This moves a person to behave in ways to accomplish a specific goal - such as what got you to study for your test.
What is motivation?
100
This acts in conjunction with stereotypes to strengthen and maintain prejudice.
What is discrimination?
100
What you manipulate in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
100
The long, thin cells of nerve tissue along which message travel to and from the brain.
What is a neuron?
100
A researcher studies a group of people over a long period of time in this type of research.
What is longitudinal?
200
The tendency of organisms to return to or maintain a normal state.
What is homeostasis?
200
You are guilty of this if you claim your success on your psych test was due to your hard work and brilliance but you failed your math test because it was a bad test.
What is self-serving bias?
200
This type of research involves studying various age groups all at one time.
What is cross-sectional research?
200
The location where a neurotransmitter makes initial contact on a neuron.
What are the dendrites?
200
Changing your behavior to avoid rejection and gain approval, but not necessarily changing your beliefs.
What is conformity?
300
He developed the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
300
This principle of attraction can be summarized as opposites attract
What is complementarity?
300
Mean, median and mode.
What are measures of central tendency?
300
The gap that exists between individual nerve cells.
What is the synapse?
300
Both this factor and environment have an impact on intelligence.
What is heredity?
400
This theory states that biological needs drive an organism to act in certain ways until its needs are satisfied.
What is drive-reduction theory?
400
The tendency to attribute one's own behavior to outside causes but attribute teh behavior of others to internal causes.
What is fundamental attribution error?
400
It shows a relationship between two variables but does not mean causation.
What is a correlation?
400
This is when a neuron sends a signal down the axon away from the cell body.
What is action potential?
400
This type of intelligence includes factors such as self-awareness, impulse control and people skills.
What is emotional intelligence?
500
This theory could explain being really up one day and then being down in the dumps the next.
What is the opponent-process theory?
500
As seen in the Stanford Prison experiment, this is when good people can carry out horrible acts when put in a particular situation.
What is the power of the situation?
500
It is a description of the average distance of every score from the mean.
What is standard deviation?
500
Neurons send electrochemical messages - the chemical portion is in the form of these.
What are neurotransmitters?
500
This theory of motivation that behavior is motivated by the "pull" of external goals, such as rewards, money, or recognition.