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What is psychology
Fascinating human memory
Intelligence
Neuroscience and Behavior
Learning
100
To describe, explain, predict, influence behavior and mental processes.
What are the goals of psychology?
100
Temporarily stores information for about 20 seconds.
What is short-term memory?
100
A measure of general intelligence derived by comparing an individual's score with the scores of others in the same age group.
What is IQ?
100
A special cell in Nervous System that communicates in electrical and chemical form.
What is neuron?
100
The process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses.
What is conditioning?
200
Personality theory and form of psychotherapy that emphisize the role of unconscious factors in personality and behavior.
What is psychoanalysis?
200
Nondeclarative memory: memory without concsious recall.
What is implicit memory?
200
Test measures what it is purported to measure.
What is validity?
200
Type of neuron that signals muscles to contract or relax.
What is motor neuron?
200
The natural stimulus that reflexively elicits a response without the need for prior learning.
What is unconditioned stimulus?
300
The belief that one's own culture or ethnic group is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
300
Backward acting amnesia that disrupts process of memory consolidation.
What is retrograde amnesia?
300
Can lower test scores in people who are aware that they belong to negatively viewed groups.
What is stereotype threat?
300
State in which neuron is prepared to activate and communicate its message if it receives sufficient stimulation
What is resting potential?
300
Learning associations between behavior and environmental consequence.
What is operant conditioning?
400
The systematic observation and recording of behaviors as they occur in their natural setting.
What is naturalistic observation?
400
The tendency to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than items in the middle.
What is serial position effect?
400
Developed the first widely accepted intelligence test and originated the idea of Mental Age.
What is Alfred Binet?
400
Controls voluntary muscles and transmits sensory information to the CNS.
What is somatic nervous system?
400
The reappearance of a previosly extinguished conditioned response after a period of time without exposure to the conditioned stimulus.
What is spontaneous recovery?
500
The factor that is observed and measured for change in an experiment.
What is dependent variable?
500
Motivated forgetting that occurs consciously; a deliberate attempt to not think about and remember specific information.
What is suppression?
500
Used to specifically measure adult intelligence, no mental age idea, but mostly using statistics.
What is Wechsler IQ tests?
500
Primary receiving area for visual information.
What is occipital lobe?
500
Passivity and expectation of failure due to being exposed to things that seem inescapable and beyond our control.
What is learned helplessness?