Basic Psychology
What is the control group?
The group in an experiment that is not manipulated in order to compare results to the manipulated conditions.
What area of the brain is related to hearing?
Temporal Lobe
What is the typical male stress response?
Fight or Flight
What is Extinction?
The inhibition of a conditioned association.
What is the difference between sensation and perception?
Sensation is feeling and perception is the interpretation of that feeling.
What is the dependent variable?
The variable that is measured.
What is the relationship between males and X chromosome based disorders?
They are typically more impacted.
Name one reason sleep is important.
Describe the main finding of Bandura's Bobo Doll experiment.
What are the different types of memory?
Sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory.
What is psychology?
The study of the brain, mind, and behavior.
What are the two nervous systems?
Central and Peripheral
What is a stressor?
Something that is perceived as threatening or demanding thus inducing stress.
What are the three types of learning.
Associative, Non-associative, and observational.
Name the 5 senses and describe a minimum stimulus.
What should you base a hypothesis from?
Theories.
What are the different parts of the brain?
(Hint: there are 6)
Frontal lobe, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, cerebellum, and brain stem.
Weakened immune system, heart disease, anxiety....
Give an example of negative reinforcement.
Something that is removed in order to encourage a behavior.
Describe Top-down processing.
Name two different types of sampling used in psychology.
Random sampling and convenience sampling.
Name the stages of sleep.
Stages 1-4 and REM
What is the relationship between phobias, the little Albert experiment, and conditioning?
What is a flashbulb memory? Is it more or less accurate than a normal memory?
A memory of an emotionally salient event. Is not any more accurate than a normal memory, but is often told with more confidence.