Developmental Psych
What lobe of the brain is responsible for processing auditory information?
Temporal lobe
True or false? There are only two possible limbic responses our brain is capable of producing when exposed to a stressor.
FALSE. Fight, flight, & freeze
True or false? Being in a good mood can make us more vulnerable to persuasion.
True!
Which division of the nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord?
Central Nervous System (CNS)
What type of memory holds 4-7 items for 15-30 seconds?
Short-term memory
What term is used to describe a group of people who were born within a unique period of history?
Cohort
What is the term used for the condition in which an individual is experiencing two or more separate disorders simultaneously?
Comorbidity
What is the name for a mental shortcut or an approximate rule or strategy for solving a problem?
Heuristic
What do you call the gap between neurons where communication occurs?
Synapse
What is the process of conversion of environmental energy into neural signals called?
Transduction
In what type of research design will developmental psychologists study people of different ages at the same time?
Cross-sectional design
What state of mind is characterized by loss of touch with reality, hallucinations, and delusions?
Psychosis
What is the tendency for actors to attribute their own actions to situational factors, whereas observers tend to attribute the same actions to stable personality dispositions of the actors?
Actor-observer bias
What is the name of the phenomenon which states that action potentials either happen or they don’t?
All-or-none phenomenon
What is the speech-like memory code important for reading and thinking?
Acoustic representations
What is the parenting style where the parent makes firm decisions, sets limits, uses reasoning, explain things, and encourages independence?
Authoritative
What type of psychological treatment involves assisting to resolve an individual’s maladaptive schemas (thoughts) and illogical thinking?
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
What is the phenomenon of a cohesive group’s opinions overriding an individual’s opposing arguments?
Groupthink
A molecule that binds to another molecule (receptor) is called a …
Ligand
What is the failure to perceive an object or event due to the direction of attention elsewhere called?
Inattentional Blindness
What is the reflex that occurs when a neonate's cheek is stroked and it turns in the direction of the touch known as?
Rooting reflex
The following odd-eccentric personality disorders belong to which cluster: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal?
Cluster A
What phenomenon is described by this statement: although a high degree of competence makes us appear more attractive, some evidence of fallibility increases our attractiveness more?
Pratfall effect
Name the 4 sensorimotor divisions of the cerebral cortex.
Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe
According to this effect there is better memory for things that come earlier in a list that is to be memorized.
Primacy effect