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100
Observing behavior in a natural setting.
What is naturalistic observation?
100
Response caused by a conditioned stimulus.
What is a conditioned response?
100
This memory last about 20 seconds, and processes incoming sensory memory.
What is short term memory?
100
The scientific study of the mind.
What is psychology?
100
Using ambiguous images to elicit a story from a patient, in an effort to uncover their unconscious desires, fears, and struggles.
What is the (TAT) Thematic Apperception Test?
200
This variable is manipulated or controlled by the researcher.
What is the independent variable?
200
A person who performs a behavior and serves as an example in observational learning.
What is a model?
200
The input of information into the memory system.
What is encoding?
200
Professional organization representing psychologist in the United States.
What is the American Psychological Association (APA)?
200
A projective test that employs a series of symmetrical inkblot cards that are presented to a client.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test?
300
Gathering data on the same participants over an extended period of time is this type of research design.
What is longitudinal research?
300
Taking away a pleasant stimulus to stop a behavior.
What is negative punishment?
300
Being able to identify information that you have previously learned after you see it again. Multiple choice test use this type of retrieval.
What is recognition?
300
The debate between genes and biology vs environment and culture.
What is nature vs nurture?
300
A personality assessment where person responds to ambiguous stimuli, revealing hidden feelings, impulses, and desires.
What is a projective test?
400
An unanticipated outside factor that affects both variables, and gives the impression that on causes the other.
What is a confounding variable?
400
Learning not to respond to a stimulus that repeatedly presented without change.
What is habituation?
400
Memories of events we have previously experienced.
What are episodic memories?
400
Examining your own conscious experience and attempting to break it into smaller parts.
What is introspection?
400
A personality test consisting of a series of true/ false questions in order to establish a clinical profile of an individual.
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
500
Reasoning that uses observation to draw conclusions.
What is inductive reasoning?
500
This reinforcement schedule rewards a behavior after unpredictable amounts of time have passed.
What is variable interval reinforcement schedule?
500
This model of memory states that information goes through three distinct stages before being stored into long term memories.
What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin model of memory?
500
Applying science and practical psychology to issues related to the justice system.
What is Forensic psychology?
500
A person completes sentences in order to reveal their unconscious desires, fears, and struggles?
What is the Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (RISB)?