Bio Psychology
is a temporary state where you're awake and aware but unable to move or speak, often experienced while falling asleep or waking up.
Sleep Paralysis
Processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously is???
Parallel Processing
Detailed recollections of when and where we heard about shocking events like a person’s marriage.
Flashbulb memories
You ask the children in kindergarten to look at the problem on the board and explain what the completed answer would be. The problem is: 2 + 2 = 4 and 4 – ___ = ___.
STAGE:???
Concrete Operational
Intense love that is found at the beginning of a relationship is known as
Passionate love
a bundle of about one million nerve fibers that connects the left and right hemispheres.
Corpus Callosum
Failure to notice small differences in your environment is known as...
Change blindness
The tendency to search for information that confirms our preconceptions is called
Confirmation bias
a type of learning that links a neutral stimulus - one that evokes no special response except to call attention to it
Classical Conditioning
he tendency to overestimate the influence of personal traits and underestimate the influence of the situation when explaining other people’s behavior
The fundamental attribution error
information from sense to the brain; sensory neuron??
information from the brain to the rest of the body ; motor neuron??
Afferent and Efferent
Trichromatic theory states we have specialized receptors for what three colors?
Red, blue, and green
This numerical value represents the strength and direction of a correlation, a value close to -1 indicates a strong negative correlation and a value around 0 indicates no correlation.
Correlation Coefficient
Before conditioning, food (Unconditioned Stimulus, US) produces salivation (Unconditioned Response, UR). However, the tone (neutral stimulus) does not.
What Experiment?
Pavlov’s Experiments
Tendency of people to look towards others for the cues about the right way to act in an emergency:
Information
Informational Social Influence
The drugs that block the reabsorption of neurotransmitters in the synapse during neural transmission are
SSRIs
Shapes that are close appear as a group
The Gestalt principle of proximity
Benjamin Lee Whorf believed that if a language doesn't have a way to communicate about the past, those who speak the language can't think about the past. His belief is referred to
Linguistic determinism
Which Professor cares that social interaction and cultural context are crucial for cognitive development.
Vygotsky
A group of five students and a group of three students, all roughly the same size and strength, engage in a game of tug of war. The game is equal for a long while, and a couple of players aren't putting in their full effort.
Social Loafing
Getting a headache from not having a morning coffee after substantial daily coffee consumption for several months is most likely due to???
Withdrawal
What theory states that the spinal cord has the ability to block pain signals to the brain?
The gate control theory
The tendency to remember words at the beginning of a list better than those in the middle is known as
The primacy effect
Name the Identity Status Categories??
Identity Moratorium, Identity Foreclosure, Identity Diffusion, Identity Achievement
Maggie is an excellent hockey player, and she is playing in the final hockey game of her high school career. The cheering of the fans caused her to score three goals in the game, a record for her. Explanation for her great performance is:
Social facilitation