Biology
What two things make up the nervous system?
What is The central Nervous system and the peripheral nervous system
What is iconic memory?
What is the visual sensory memory. Visual short-term memory and visual-long term memory.
This man developed the first
intelligence test to predict
school achievement in French
Children.
Who is Alfred Binet.
Fritz Heider noted that paople
usually attribute other’s
behavior either to their internal
dispositions or to their external
situations.
What is the fundamental attribution theory.
This type of research is
conducted on one person,
yielding results that cannot be
generalized to the larger
population.
What is experimental research
The relatively permanent change
in an organism’s behavior due to
experience.
What is learning.
This is complex behavior that is
rigidly patterned throughout a
species and is unlearned
What is an instinct
The most widely researched and
clinically used of all personality
tests.
What is the MMPI.
The psychological disorders
characterized by distressing,
persistent anxiety, or
maladaptive behaviors that
reduce anxiety.
What are anxiety disorders
Cells in the cortical areas that respond to more complex patterns.
What are super cell clusters
The science of behavior and mental processes is the definition of which field of study
What is psychology
The tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions.
What is functional fixedness
This causes "bad" or "uncomfortable" thoughts.
What is unexpected behavior
The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects is called
The two divisions of the peripheral nervous system are
What are the Somatic nervous system and the Autonomic nervous system
Attributing an event to the wrong source
What is source amnesia.
This is described as the ability
to produce novel and valuable
ideas.
This test had individual
responses about the length of
lines.
What is the ASCH conformity test
This is the group used as a
comparison for the experimental
group.
What is the control group.
This is the learned ability to
distinguish between a
conditioned stimulus and other
stimuli that do not signal an
unconditioned stimulus.
What is discrimination
This is a positive or negative
environmental stimulus that
motivates behavior.
What is incentive.
Giving priority to the
goals of one’s group and
defining ones identity
accordingly.
What is collectivism
which disorder is most effectively treated with electroconvulsive therapy?
what is major depression
Sensing the position and movement of individual body parts is an example of which sense?
What is the vestibular sense
A habitual drinker who says she drinks with her friends “just to be sociable” best illustrates
What is rationalization
What does the" magical number seven plus or minus two refer to?
What is the capacity of short-term memory
This is the tendency of people or animals to behave differently from normal when they know they are being observed
What is the observer effect
According to Lawrence Kohlberg, what stage of moral development is exhibited when actions are judged "right" because they flow from basic ethical principles?
What is post-conventional
At the junction between two neurons a BLANK causes neuron A to release a chemical neurotransmitter
What is an action potential
Our short term memory capacity
is about _____ chunks of
information.
What is 7. Most adults can store between 5-9 items in their short-term memory
Intelligence is a _____
constructed concept.
What is a socially constructed concept
Tendency for a person to be less
likely to give aid if other people
are present
Experimentation is the only
research that can conclude this
type of relationship between two
variables.
What is the correlation
A stimulus that gains its
reinforcing power through its
association with a primary
reinforcer.
What is a secondary reinforcer
A desire to perform a
behavior due to
promised rewards or
threats of punishment.
What is extrinsic motivation
Believed that if ones basic needs
are fulfilled, then people will
strive to actualize to their
highest potential.
Who is Maslow
Ravi brushes his teeth 18 times a day. Each time, he uses exactly 83 strokes up and 83 strokes down. After he eats, he must brush twice with two different brands of toothpaste. Ravi suffers from
What is OCD
Neurons that fire in response to specific edges, lines, angles & movements are called what?
What are feature detectors
According to the behaviorist perspective, psychological science should be rooted in what?
What is observation
The inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective is called what
What is fixation
Through which process, behaviorists treat disturbed people by teaching them acceptable behavior patterns and reinforcing desired behavior by rewards and punishments?
What is conditioning
According to Mary Ainsworth's research on attachment what would a child need most to become "securely attached"?
What is Consistent responsive caregivers
Which nervous system controls the glands and the muscles of our internal organs?
The Autonomic nervous system
What is priming?
What is a technique in which the introduction of one stimulus influences how people respond to a subsequent stimulus
High scoring people are more
likely to attain high levels of
___ and ____.
What are education and income.
What is Group Polarization?
What is the tendency for a group to make decision that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members.
What is applied research?
What is the field that focuses on solving problems, curing illnesses, and applying knowledge to real-world situations
Classical and operant conditioning are based on the principles of which psychological perspective?
What is behavioral psychology?
The perception by an individual that the amount of a desired resource (e.g., money, social status) he or she has is less than some comparison standard
What is relative deprivation
What is self-actualization
Which kind of drug is most closely associated with increasing the availability of norepinephrine or serotonin?
Frequency theory relates to which element of the hearing process
What is the rate at which the basilar membrane vibrates.
Which perspective would be most useful when explaining how people from different countries express anger?
What is Social-culture
When instances come readily to mind, we often presume such events are common. What is the term for this phenomenon?
What is availability heuristic
Who is considered the father of behavioral psychology?
Who is John B. Watson
Temperament refers to what aspect of an infants development?
What is emotional reactivity
These are the 3 types of neurons that information travels through
What are Sensory, Motor, and interneurons
What is the misinformation effect?
What is the tendency for post-event information to interfere with the memory of the original event.
A statistical procedure that
identifies clusters of related
items on a test; used to identify
different dimensions of
performance that underlie ones
total score.
What is Factor analysis
We accept others’ opinions
about reality due to this type of
social influence.
What is informational social influence.
This is the gap between the lowest and highest scores
What is the range.
which process is the best term for explaining how we learn languages
What is modeling?
This contains important hunger controls.
What is the hypothalamus
According to Sigmund Freud, which of the following defense mechanisms buries threatening or upsetting events in the unconscious?
What is repression
A person who has an intense phobia of heights is forced to spend an afternoon on the observation deck of a skyscraper. This is a therapy method called
What is flooding
Our diminished sensitivity to constant or routine odors, sounds, and touches, to focus our attention on information changes in stimulation.
What is sensory adaptation?
The debate about the relative contributions of biology and experience to human development is most often referred to as what?
What is the nature vs nurture theory
Producing valuable and novel ideas is known as
What is creativity
What is a stimulus?
What is any object or event that elicits a sensory or behavioral response in an organism.
According to Erickson's theory of development, the crisis that needs resolution for adolescents involves the search for what?
What is identity?