General py
Having the first psychology lab, who was considered one of the founding fathers of early psychology (Lived in Germany)
Wilhelm Wundt
What type of reinforcement involves the removal of an aversive stimulus?
Negative reinforcement
What disorder is characterized by excessive worry occurring more days than not for at least 6 months
generalized anxiety disorder
Which lobe of the brain is associated with somatosensory information
parietal lobe
What type of statistical score tells us the number of standard deviations by which the raw score value is above or below the mean value
z score
What process of behavior modification did Pavlov come across when originally studying digestion in dogs.
classical conditioning
What variable in an experiment is the one being manipulated?
Independent variable
SSRI's
Which type of aphasia is characterized by difficulty understanding written and or spoken language
Wernicke's aphasia
A carefully designed research experiment is built around what part of the scientific method posed by the researcher that is an educated guess
hypothesis
Who was an early proponent of operant conditioning and wrote the book "Verbal Behavior"
B.F. Skinner
Which type of schedule of reinforcement is the hardest to extinguish
variable ratio
What diagnosis would you get if it looks like you have the symptoms of schizophrenia, but you've only had them for 4 months
schizophreniform disorder
What is the resting potential of a neuron
-70 mv
This scale of measurement is an interval scale with an absolute (meaningful) zero
ratio scale
In Freud's interpretation of consciousness, what layer represents one's organized, realistic self that mediates between the other two layers
ego
positive punishment
Name any personality disorder in cluster C
obsessive-compulsive, dependent, avoidant
This type of attention is shifted without associated eye movement
covert attention
What group in an experiment is not being manipulated
control gorup
Name a quality of an experimental research design that allows us to make causal inferences
control group or random assignment
According to Thorndike's law of effect, what is behavior a function of
its consequences
Name one type of drug that is classified as a stimulant
Cocaine, Ritalin, nicotine, caffeine, Adderall, ecstasy
Which specific structure in the brain is responsible for temperature regulation, appetite, and releasing hormones (also has other responsibilities, located below thalamus)
hypothalamus
This is the naturally occurring discrepancy between a sample statistic and the population parameter
sampling error