Science of Psychology + Biology & Behavior
Dr. Wallace is interested in how students use cell phones in classes. He observes several college classes and records how often students use their phones, which best illustrates this type of research in psychology.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
Walking into a dark movie theater is possible because these photoreceptors allow us to see in low light conditions.
What are rods?
You get an email from a local charitable organization, asking for volunteers to show up for a clean-up of the local playground. Your showing up to the clean-up is an example of this kind of behavior.
What is compliance?
Jaxon is not worried about his drinking despite the frequent blackouts. Subsequently, he has missed family gatherings and has arrived late for work. Jaxon missing family gatherings and worktime reflects this aspect of abnormal behavior.
What is dysfunction?
This disorder is characterized by unethical behavior, deceitfulness, disregard for others, and lack of remorse. Individuals that are diagnosed with this are also commonly referred to as psychopaths.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
These are the small, branchlike fibers extending from a cell body.
What are dendrites?
In Pavlov's classical conditioning experiment, meat (or meat powder, in some cases) elicits an automatic response, without learning taking place. That makes the meat (or meat powder) this in the experiment.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
In Erikson's theory of Psychosocial Development, the primary challenge in adolescence is this vs. role confusion.
What is identity?
This disorder is characterized by persistent and excessive worry about various aspects of life, often without a specific cause.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
What is the id?
A soda company conducts an experiment on the effect of caffeine on grade performance. Caffeine is this kind of variable in this experiment.
What is an independent variable?
Lori’s cat becomes alert that food is cooked when the microwave beeps, but not when the coffeemaker makes a similar sound at the end of its brew cycle. Lori’s cat is demonstrating this.
What is stimulus discrimination?
This is the tendency to better remember information that is related to oneself.
What is the self-reference effect?
Demi hears messages about the fate of the world from the people on billboards along the highway, and she keeps hearing from billboards that the end is near. This is an example of a positive symptom of schizophrenia known as this.
What is a hallucination?
This part of the brain is primarily responsible for regulating emotions and is often associated with the "fight or flight" response.
What is the amygdala?
The brain’s two hemispheres are joined by this structure.
What is the corpus callosum?
This neurotransmitter is primarily affected by cocaine, leading to it stimulating and euphoric effects.
What is dopamine?
Children with this type of attachment style will show distress when their caregiver leaves but is able to be comforted upon their return (in the Strange Situation task).
What is a secure attachment style?
Ralph is starting to feel better now and find relief from his depressive symptoms that he has been in this type of treatment that involves talking with a mental health professional to address and manage symptoms.
What is Psychotherapy or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
According to this theory of color vision, we see all colors as a result of a combination of three types of cones (red, green, and blue).
What is the trichromatic theory of color vision?
Your ability to hear and understand your professor is possible due to the auditory cortex located in this brain lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
Each time Sophie buys a coffee, the barista punches a hole in her coffee club card. When ten holes are punched, Sophie gets a free drink and a new card. Sophie is being reinforced on this kind of schedule.
What is a fixed-ratio schedule?
A car pulls out in front of you and cuts you off, you yell "you jerk" and jump to the conclusion that he/she is a careless driver. This would be called a classic example of this error.
the fundamental attribution error
Andrea experiences days or weeks even that she describes as periods of extreme highs, but comes crashing down into periods of helplessness, hopelessness and despair. Her doctor has told her that she is likely suffering from this disorder.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Your sensory memory has a capacity of this many items for about 20 seconds.
What is 5-9 (7)?