What is Psychology?
Biology and Psychology
Sensation and Perception
Consciousness
Learning & Memory
100
One of the advantages of __________ is that by distributing questionnaires and analyzing answers with a computer, psychologists can study many thousands of people at a time.
What is a survey?
100
Down syndrome is caused by _______.
What is an extra chromosome on the 21st pair?
100
_____ is the new basic taste that was recently added to the primary taste qualities.
What is umami?
100
__________ is the simplified form of meditation brought to the United States by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and is used as a method for coping with stress.
What is transcendental meditation?
100
Explicit memory is...
What is information that is clearly stated?
200
Ned is feeling stressed because of his workload at the office. He is also experiencing insomnia with rapid weight loss. Ned's condition is an example of a __________ correlation.
What is a negative correlation?
200
What is the electrical impulse that provides the basis for the conduction of a neural impulse along an axon of a neuron? In other words, when it "shoots" off?
What is an action potential?
200
Frank was temporarily blinded by the flash from the camera. The perception of being “blind” is best explained by an __________.
What is an afterimage?
200
Some LSD users have ________, which are distorted perceptions of hallucinations that mimic the LSD "trip" but occurs days, weeks, or longer after usage.
What are flashbacks?
200
An adaptive trait that motivates organisms to avoid harmful foods is a __________.
What is a taste aversion?
300
Structuralists tended to ask, "What are the pieces that make up thinking and experience?" In contrast, __________ tended to ask, "How do behavior and mental processes help people adapt to the requirements of their lives?"
Who are functionalists?
300
__________ is produced largely by neurons in the brain stem and acts both as a neurotransmitter and as a hormone.
What is norepinephrine?
300
What is your wager?
The axon bundle that transmits neural impulses from the organ of Corti to the brain is known as the __________.
300
It seems like every day you experience a decrease in your mental alertness around 2 or 3 o'clock each afternoon. This daily occurrence in your mental alertness is an example of:
What is a circadian rhythm?
300
Sarah was required to learn a list of 20 numbers in order. Initially, she took 15 repetitions to learn the list. After five days, she had forgotten the list of numbers and had to re-learn it. This time, she only took eight tries to re-learn the numbers. The difference between the number of repetitions she originally took to learn the numbers and the number of repetitions she took to re-learn the numbers is known as _________.
What is savings?
400
_________ Is the founder of behaviorism.
Who is John B. Watson?
400
Jakob is always too warm and perspires frequently. Which of the following brain structures is most responsible for him being too warm?
What is the hypothalamus?
400
__________refers to the tendency to perceive a broken figure as being complete or whole.
What is the principle of closure?
400
The average amount of time it takes to complete each cycle through the stages of NREM sleep and REM sleep lasts about ________.
What is 90 minutes?
400
_______________________ was founded by George Miller in 1956 and establishes evidence for the capacity of short-term memory
What is The Magical Number 7, plus or minus 2?
500
A source of bias that may occur in research findings when participants are allowed to choose for themselves a certain treatment in a scientific study is called a ________.
What is a selection factor?
500
Esteban finds that he is often very anxious and not at ease. What neurotransmitter would help him the most?
What is gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)?
500
When you are exposing individuals to progressively stronger stimuli until the minimum stimuli the person can detect is found, you are finding the ________.
What is the absolute threshold?
500
This brain structure contains the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), stimulating the pineal gland to decrease the output of melatonin in the human body.
What is the hypothalamus?
500
Every morning, Jaclyn’s parents watch for the school bus to arrive. They repeatedly are looking out the window to see if the bus has arrived. This schedule is a __________.
What is variable-interval schedule?