Learning
Biological Psych
Cognitive Psych
Sensation and Perception
Personality
100

Define acquisition

What is the first stage of learning when a neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus continuously, and the response is established and strengthened?

100

Name three of the main types of neurotransmitters.

What is acetylcholine, dopamine, glutamate, serotonin, and norepinephrine?

100

Name two things Elizabeth Loftus is known for.

What is her research on human memory, eyewitness memory, misinformation effect, and explanations for forgetting?

100

Name the three bones that are ossicles.

What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?

100

What is a conflict between the environment one was raised in and the traits they were born with?

What is nature versus nurture?

200

Name both researchers that worked on the Little Albert study.

Who are John Watson and Rosalie Rayner?

200

Where is Broca's area located?

What is the frontal lobe?

200

What is a morpheme?

What is the smallest unit within a language within a word that can carry meaning?

200

Name three of the Gestalt laws of perceptual grouping.

What are the law of similarity, law of Pragnanz, law of proximity, law of continuity, law of closure, and the law of common region?

200

Which type of defense mechanism happens when a person satisfies an impulse with a replacement object?

What is displacement?

300

What is the difference between habituation and sensitization?

What is habituation is a decrease in a natural response to a stimulus that is repeated frequently, and sensitization is an increased reaction after an individual is repeatedly exposed to a stimulus?

300

Where does the axon join the cell body at?

What is the axon hillock?

300

Define the anchoring effect.

What is when a person attaches themselves to an opening piece of information, and when they go to make decisions, they place too much emphasis on this piece of information and don’t consider other important pieces of information?

300

What is the inner ear composed of?

What are the cochlea, vestibule, and semicircular canals?

300

Name all of the “Big 5” personality traits.

What are agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, and openness?

400

Which schedule of reinforcement is happening when there is an unpredictable number of responses that is required before an individual can be reinforced again?

What is a variable schedule of reinforcement?

400

Name all the parts of a neuron.

What is the cell body, axon, dendrites, and synapses?

400

Which person (patient) helped researchers realize that learning and memory are connected to specific brain regions?

Who is Henry Molaison?

400

Define the signal detection theory.

What is people’s performance in tasks is considerably limited by flexibility in the internal representation or stimuli because of external or internal noise?

400

Who developed the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire?

Who is Raymond Cattell?

500

Define the Law of Effect.

What is when behaviors give a positive consequence, it is more likely to reoccur any time that there is an opportunity for that behavior to occur again. It also states that any behavior that gives a negative consequence makes it less likely to reoccur any time that there is an opportunity for that behavior to occur again?

500

Name two parasympathetic responses. 

What is decreased heart rate, decreased blood sugar, and a decrease of supply of blood to various muscles?

500

Name four types of bias that are potential sources of error in judgement.

What are the overconfidence bias, hindsight bias, anchoring bias, framing bias, escalation of commitment, immediate gratification, selective perception, confirmation bias, availability bias, representation bias, randomness bias, and self-serving bias?

500

Define the difference between change blindness and inattentional blindness.

What is change blindness is when a person does not notice a very obvious change and inattentional blindness is when a person does not notice when an unexpected object is in their presence?

500

What are the four categories that a person can be assigned to in the MBTI?

What is introversion/extraversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving?