Intro to Psychology
Define Psychology
What is the scientific study of the mind and behavior?
Define the scientific method
What is the process that involves a prescribed series of steps designed to achieve the desired knowledge?
Describe the parts of a neuron
What are the dendrites, cell body or soma, axon, and terminal buds or buttons?
Positive Reinforcement
What is the technique used to give something the organism wants or desire to increase the behavior?
Define memory
What is the process used to encode, store, and retrieve information over different periods of time?
The empirical method of study is based on
What is the observation of phenomena?
Define the correlation coefficient
What is the number that tells us the strength of the relationship between variables?
The two main parts of the nervous system
What are the central and peripheral nervous systems?
The two components of classical conditioning that are unlearned
What are the UCS or Unconditioned Stimuli and the UCR or Unconditioned Response?
Studying over a period of time, as opposed to just cramming the information the night before.
What is distributed practice?
Describe each of the early schools of psychology
What are structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, and psychoanalysis?
Experimentation
What is the only type of research method that allows for causation?
Identify the lobes of the brain
What are the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes?
Stimulus Generalization
What is the occurrence that the organism responds to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimuli?
An example of chunking
What is taking a long list and breaking it up into smaller bits that are more memorable?
Describe each of the perspectives in psychology
What are psychodynamic, cognitive, physiological, biopsychological, humanistic, and behavioral?
An observational research study focusing on one or a few people
What is a case study?
The brain's ability to adapt and reorganize itself after a trauma or surgery
What is neuroplasticity?
The term that best describes reinforcing success approximation of a target behavior
What is shaping?
Inability to remember new information after the point of trauma
What is anterograde amnesia?
Describe the types of psychologist
What are experimental, clinical, counseling, and psychiatry?
An experiment in which neither the researcher nor the participants know what group they are in.
What is a double-blind study?
The space between two neurons
What is the synapse?
Learning is defined as
What is a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience?
The parts of the brain involved in memory
What are the amygdala, hippocampus, cerebellum, and the prefrontal cortex?