In the Beginning
Scientific Method
Learning
Learning II
Miscellaneous
100
Who is credited as the founder of psychology?
Wilhelm Wundt
100
The variable that you measure
What is the dependent variable
100
Her students panic and outwardly cry of impending faillure whenever the teacher gives a test. What type of behavior have the students learned.
What is learned helplessness.
100
Who is considered the founder of Classical Conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov
100
Cues that depend on the use of two eyes are considered to be
Binocular Cues
200
The psychological approach, founded by Sigmund Freud, concentrates on the unconscious mind.
Psychoanalytic (later Psychodynamic)
200
The variable that you manipulate.
What is the independent variable
200
A teacher rewards a student for sitting quietly for ten minutes on Monday, fifteen minutes on Tuesday, twenty minutes on Wednesday, and thirty minutes on Thursday. What is this an example of?
What is shaping?
200
Who "discovered" Operant Conditioning?
B.F. Skinner
200
The perception that we direct and create our own fate
What is internal locus of control
300
Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation is known as...
Naturalistic or Observation
300
An experiment where the researcher and the participant do not know which is the placebo and which is the medicine.
What is Double Blind experiment
300
An individual’s fear of dogs that is lost as the individual is exposed to dogs in nonthreatening situations is referred to by behaviorists as a fear that has been
What is extinguished.
Will accept extinction although this is classical conditioning.
300
a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid threatened punishment
What is Extrinsic Motivation
*will accept behavior modification although this is what is done to others not chosen from within.
300
This is the tendency to look toward support for your own beliefs or see what you want to see in your results.
What is Confirmation Bias
400
Which two philosophers are at the center of the Nature vs Nurture debate?
Rene Descartes, John Locke
400
This percentage represents one Standard Deviation away from zero.
400
A child who learns that spoons are tableware and then correctly calls forks and knives tableware is demonstrating
What is stimulus generalization.
*will accept generalization
400
Mrs. Myers decides to postpone a cumulative final in her AP Psych class. Her students then tell her that she is their favorite teacher. What is the Operant Conditioning technique being used by the students?
What is Positive Reinforcement
400
The initial stage of learning is
Acquisition
500
List out and define/describe 3 different psychological approaches.
Answers will vary.
Socio-cultural Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Biological Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Humanistic/Positive Psychology, Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology.
500
The process of randomly choosing group to participate from the population.
What is Random Sample
500
The terms "modeling" and "imitation" are most closely associated with which type of learning theory.
What is Social Learning Theory
500
Which partial reinforcement schedule that is most resistant to extinction?
What is variable ratio
500
A technique that enables a person to control physiological responses that are normally involuntary, such as level of blood pressure, is known as
What is biofeedback
*remember the video of the individual hooked up to nervous system feedback monitor.