Intro to Psych
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
This structure within the neuron is responsible for transmitting signals to other nearby neurons.
What is an axon?
The tendency for infants to get bored with repeated stimuli, which can be used to help researchers learn about infant perception, memory, and cognition.
What is habituation?
The process of adding a reward or desired stimulus with the intention of increasing the frequency of a behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
The phenomenon in which the greater the number of people present, the less likely people are to help a person in distress or respond to emergencies.
What is the bystander effect?
The father of psychological science, known for developing the first psychology lab and for being the first person to consider psychology as a science.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This part of the cortex is largely responsible for processing visual information.
What are the occipital lobes?
The term referring to a developing child's ability to understand that others have thoughts, feelings, and perspectives that are different from the child's.
What is theory of mind?
The term used for any consequence which decreases the frequency of a behavior.
What is a punishment?
This refers to our tendency to over-emphasize internal/personal factors and under-emphasize external/situational factors when assessing another's behavior.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
This brain imaging technique uses magnets to capture several images of the brain in succession, allowing doctors to see blood flow and brain function/dysfunction.
What is fMRI?
Any substance ingested by a pregnant woman which may produce physical or functional defects in the developing child.
What is a teratogen?
The following scenario describes THIS form of conditioning:
A third grade class was very well behaved, so the teacher decided to cancel the homework assignment planned for the weekend.
What is negative reinforcement?
The phenomenon in which one conforms to a group's behaviors and norms due to a desire to gain group approval and avoid group disapproval.
What is normative social influence?
This psychological perspective studies the ways in which we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
What is cognitive psychology?
Neuroscience experienced a boom in research partially due to the experience of this man, who after having a rail spike travel through his brain, lived a surprisingly normal life.
Who is Phineas Gage?
Piaget's final developmental stage is one in which children can think logically about abstract concepts and plan for the future.
What is the formal operational stage?
A form of conditioning which involves training voluntary behaviors; the subject learns to associate certain actions with rewards or consequences.
What is operant conditioning?
The act of following a group's standards, norms, or behavior as a result of unspoken group pressure, either real or imagined.
What is conformity?
A researcher is studying the effects of temperature on student motivation. She measures how motivated students feel on days with varying temperatures to see if hotter weather makes students feel less motivated. The dependent variable is THIS.
What is student motivation?
This part of the brain is at the back of the frontal lobe and is responsible for producing voluntary movement.
What is the motor cortex?
In this stage of cognitive development, the child is working to overcome egocentrism and develop a theory of mind.
What is the preoperational stage?
What are the spam calls?
A popular news website offers an annual subscription plan for $30/month. Most readers do not want to pay this much and move their mouse cursor to close out of the page. As their cursor moves to the top of the screen, a message pops up saying, "Wait! For the next 20 minutes, we are offering one year of subscription at only $15/month! That's half off - act now!" Many customers do decide to purchase a subscription they were not planning to purchase.
What is the door-in-the-face effect?