Part 1
A baby instantly pulls their hand away after touching a hot stove before their brain fully processes the pain.
What is the spinal reflex arc?
A new mother feels bonding and attachment toward her newborn due to a hormone release.
What is oxytocin?
Dreams are created as the brain tries to make sense of random neural activity during sleep.
What is activation-synthesis theory?
A researcher defines sleep deprivation as keeping participants awake for 24 hours.
What is an operational definition of sleep deprivation?
A rat learns a maze but only shows it when food is introduced later.
What is latent learning?
A person eats food to stop feeling hungry.
What is drive-reduction theory?
After experiencing fear on a rollercoaster, a person later feels excitement when riding again.
What is opponent-process theory?
A trained animal suddenly reverts back to its natural behavior instead of the learned one.
What is instinctive drift?
You remember the first and last questions on a test better than the middle ones.
What is the serial position effect?
Old information makes it harder to learn new material.
What is proactive interference?
A person cannot remember events from before a car accident.
What is retrograde amnesia?
A person believes plane crashes are common because they see them often on the news.
What is the availability heuristic?
An infant refuses to crawl across a glass-covered drop-off.
What is the visual cliff?
A person hears music and sees colors at the same time.
What is synesthesia?
You perceive a door as rectangular even when viewing it at an angle.
What are perceptual constancies?
Lights blinking in sequence appear as continuous motion (like animation).
What is apparent movement?
A person returns a favor because someone helped them earlier.
What is the social reciprocity norm
A person agrees to donate after first refusing a larger request
What is the door-in-the-face phenomenon?
A person believes they failed a test because the teacher was unfair, not because they didn’t study.
What is self-serving bias?
A group ignores better ideas to maintain harmony and avoid conflict.
What is groupthink?