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which part of the cortex continues to develop throughout adolescence and early adulthood and is responsible for decision making and planning?
frontal lobe
100
What is learning that is not immediately expressed in performance is called...
latent learning
100
sleep spindles indicate which stage of non- Rem sleep...
non- REM stage 2
100
The typically negative beliefs and attitudes an individual has toward others based on their membership to a particular group is the basis of A. stereotyping. B. prejudice. C. social loafing. D. discrimination.
B. prejudice
100
Coping mechanism to disconnect from a stressful or traumatic situation?
Dissociation
200
Dr. pears conducted an experiment investigating the effects of caffine on short-term memory. She used placebos in the control group to eliminate the placebo effect, but she knew which group the subjects were in a she administered the memory test. In order to eliminate the experimenter effect, Dr. pears should have conducted which type of experiment?
double blind experiment
200
which type of memories include skills such as typing and tying one's shoes...
procedural memories
200
According to the stress-vulnerability explanation of depression...
interactions between upsetting events and individual vulnerability lead to depression
200
When people in the United States are trying to find reasons for someone else's behavior, they tend to: A. leap to the attribution that people's behaviors correspond to the context. B. overestimate personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation. C. explore the personality traits and the environmental constraints to derive an explanation. D. ignore dispositional attributions in favor of situational attributions.
B. Overestimate personality traits and underestimate the influence of the situation
200
treatment for mental disorders in which a person with a problem takes with a psychological professional
Psychotherapy
300
which modern psychological perspective focuses on bodily events and their effect on their behavior, feelings, and thoughts.
Biological perspective
300
in classical condition, when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus... blank occurs
extinction
300
A theory is...
an organized system of assumptions and principles that attempts to explain some phenomenon.
300
________ theory emphasizes that humans are positively motivated and progress toward higher levels of functioning. A. Trait B. Psychoanalytic C. Humanistic D. Social learning
C. Humanistic
300
treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively
Therapy
400
Dr. olson wants to know whether or not the first years of life are critical for acquiring language. She decides to study children who have been deprived of human language. The appropriate method to use to explore this issue would be a...
Case study
400
a PET scan...
records biochemical changes in the brain with the use of radioactive glucose.
400
An advantage of observational studies is that...
They can provide accurate descriptions of behavior.
400
What is hypersensitive to criticism or rejection.
Avoidant
400
emphasize the importance of the choice made by individuals and the potential to change one's behavior
humanistic
500
____ is considered the founder of psychology because he was the first person to announce that he intended to make psychology a science.
Wilhelm Wundt
500
which of the following is not part of the peripheral nervous system? A. latent learning B. somatic system C. Autonomic system
A. latent learning
500
which of the following statements about correlation is true? A. correlations close to +1 or -1 are strong, while correlations close to 0 are weak B. correlations aren't used in psychology C. correlations close to 0 are only strong
A.
500
Formerly called multiple personality disorder. Mental disorder that involve the breakdown of memory.
Dissociative identity disorder.
500
surgery performed on brain tissue to relieve or control severe psychological disorders
psychosurgery