Psych 101
Mental shortcuts that reduce seemingly complex problem solving to more simple judgments.
What are heuristics?
What is "The Flintstones"?
The sudden reappearance of a conditioned response
What is spontaneous recovery?
Physical dependence on a substance marked by tolerance, withdrawal symptoms during abstinence, or both.
What is addiction?
People's tendency to process information by looking for, or interpreting, information that is consistent with their existing beliefs
What is confirmation bias?
The founding father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
The sum of a triangle's interior angles.
What is 180 degrees?
This response was the result of the bell ringing in Pavlov's experiment, making it the unconditioned response (UCR).
What is salivating?
A personality disorder marked by a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others. Deceitful, unremorseful, manipulative, lacks anxiety and guilt.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
The scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to others.
What is Social Psychology?
_______________ was developed by Ivan Pavlov, B.F.. Skinner and others. They focused on the observable behavior of humans and other animals rather than subjective thoughts and feelings.
What is behaviorism?
Continent home to the world's largest desert.
What is Antarctica?
____________ is a type of learning process where a neutral stimulus is paired with a naturally occurring stimulus. Eventually, the neutral stimulus evokes the same response as the naturally occurring stimulus, even without the naturally occurring stimulus presenting itself.
What is classical conditioning?
Psychotic disturbance in perception in which a person hears sounds or voices although these are not real or actually present. The voices are often critical, accusatory, or demanding.
What are auditory hallucinations?
A study in which both participants and researchers are blind to the status of participants
What is modeling?
Name for the plastic or metal tube found on the ends of shoelaces.
This is a type of reinforcement where rewards are given after a number of responses or after a period of time has elapsed.
What is partial reinforcement?
A statistical method used to combine the results of a number of similar research studies.
What is meta-analysis?
This psychological school of thought states that the whole is different from or more than the sum of its parts. Ex: seeing a face instead of individual features.
What is Gestalt psychology?
These neurons carry messages from the body's tissues and sensory organs inward to the brain and spinal cord for processing
Whitney Houston sang this Dolly Parton song that made her top of the music charts in 1992.
What is "I Will Always Love You"?
Belief that knowledge comes exclusively through the senses or through experience
What is empiricism?
Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with traumatic event as evidenced by criteria (over a month)
What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
The tendency to explain our own and other people's behavior entirely in terms of personality traits and to underestimate the power of social influence.
What is fundamental attribution error (FAE)?