Foundations
Statistics
Cognition
Developmental Psychology
Motivation and Personality
100

Who was the first woman to meet the requirements of earning a Ph.D. in Psychology?

Mary Whiton Calkins

100

If you are conducting a survey and simply select the first 100 people who respond to a mass email as the participants, your results will likely have what problem?

Sampling Bias

100

Which part of the brain explains the occurrence of infantile amnesia?

Hippocampus

100

Which researcher(s) gave psychology important information about the significance of contact comfort?

The Harlows

100

When a person first has a physiological reaction and then knows they feel the emotion, the theory of emotion that best explains this is…

James-Lange

200

What type of psychologist would focus on helping employers motivate and inspire employees?

Industrial/Organizational

200

If you conducted an experiment studying the impact a lack of sleep would have on a student’s test scores, the dependent variable would be what?

Test Scores

200

What did Elizabeth Loftus study/teach us about memory?

Eyewitness testimony, misinformation, framing

200

Which parenting style, according to Baumrind, is the best in our current Western culture?

Authoritative

200

What is it called when people stop enjoying something for which they previously had intrinsic motivation (because they now get extrinsic rewards for that activity)?

The Overjustification Effect

300

What type of psychologist would focus on expectations and perceptions?

Cognitive

300

What is standard deviation?  

The average distance from the mean

300

What is the difference between fluid and crystallized intelligence?

Fluid = puzzles, new processes, procedures

Crystallized = facts, information

300

When a toddler (who knows four-legged animals are dogs) sees a cat and calls it a dog, this is demonstrating what concept from Piaget?

Assimilation

300

What are the three stages of Hans Seyle’s GAS (in order)?

Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

400

Why do some psychologists criticize Skinner’s theory?

Didn’t focus on thoughts and feelings

400

What type of studies utilize scatter plots and how are the results represented?  (The letter.)

Correlational studies/ R

400

Why is attention so important in the memory process?

It transfers information from sensory memory to short term memory

400

What is Mary Ainsworth known for?

Strange Situation/Attachment Styles

400

What happens if the lateral hypothalamus is lesioned?

People will never want to eat

500

What did Wundt argue should be the focus of psychology?

The way we consciously experience the world

500

What is statistical significance? What is a “P Score”?

The likelihood the results occurred by chance… the number representing statistical significance (the lower the better… .05 is usually okay…).

500

Which memory model focuses on the processes of encoding, storage, and retrieval?

Information Processing

500

Which stage, for Piaget, is where egocentrism is most likely?

Preoperational

500

What are the five traits from the 5-Factor Theory?

Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism