The Brain & Mind
This part of a neuron receives messages from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
In the OCEAN model of personality, this personality trait describes how organized, dependable, and self-disciplined a person tends to be.
What is conscientiousness?
Someone assumes that a classmate is good at math simply because of the classmate's ethnic background. What is this generalized belief called?
What is a stereotype?
This approach explains mental health through the interaction of biological, psychological, and social influences.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
In an experiment testing whether background music affects test scores, this is the variable the researcher manipulates.
What is the independent variable?
The type of conditioning when a dog learns to associate the sound of a can opener with food. Eventually, the sound alone makes the dog excited.
What is classical conditioning?
A mindset when a student believes they can improve their writing through practice, feedback, and effort.
What is a growth mindset?
You laugh at a joke you don't find funny because everyone else in the group is laughing and you want to fit in. What type of social influence is this?
What is normative social influence?
A therapist helps a client identify and challenge unhelpful patterns of thinking that contribute to distress. Which therapeutic approach focuses on changing these thought patterns?
What is cognitive therapy?
A researcher defines “academic success” as the number of questions answered correctly on a 20-question quiz. What is this definition called?
What is an operational definition?
You remember how to ride a bicycle but struggle to explain the exact steps involved. What type of memory is this?
What is implicit (procedural) memory?
A child can complete a difficult task with hints from an adult but cannot yet do it alone. Vygotsky used this concept to describe the range between independent and supported performance.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
During an emergency, several people see someone who needs help, but each assumes another person will act. What social psychology effect helps explain this?
What is the bystander effect?
A person experiences repeated, unexpected episodes of intense fear accompanied by a racing heart and shortness of breath. Which disorder might explain these episodes?
What is panic disorder?
A psychologist studies how to redesign a workplace so employees can use equipment safely and efficiently. Which area of psychology is this?
What is human factors psychology?
After hearing misleading information about an accident, a witness incorporates that information into their memory of what happened. What is this effect called?
What is the misinformation effect?
The type of research when a researcher follows the same children from age 5 to age 15 to study how their problem-solving skills change.
What is longitudinal research?
In this famous experiment, Bandura demonstrated that children could learn aggressive behavior by watching an adult interact with an inflatable doll.
What is the Bobo doll experiment?
A medication that slows the reuptake of serotonin, making more of it available in the synapse.
What is an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor)?
Community members help identify a problem, design a study, collect data, and use the results to improve their own community. What research approach does this describe?
What is community-based participatory research?
A student keeps using the same strategy to solve a puzzle, even though it isn't working. What is this tendency called?
What is a mental set OR functional fixedness?
A child is born with a vulnerability to anxiety, and a major life stressor later contributes to the development of a psychological disorder. What model explains this interaction?
What is the diathesis-stress model?
The phenomenon when a committee becomes more extreme in its original position after members discuss an issue with one another.
What is group polarization?
A person receiving mental health services is understood in terms of their strengths, goals, autonomy, and ability to live a meaningful life, rather than being defined by their diagnosis. What approach to treatment is this?
What is the recovery approach to therapy?
A supervisor inspires employees with a shared vision, encourages new ways of thinking, and supports individual growth. Which leadership style is this?
What is transformational leadership?