Scientific Psychology
Measure of the extent to which two variables change together, and thus of how well either variable predicts the other.
What is Correlation?
Focusing of conscious awareness on a participar stimulus.
What is Selective Attention?
Caffeine, nicotine, and cocaine are all
What is Stimulants?
The basic building block of the nervous system is called a
What is a Neuron?
Think of it as knowledge for “hard” facts. The accumulation of knowledge, facts, and skills that are acquired throughout life.
What is Crystallized Knowledge?
The closer to (+/-) (blank), the stronger the relationship.
What is One?
What are the 3 main processes that characterize how memory works?
What is Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval?
Which brain lobe processes sound?
What is Temporal Lobe?
A set of brain structures located on both sides of the thalamus, immediately beneath the temporal lobe, that controls emotion, behavior, motivation, learning, and memory.
What is the Limbic System?
Name one of the multiple intelligences:
Verbal, Logistical, Visual. Musical, Bodily, Naturalist, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Existential
In a negative correlation, two variables move in (blank) direction.
What is opposite?
Momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds.
What is an Echoic Memory?
A psychological theory that explains how the mind perceives color and how it can also be applied to other areas, such as emotion.
What is Opponent Process Theory?
This hormone controls your sleep
What is Melatonin?
What does (g) stand for?
What is General Intelligence?
The middle score in a rank-ordered distribution. Half the scores are above and half below.
What is Median?
Explain the serial position effect.
According to the serial position effect, you are more likely to remember the last and first items better than the ones in the middle.
At the end of the study when the researchers share the purpose of the experiment with the test subjects.
What is Debriefing?
Controls functions like, judgments, emotions (controlling them), personality, temperament, movement (motor cortex).
What is the Frontal Lobe?
Ability to decipher information and make decisions (especially in new situations), which is more difficult at an old age, so it decreases as we age (past middle adulthood).
What is Fluid Intelligence?
Computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.
What is Standard Deviation?
Explain the difference between implicit and explicit memory.
Implicit=Automatic Processing
Explicit=Effortful Processing
"The love hormone" is also known as
What is Oxytocin?
Responsible for automatic survival functions.
What is the Brainstem?
(Blank) are intended to reflect what you have already learned – current level of knowledge.
(Blank) are intended to predict your ability to learn a new skill – how well you could do.
What is Achievement and Aptitude Tests?