Sensation and Perception
Learning & Developmental Psychology
Cognition
Motivation, Emotion, and Personality
Clinical and Social Psychology
100
An individual’s ability to focus on a particular conversation in a noisy and crowded room is called
What is selective attention or the cocktail party effect
100
Peter keeps swearing in class, each time he does his teacher asks him to put a dime in a jar since this policy has been implemented Peter’s swearing has slowed considerably. Peter has received
What is negative punishment
100
A mental image of a spatial layout is known as
What is a cognitive map
100
The drive-reduction theory seeks to achieve
What is homeostasis
100
A therapist who invites clients to clarify their verbal and nonverbal expressions, reflects clients’ feelings, and paraphrases clients is using
What is person or client-centered therapy
200
This image of a woman or a man playing a saxophone exemplifies which Gestalt effect?
What is figure-ground
200
The most effective type of reinforcement schedule is known as
What is variable-ratio
200
Humans absorb sensory memory through these two outlets
What are iconic and echoic memory
200
This experiment, completed in 1950 was designed to study the physiological and psychological effects of famine and starvation on humans.
What is the Minnesota Starvation Experiment
200
Vic has unpredictable and repeated attacks of overwhelming anxiety that frequently leave him dizzy, nauseous, short of breath, and in tears. A psychologist is likely to view Vic’s behavior as indicative of
What is a panic disorder
300
Your balance, or vestibular sense is controlled by what in your ear
What are semicircular canals
300
A particular group of brain cells seems to provide a basis for observational learning. Researchers call these specialized cells
What are mirror neurons
300
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qYdX_3-9Q6Q
This video exemplifies which memory phenomena
What is context-dependent memory
300
“The dog makes me feel afraid and my heart pounds” exemplifies which theory of emotion
What is the Cannon-Bard theory
300
An unconscious mimicry of others is known as
What is the chameleon effect
400
A component of the opponent-process theory that the trichromatic color theory cannot explain
What is afterimage
400
Mary Ainsworth’s Strange Situation paradigm is typically used to test young children’s
What is attachment style
400
This chart exemplifies what type of forgetting? 
What is memory decay
400
The three components of Freud's theory of personality
What are the id, ego, and supergo
400
This picture exemplifies which social phenomena
What is group polarization
500
The theory which states that the brain reads pitch by monitoring the frequency of neural impulses traveling up the auditory nerve.
What is the frequency theory
500
Known as the "startle reflex," this reflex is evident in newborns until about 2 months
What is the Moro reflex
500
When a child is ~24 months they exemplify this type of speech
What is telegraphic speech
500
The defense mechanism of converting unacceptable impulses into more acceptable outlets
What is sublimation
500
Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation
What are superordinate goals