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Psychology Research
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A memory strategy that involves organizing items into manageable units.
What is chunking?
100
A number originally defined as the ratio between chronological age and mental age times 100.
What is Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
100
A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned.
What is an instinct
100
research has shown that memories can easily be altered by suggestion, other input, or bias. This is called
What is unreliable or false memory
100
This 2005 documentary film follows the instinctual yearly migration of Emperor penguins into the hostile arctic regions
What is March of the Penguins
200
A seconds-long retention of up to about seven items
What is short-term memory
200
The process of defining meaningful scores by comparison with a pretested group.
What is standardization
200
A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.
What is an incentive
200
This normal distribution curve is a mathematically well-defined concept used in statistics and in science generally.
What is the bell curve
200
This confection typically consists of sugar or corn syrup, water, gelatin that has been softened in hot water, dextrose, flavourings, and sometimes colouring, whipped to a spongy consistency
What is a marshmallow
300
This is a clear memory of an emotionally significant event.
What is flashbulb memory
300
The ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions.
What is emotional intelligence
300
Part of the brain that regulates hunger. When damaged, results in appetite disorders (as in animal research), also involved in Prader-Willi Syndrome
What is the hypothalamus
300
Research has shown that individuals who participate in organized education (including starting school and not dropping out of high school) score higher on intelligence test. This is called
What is the schooling effect
300
Producing films since 1995, this California animation studio has earned twenty-six Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and three Grammys, and its films have made over $6.3 billion worldwide
What is Pixar
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This is the tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better retention than is achieved by massed study or practice (ie cramming)
What is the spacing effect
400
Theory that defines intelligence in a broad way, having skills/intelligences in 8 separate areas.
What is multiple intelligences
400
The theory that physiological need creates a state that drives organisms to certain behavior.
What is drive-reduction theory?
400
Research has shown that high achievement motivation individuals are more likely to
What is set reasonable challenging goals for themselves
400
Locally called "everything but the oink" or made with "everything but the squeal" this food is typically made of hog offal, such as the head, heart, liver, and other scraps, which are boiled with any bones attached (often the entire head), to make a broth then made into a solid by combining flour and spices.
What is scrapple
500
The memory principle that additional rehearsal after material is already learned greatly increases long-term retention.
What is overlearning?
500
American psychologist who promoted the widespread use of IQ testing for WWI recruits and immigrants, and espoused the eugenics movement.
Who was Lewis Terman
500
The psychologist who originated the hierarchy of human needs
Who is Abraham Maslow
500
Research by Dr. Walter Mischel at Stanford showed that among his research group, those individuals with the highest SAT scores, who had met more of their life goals and were more successful in their marriages were those who
What is could wait 15 minutes as four year olds for extra marshmallows, rather than immediately taking one marshmallow.
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Fueled by instinct alone, monarch butterflies migrate every Fall to their Winter environment consisting of only twelve mountaintops in this country
What is Mexico