lunch. Over time, just hearing the bell, even on a weekend or in a different building, makes the student start to feel hungry. What is the conditioned response in the scenario?
What is feeling hungry when they hear the bell ring?
What is cognitive dissonance?
What is a therapist might explore this when a client’s words don’t align with their actions?
What is groupthink?
What is a psychological phenomenon that explains why people are more likely to conform in group settings?
The process of your brain changing by allowing a specific stimulus to travel down a specific path in order to form a memory is referred to as what?
What is long term potentiation (LTP)?
Name 2 ways of getting a representative sample of a population?
What is probability sampling (simple random, systematic, stratified) and convenience sampling (convenience, judgement, snowball, quota)?
What is the fundamental attribution error (FAE)?
What is the tendency to believe that what people do reflects who they are; observers tend to underestimate the influence of the situation and overestimate dispositional influences?
What is transference?
What is in counseling, this term describes the client projecting feelings about someone else (like a parent) onto the therapist?
How many mechanisms of action are involved in the pharmacodynamics of methamphetamine?
What is 4 (blocks reuptake/reverses transport, increases dopamine release, releases dopamine from vesicles, increases dopamine synthesis)?
Name the primary excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters in the central nervous system.
What is glutamate (excitatory) and GABA (inhibitory)?
What is the difference between 'survey' and 'questionnaire'?
Our attitudes are comprised of 3 components that are referred to as the ABCs of attitudes. Name them.
What are affect, behavior, and cognition?
What are affirmations?
What are brief, positive statements used by counselors to build rapport and highlight client strengths?
In evolutionary psychology we study how our brains developed in the EEA, and how they subsequently function in the modern world. What does EEA stand for?
What is environment and evolutionary adaptedness?
Name the three different theories for how we perceive colors.
What are the trichromatic theory of color, the opponent process theory of color vision, and top-down processing?
"Are you happy and hungry?" What is the problem with this question methodologically?
What is it's a double-barreled question?
What is the term that describes how people will attribute successes to internal factors (ie. character, motivation, etc) but blame failures on external factors (ie. other people, bad luck, etc)?
What is self-serving bias?
What does the term OARS stand for?
What is this phrase represents the core communication skills: open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summarizing in motivational interviewing?
What is the difference between opioids and opiates?
What is opiates come directly from the opium poppy and opioids do not?