What Is/What Do?
WHich psychological method can show cause-and-effect relationships?
experiment
The thalamus routes all sensory information except...
Smell
The longer an individual is exposed to a strong odor, the less aware of the odor the individual becomes due to ....
sensory adaptation
Studies of learning have shown that animals develop an aversion for tastes associated with...
sickness
Which component of the limbic system has an essential role in the formation of new memories?
hippocampus
Correlations between the IQ scores of identical twins reared apart are lower than those of identical twins reared together. This difference is due to what?
Environment/Nurture
What lobe is damaged if an individual has sound processing issues?
temporal
The minimum intensity at which a stimulus can be detected at least 50% of the time is known as the...
absolute threshold
In operant conditioning, the concept of contingency is exemplified by an "if A, then B" relationship in which A and B, respectively, represent...
response, stimulus
Material that an individual cannot remember because it is available, but not accessible is due to what phenomenon?
TOT (Tip of the Tongue)
In an experiment, which variable refers to the outcome that is measured by the experimenter?
dependent
What lobe is damaged if an individual has problems making and carrying out decisions?
frontal
When struck by light energy, cones and rods in the retina generate neural signals that then activate the...
bipolar cells
A 2-year-old child is frightened by a small dog. A few weeks later that same child sees a cat and becomes frightened. The child's reaction is an example of what?
stimulus generalization
When Shelly first changed her log-in password, she had trouble remembering her new one and always typed in her old log-in. This memory problem is called...
proactive interference
A student who obtained a percentile rank of 80 on an achievement test. What is an accurate statement that can be made about this student's performance?
The student scored higher than 80% of all other test takers
REM sleep, generally an "active" state of sleep, is accompanied by what paradoxical characteristic?
lowered muscle tone (sleep paralysis)
What is considered to be the basic building block of the nervous system?
neurons
What is the definition of discrimination that applies to classical conditioning?
Learning to respond differently to similar stimuli
The rules of grammar are also known as rules of ...
syntax
Which of the following sets of scores has the greatest standard deviation?
5, 7, 9, 12
2, 7, 9, 12
24, 25, 26, 28
2, 7, 9, 12
Neurosurgeons cut the corpus callosum in the brain to prevent what disorder?
epilepsy
A student who strongly believes that genetic influence is the major contributor to synesthesia (sensory perception disorder) is analyzing data. The student observes many connections within some of the research but doesn't notice the differences in other research that might argue against his beliefs. The student's behavior illustrates what concept?
confirmation bias
If a monkey is conditioned to flinch at the sound of a bell that was previously paired with a puff of air to the monkey's cheek, how would a COGNITIVE psychologist interpret this conditioning?
The monkey interprets the bell as a signal that an air puff will follow.
Wolfgang Kohler considered a chimpanzee's sudden solving of a problem evidence of what type of learning?
Insight