Biopsychology
What part of the neuron receives signals from other neurons?
What are dendrites?
Who is known as the "father of psychoanalysis"?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
In this experiment, dogs learned to salivate in response to a sound after the sound was repeatedly paired with food.
What are Pavlov's classical conditioning experiments?
What developmental stage occurs from birth through approximately age 2 in Piaget's theory?
What is the sensorimotor stage?
This concept describes the physical and psychological response to demands or challenges.
What is stress?
What division of the autonomic nervous system prepares the body for action during stressful situations?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Which psychologist developed the stages of psychosocial development?
Who is Erik Erikson?
Which experiment involved a simulated prison where college students were randomly assigned to be prisoners or guards?
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
What is the understanding that an object continues to exist even when it cannot be seen?
What is object permanence?
This phenomenon occurs when a change in symptoms or outcomes is caused by expectations about a treatment rather than its active treatment effects.
What is the placebo effect?
What is the process by which a neuron fires an electrical signal down its axon?
What is action potential?
Who developed the theory of operant conditioning?
Who is B.F. Skinner?
What experiment famously demonstrated conditioned fear in a young child?
What is the Little Albert experiment?
Which attachment style is generally associated with children who use their caregiver as a secure base and are comforted when the caregiver returns?
What is secure attachment?
What concept describes a person's belief that they are capable of successfully performing a behavior?
What is self-efficacy?
What is the hypothalamus responsible for regulating? (name at least two things)
What are homeostasis, hunger, thirst, temperature, and hormonal function?
Who is associated with the development of the first intelligence test used in its modern form?
Who is Alfred Binet?
Which experiment involved participants believing they were administering increasingly severe electric shocks to another person?
What is Milgram's obedience experiment?
According to Erikson, what developmental conflict is associated with young adulthood?
What is intimacy vs. isolation?
This psychological framework is used to explain why people choose to engage or not engage in health behaviors.
What is the Health Belief Model?
During which type of refractory period can another action potential not occur?
What is the absolute refractory period?
Which psychologist developed the theory of moral development involving three levels and six stages?
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
Which study, in which participants were shown clips of a car crash, demonstrated that the language used in leading questions can distort eyewitness memory and create false recollections?
What is Loftus and Palmer's 1974 Car Crash Experiment?
Which type of intelligence involves accumulated knowledge?
What is crystallized intelligence?
Competitiveness, time urgency, and hostility describe components of this behavior pattern.
What is Type A?