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100
Dr. H studies how the speed at which people can learn new facts changes from youth to middle age to old age. What subfield does he belong to?
developmental psychology
100
A researcher sits in the Eslite cafeteria watching people line up to purchase food at a restaurant. She records the number of times people of each gender cut in line, in front of someone else. What type of descriptive research is she conducting?
naturalistic observation
100
As salary increases, suicide rates decrease. Salary and suicide have a ____ correlation
negative
100
Electrical stimulation on different parts of this brain structure can lead to fear and aggression.
amygdala
100
An oversupply of this major excitatory transmitter can lead to seizures and/or migraines.
glutamate
200
Inspired by Darwin, William James used this approach/perspective to explore the purpose behind our thoughts and behavior.
functionalism
200
In spite of the fact that many Americans reacted with shock when Donald Trump won the 2016 election, my Uncle John says that based on recent patterns of xenophobia, racism, and mistrust of the government, it was clear that this would happen. Uncle John in demonstrating ____.
hindsight bias
200
Dr. W is testing the effects of regular exercise on the speed at which a person falls asleep at night. Give two examples of confounding variables that Dr. W should consider when designing her experiment.
Many possible answers. Examples: caffeine intake; anxiety levels; food eaten directly before bed; screen usage; comfort of bad
200
This measures brain waves (electrical activity in the brain)
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
200
Robert Wadlow, who grew to 2.72 meters in height, had a tumor near this gland, which produces growth hormones.
pituitary gland
300
Dr. Marco explains to a client that his feelings of hostility toward a coworker are most likely caused by the way the client interprets the coworkers actions and the way he thinks people should behave at work. Dr. Marco is most likely working from what perspective?
cognitive
300
Roger believes that people who live in cities are generally much ruder than people who live in the countryside. His sister Clara showed him psychological research that rudeness is about equal in the city and country. Roger refused to believe her, and Roger and his friend Joe told Clara about many examples of people who had travelled to the city and were treated rudely there. Roger and Joe are suffering from a(n) ____.
illusory correlation (but if someone says "availability heuristic", accept this as an answer too)
300
Which experimental design is used to minimize experimenter bias and the effects of demand characteristics?
double-blind procedure
300
An oversupply of this neurotransmitter is linked to schizophrenia.
dopamine
300
Areas more sensitive to touch have a larger area of cortex devoted to them in this cortical area.
somatosensory cortex
400
Titchener used the method of ____ to try and understand the structure of the mind. This method relied on people reporting their inner thought processes.
introspection
400
In Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince, Harry tricks his friend Ron into believing that Harry has given him some lucky potion. Believing that he took the potion, Ron actually ends up performing better than usual. This demonstrates the ____.
placebo effect
400
A psychologist creates a frequency polygon charting the SAT scores of incoming freshman at her university. She is utilizing ____ statistics.
descriptive (***If students forgot the term frequency polygram, remind them that it is a line graph used to visualize distributions, just as a histogram is a bar graph used to visualize distributions.)
400
Neurons producing THIS neurotransmitter deteriorate during Alzheimer's disease.
ACh (acetlycholine)
400
When this is damaged, under experimental conditions you will be able to pick up with your LEFT HAND and object that you claim you can't see.
corpus callosum
500
Harvard refused to give _____, student of William James, her psychology degree, so _____ became the first woman to earn a PhD in psychology.
Mary Whiton Calkins; Margaret Floy Washburn
500
On the Wechsler intelligence test, the mean IQ score is 100. The standard deviation is 15. Monica's score was 145. What was Monica's z-score?
+3
500
Imagine an outlier causes a distribution to be positively skewed. Picture the curve this would create in your mind. Where is the mean, in relation to the mode and median, on this distribution?
The mean is moved to the right of the mode and median by the high outlier (positive skew). For a negative skew, it would move to the left.
500
This gland secretes melatonin, which helps regulate sleep cycles.
pineal gland
500
This brain structure produces dopamine; accidental stimulation here on rats led to the discovery of "reward centers" in the brain and helps explain addiction to certain drugs.
hypothalamus