Psychological Foundations
Who is Charles Darwin?
What is the inability to see a problem from a new perspective?
This is known as fixation.
What part of the eye senses light and dark changes?
The rods sense light and dark changes.
What is the definition of learning?
The accusation of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.
The term that refers to how one performs better when around other people.
This is social facilitation.
Who wrote the first psychology textbook?
William James wrote the first psychology textbook.
What could a psychological that yields consistent results?
A test that is reliable.
What is the sensation of smell called?
It is called olfaction.
What is a mental representation of the layout of one's environment?
This is called a cognitive map.
What theory best explains why we work to reduce the discomfort caused by two of our inconsistent thoughts?
The Cognitive Dissonance Theory.
From which perspective might a psychologist study which parts of the brain activate from certain stimuli?
They would study from the biological perspective.
The researcher that studied reconstructive memory.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
Which of the following does not belong:cochlea,hammer,eardrum,and fovea
The fovea does not belong because it is part of the eye.
What is the reappearance, after a pause, of a extinguished conditioned response?
This is called spontaneous recovery.
Classic studies of obedience indicate that about _________ of the participants were willing to administer what they believed to be 450-volt shocks to other humans?
Two-thirds is the correct answer.
What perspective of psychology would study how the encoding,storing,and retrieval of information affect our thoughts?
The cognitive perspective would study this.
An infant sees a horse for the first time and shouts "Doggy!"
This is an example of what?
This is an example of overregularization.
Who proposed the filter theory of selective attention?
Donald Broadbent proposed this theory.
What is the name of the researcher who studied the phenomenon of classical conditioning?
Ivan Pavlov studied this phenomenon.
Which of the following is most likely to occur when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives?
What branch of psychology studies the measurement of our abilities, attitudes, and traits?
These are all studied by psychometrics.
Who devised the Treyarch Theory of Intelligence?
Robert Sternberg devised this theory.
What are the nerve cells called that respond to specific details of a stimuli?
These are called feature detectors.
Thorndike's principle that behaviors followed by favorable consequence become more likely is known as what?
This is known as the law law effect.
Over time, which of the following is typically true of the relationship between passionate love and companionate love?
Passionate love decreases while companionate love increases.