Unit 0:
Research Methods
Research Methods
Unit 1:
Bio Basis
Bio Basis
Sensation/
Perception
Perception
Unit 2: Cognition /Intelligence
Unit 3: Learning / Development
Unit 4:
Social / Personality
Social / Personality
Unit 5:
Health
Health
Misc.
100
The principle requiring participants to be told the true purpose of a study after it ends.
What is debriefing?
100
The classic debate over whether our traits are shaped more by genes or experience.
What is nature vs. nurture?
100
Remy seeing colors while tasting food is an example of this.
What is Synesthesia?
100
A theory of intelligence, developed by Robert Sternberg, proposes that intelligence consists of three distinct but interconnected parts: analytical, creative, and practical.
What is the triarchic theory of intelligence?
100
A parenting style that is demanding but responsive.
What is authoritative parenting?
100
Following direct orders from an authority figure.
What is obedience?
100
A disorder characterized by lack of empathy and disregard for others’ rights.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
100
The brain’s ability to reorganize after injury or experience.
What is plasticity / neuroplasticity?
200
A numerical measure that describes the strength and direction of a relationship between two variables.
What is a correlation coefficient?
200
The division that calms the body after stress.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
200
Competing theory explaining afterimages and color pairs like red–green.
What is opponent-process theory?
200
This type of processing requires attention and conscious effort, like studying flashcards.
What is effortful processing?
200
The automatic response infants show when something touches their cheek.
What is the rooting reflex?
200
The Big Five AKA Five Factor theory of personality consists of these traits.
What are:
Contentiousness
Agreeableness
Neuroticism/Emotional Stability
Openness
Extraversion
200
Mark believes he has been chosen to become the next president of the world and insists he has special powers that make him more important than everyone else, despite no evidence supporting these beliefs.
This is an example of _______symptom of schizophrenia.
What are delusions of grandeur?
200
This phase of sleep is when the brain is least active.
What is NREM 3?
300
A research method that examines one individual or group in depth.
What is a case study?
300
This disease is caused by a deterioration of the myelin sheath and causes the failure of the central nervous system to communicate with the peripheral nervous system.
What is Multiple Sclerosis?
300
The height of sound waves that determines loudness.
What is amplitude?
300
A component of working memory that temporarily stores and manipulates visual and spatial information, such as visualizing a route or mentally rotating an object.
What is the Visuospatial Sketchpad ?
300
Understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of sight.
What is object permanence?
300
Helping behavior with no expectation of reward.
What is altruism?
300
This theory suggests schizophrenia involves overactive dopamine systems.
What is the dopamine hypothesis?
300
The brief electrical charge that travels down an axon.
What is an action potential?
400
The variable that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
400
Drugs that block neurotransmitter receptor sites.
What are antagonists?
400
The structure that focuses light by changing shape/accommodation.
What is the lens?
400
This nonconscious activation of associations - such as seeing the word “yellow” making you think of “banana.”
What is priming?
400
Learning by watching others rather than through direct experience.
What is observational learning?
400
After failing three exams in one day, you go home to blow off steam by playing Grand Theft Auto. This is an example of_________.
What is displacement?
400
A therapist using the humanistic approach listens carefully, reflects the client’s feelings, and provides unconditional positive regard without judging them. They want the client to reach their own solutions and often repeats things back to them. This is also called ____________.
What is person-centered therapy?
400
A measure of internal consistency where a test is divided into two halves, and the scores of the two halves are correlated to determine how well they measure the same concept.
What is Split-Half Reliability?
500
This statistical term represents the middle point of a data set.
What is the median?
500
An oversupply of this transmitter can lead to migraines.
What is Glutamate?
500
The tendency to see an unbroken whole even when parts are missing.
What is closure?
500
We can remember more easily words at the beginning or end of a list - we tend to forget the words in the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
500
After getting food poisoning from shrimp, Maya feels nauseous every time she smells seafood - even years later. This is an example of ________.
What is taste aversion?
500
This theory proposes that people are motivated to maintain an optimal level of alertness and excitement.
What is Arousal Theory?
500
Repetitive behaviors performed to reduce anxiety.
What are compulsions?
500
When a child believes that “boys should not cry” because of cultural expectations, this belief reflects this concept.
What is a gender role?
600
The standard deviation of this Bell Curve is ____.
What is 3?
600
Also known as sleepwalking, this disorder causes individuals to move or walk around during deep NREM sleep.
What is somnambulism?
600
The mental framework that influences how we interpret stimuli.
What are schemas OR perceptual set?
600
When misleading information changes or distorts your memory of an event.
What is the misinformation effect?
600
The principle stating that behaviors followed by favorable consequences are more likely to recur.
What is the Law of Effect?
600
Persuasion that uses strong arguments and thoughtful processing.
What is central route persuasion?
600
Theory describing the body’s response to prolonged stress.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
600
A person working with the researcher who poses as a participant but whose actions and responses are predefined.
What is a confederate?
700
The committee that reviews psychological research for ethical concerns before it’s conducted.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
700
This term describes the proportion of variation among individuals that can be attributed to genes.
What is heritability?
700
Failure to notice something obvious when focused elsewhere.
What is inattentional blindness?
700
This memory system holds about 7 items for around 20 seconds without rehearsal.
What is short-term memory?
700
The smallest units of meaning in language.
What are morphemes?
700
When we blame others’ actions on their character but blame our own on the situation.
What is actor-observer bias?
700
Freud’s technique in which clients say whatever comes to mind.
What is free association?
700
After receiving good news, a student becomes more creative, open to ideas, and socially engaged.
What is the Broaden-and-Build Theory?
800
This concept refers to your score relative to others - e.g., scoring 90 means you did better than 90% of people.
What is percentile rank?
800
The structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
800
A binocular cue where the brain compares slightly different retinal images.
What is retinal disparity?
800
This fast-thinking error occurs when people mistakenly believe prior outcomes affect future ones, like thinking a coin “must” land heads after many tails.
What is the gambler’s fallacy?
800
The reappearance of a conditioned response after a rest period following extinction.
What is spontaneous recovery?
800
After her heart starts racing on a roller coaster, Maya interprets the feeling as excitement because she knows she’s at an amusement park.
What is the Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory?
800
A behavioral therapy using gradual exposure to feared stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?
800
Vivid experiences that occur as a person falls asleep. They can involve visual, auditory, or physical sensations, and can be quite intense and realistic.
What are hypnagogic sensations?