History of Psychology
The study of the mind and human behavior is simply defined as what?
What is Psychology
These are the four lobes of the brain.
What are the frontal, occipital, parietal, and temporal lobes.
This psychologists name should ring a bell with his association to classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov
A memory of a vivid, emotionally significant event is called this.
What is a flashbulb memory
Which psychologist was most famous for his Theory of Cognitive Development.
Who is Jean Piaget
This technique is used to observe people/animals in their natural environment
What is Naturalistic Observation
The visual cortex processes information in this part of the brain.
What is the Occipital Lobe
This form of conditioning takes place AFTER the behavior has occurred.
What is operant conditioning
This part of the brain deals with memories and emotions
What is the Amygdala
The "Heinz Dilemma" and the Trolley Car scenarios are used to measure this form of development.
What is Moral Development
This perspective of psychology involves studying internal mental processes about how we perceive, remember, think, solve problems, and use language
What is the Cognitive Perspective
This part of the brain coordinates muscle movement to help the body maintain balance
What is the Cerebellum
In classical conditioning, the inability to distinguish between similar stimuli is called this.
What is generalization
These are the three processes of memory
What is encoding, storage, and retrieval
Ads like a car commercial that use facts to directly convince you to buy their product use this form of persuasion.
What is the Central Route of Persuasion
This is a detailed, in-depth investigation of a single person, group, event, or community, to understand complex behaviors
What is a case study
REM Sleep is achieved during these two stages of the sleep cycle.
What are Stages 4 and 5
Suspending someone's license for drunk driving is an example of what kind of operant conditioning?
What is negative punishment
The game of Jeopardy! tests a participants knowledge using what TYPE of memory?
What is Generic/Semantic
The idea that we overemphasize personality traits (internal factors) and underestimate situational influences (external factors) when explaining other people's behavior.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE)
A psychologist who studied parenting styles and the effects on a child's behavior and socialization would most likely be using this psychological perspective.
What is the Behavioral Perspective.
Your body's 24 sleep cycle is called your
What is your Circadian Rhythm
The reappearance of a previously extinguished, or thought to be extinguished, conditioned response after a period of time is called this.
What is spontaneous recovery
This form of intelligence relies on using prior knowledge to solve new or novel problems.
What is Crystallized Intelligence
These are the five traits of the Big Five Personality Traits (think OCEAN)
What is Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism)