History and Foundations
The science of behavior and mental processes is the definition of which field of study?
Psychology
Performing well in front of a crowd is known as:
Social Facilitation
Opiate drugs such as morphine are classified as what (they mimic neurotransmitters)?
Agonists
The name of the transparent protective coating over the front part of the eye is:
Cornea
Recurring problems in falling asleep or staying asleep are characteristics of this sleep disorder
Insomnia
Which method should a psychology researcher use if she is interested in testing wether a specific reward in a classroom situation causes students to behave better?
Experiment
A person who agrees to a small request initially is more likely to comply with a larger demand later. This describes which phenomenon?
Foot-in-the-door effect
Damage to the hippocampus would result in what?
Memory issues/loss
Neurons that fire in response to specific edges, lines, angles, and movements are called what?
Feature Detectors
Deep sleep occurs is associated with these type of brain waves
Delta waves
According to the behaviorist perspective, psychological science should be rooted in what?
Observation
Physical or verbal behavior intended to destroy or hurt is called:
Aggression
What is the brief electrical charge that travels down an axon called?
Action potential
The process by which rods and cones change electromagnetic energy into neural messages is called what?
Transduction
Sleepwalking and sleep talking are characteristics of which stage of sleep?
NREM 3
Which psychological perspective is most likely to focus on how our interpretation of a situation affects how we react to it?
Cognitive Perspective
When making the “attribution error,” we tend to overestimate the importance of (?) when judging the behaviors of others.
Dispositional Factors
Which part of the brain is responsible for combining sounds into words and arranging words into meaningful sentences?
Broca's Area
Signal detection theory is most closely associated with which perception process?
Absolute Thresholds
The hormone most closely related to one’s sleep patterns is:
Melatonin
Which perspective would be most useful when explaining how people from different countries express anger?
Social - Cultural Perspective
JFK's Bay of Pigs failure was caused in part by:
Group Think
This part of the endocrine system is responsible for the release of epinephrine and norepinephrine?
Adrenal Gland
Th e greatest density of cones exists in which part of the eye?
Fovea
This is a split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others.
Dissociation