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Social Psychology
History and Perspectives
Biological Bases of Behavior
States of Consciousness
Cognition and Memory
100
  • What are the 2 ways we tend to explain others' actions?

What is disposition and situation.

100

Who is considered the father of psychology?

Who is Wilhelm Wundt.

100

Which Greek word does the term dendrite come from?

What is tree.

100

What is a reduced responsiveness to a drug prompting the user to take larger doses to achieve the same pleasurable effects previously obtained by smaller doses?

What is tolerance. 

100

What is the enhanced ability to retrieve information when in the same physical and emotional state as when it was encoded called?

What is state-dependent memory.

200
  • Which famous psychologist did a study on roles in a prison setting?

Who is Phillip Zimbardo.

200

Who was the founder of functionalism?

Who is William James.  

200
  • Before a neuron can fire (send its electrical impulse) it must be in which potential stage? 

What is resting potential. 

200
  • Which cognitive activity is most dramatically affected by alcohol use?

What is encoding memories?

200
  • What is our tendency to recall best the last (a recency effect) and first items (a primacy effect) in a list known as?

What is the serial position effect?

300
  • What is the enhancement of a group's already-existing attitudes through discussion within a group called?

What is group polarization.

300

Who founded structuralism?

Who is Edward Tichener.

300
  • The short delay after a toilet is flushed and cannot flush again until it is ready is an analogy related to which phase of neural communication?

What is refractory period. 

300
  • What are the two most commonly used stimulants in cultures around the world?

What are nicotine and caffeine?

300

What is the memory of skills and procedures?

What is implicit memory. 

400
  • What psychological term describes when we believe something to be true about ourselves or others and we behave in ways that cause this belief to come true?

What is self-fulfilling prophecy.

400
  • Which psychologist(s) were a part of the Supreme Court decision on Brown vs. Board of Education (desegregating US schools)?

Who are Kenneth Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark.

400
  • Which sense does the thalamus NOT receive messages from?

What is the sense of smell. 

400
  • What is a biological rhythms that occurs once a month or once a season?

What is an infradian rhythm?

400
  • Jennie couldn't tell her friend what color the house on the corner was, even though she had walked by it dozens of times. What is the most likely explanation for Jennie forgetting the color of the house?

What is encoding failure?

500
  • What do we call random errors in gene replication that lead to change in an individual's genetic code?

What is mutations. 

500
  • Which psychology approach focuses on how we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment?

What is Humanism.

500

Which three parts of the brain does the limbic system consist of?

What are the hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus?

500
  • Which of the following is a synthetic opioid which is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine?

What is fentanyl?

500
  • What do we call the incorporation of misleading information into one’s memory of an event?

What is the misinformation effect?