Brain
Learning
People
Personality
Miscellaneous
100
corpus callosum
What is the structure that connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain?
100
Rehearsal
What is the process of repetitively verbalizing or thinking about information?
100
B.F. Skinner
What is the name of the psychologist that is known for his work with rats and operant conditioning?
100
1. openness 2. conscientiousness 3. extroversion 4. agreeableness 5. neuroticism
What are the five categories of the five-factor model of personality?
100
chunk
What is a group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit?
200
Hypothalamus
What is the structure found in the forebrain that is responsible for biological needs?
200
Classical Conditioning
What is the name of the type of experiment Pavlov did on his dogs?
200
Alfred Binet
What psychologist is well known for his development of the first used intelligence test?
200
Type A personalities are described as competitive, compulsive, and driven. - Type B personalities are described as more laid-back and relaxed.
What is the difference between Type A and Type B personality?
200
Episodic Memory Sytem
What is the memory system that is made up of chronological or temporary dated recollections of personal experiences?
300
the hypothalamus, amygdala, and hippocampus.
What makes up the limbic system?
300
positive punishment
What is adding an unpleasant stimulus to decrease a behavior called?
300
Leon Festinger
What psychologist is known for his theory of cognitive dissonance?
300
id, ego and superego
What are the three systems of Freud's theory of personality?
300
1. germinal 2. embryonic 3. fetal
What are the three phases of the prenatal period?
400
verbal processing, language, speech, reading, and writing.
What does the left hemisphere of the brain deal with?
400
fixed interval
When someone is paid by the hour they are on what tpe fo reinforcement schedule?
400
Carl Jung
Who founded the school of thought known as anayltical psychology?
400
Narcissistic
Tony Stark from Iron Man is an example of what type of personality disorder?
400
insomnia
What is the most common sleep disorder?
500
sympathetic
What nervous system controls the bodies responses to emergencies, the fight or flight response?
500
stimulus generalization
In John Watson's experiment, Little Albert was conditioned to fear a white rat, but he also showed a fear of other furry, white objects. This is an example of
500
Philip Zimbardo
Who is the psychologist that conducted a famous experiment during the early 1970s known as the Stanford Prison Experiment?
500
high importance placed on group satisfaction The group as a whole is more important than the individual, and individuals in these cultures work to make their behaviors suit the group as a whole.
What traits characterize a collectivistic culture?
500
It s a child's understanding that objects continue to exist even though they cannot be seen or heard and develops in the sensorimotor stage.
What is object permanence and in what stage does it develop?