Unit 1 - Scientific Foundations
Which perspective would be most useful when explaining how people from different countries express anger? (a) social-cultural (b) psychodynamic (c) behavioral (d) functionalist (e) biological
What is social-cultural?
The ______ of a neuron transmit neurotransmitters to the ______ of the next neuron, passing on a signal.
What is the axon and the dendrite?
What does wavelength help us see?
What is Hue/Color?
Who is the father of classical conditioning?
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
A tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past.
What is mental set?
What are psychology's 3 major levels of analysis?
What is biological, psychological, and social-cultural?
The ______ connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain, and cutting it makes a person split-brained.
The ___, ____, and ____ are all part of the middle ear.
What are the hammer, anvil, & stirrup?
Albert Bandura’s “BoBo Doll” experiment included what type of learning?
What is observational learning?
System of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.
What is grammar?
Which type of psychology is Jean Piaget best known for?
What is developmental
The ______ system is associated with emotion and drives, and is made up of the hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus.
Who designed the visual cliff experiment to test depth perception?
Who is Eleanor Gibson?
Edward Tolman’s experiment found two things, what are they?
What are latent learning and cognitive maps?
The smallest distinctive sound unit in language.
What is a phoneme?
According to the behaviorist perspective, what should psychological science be rooted in? (a.) introspection (b.) observation (c.) cultural influences (d.) growth potential (e.) basic needs
What is observation?
This neurotransmitter is heavily involved in muscle movement, learning, and memory, and a lack of it can lead to Alzheimer’s Disease
What is ACH - Acetylcholine?
What are the 4 areas of parallel processing?
What are motion, form, depth, & color?
If you become violently ill after eating oysters, you are likely to struggle to eat them again because their taste and smell become a conditioned stimulus for nausea. What is this effect called and who’s experiment is this?
What is taste aversion and John Garcia?
As his AP psychology teacher was lecturing, Harun was thinking about competing in a soccer game later that afternoon. Where are Harun’s current thoughts being processed?
What is working memory?
Which psychological principle best explains why studying an hour a day for a week is more effective than one 7-hour study session?
What is distributed practice?
The fancy for term for a sensory neuron
What is an afferent neuron?
____ thresholds are the minimum stimulation necessary to detect senses; ___ thresholds are the minimum difference a person can detect between any two stimuli; ___ stimuli are those that you cannot detect 50% of the time.
What are: absolute, difference, & subliminal?
Kelly was talked into riding on the roller coaster when she was 12. On the ride she got sick and puked all over everyone. Now whenever she goes to the amusement park, she breaks into a cold sweat if she even looks at the roller coaster. Identify the US, UR, CS, CR.
What is … US - roller coaster UR - her fear CS - amusement park CR - her fear
When Piaget attributed a memory to his own experiences instead of his nursemaid's stories, he experienced an example of this.
What is source amnesia?