This part of the brain perceives and processes emotion and is specifically associated with fear and anger.
What is the amygdala?
100
Basing a judgment on the ease with which examples come to mind
What is the availability heuristic?
100
This form of memory has a span of seven units plus or minus two.
What is working memory?
100
The process of organizing and interpreting incoming sensory information.
What is perception?
100
individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present.
What is the bystander effect?
200
This wraps around and insulates an axon, helping to increase the speed at which impulses travel.
What is the myelin sheath?
200
The tendency to seek out information that confirms our beliefs and ignore information that discredits them.
What is confirmation bias?
200
Give 1 example of the 3 measures of memory.
1). Recall - retrieving information you are not currently aware of that was learned at earlier time
2). Recognition - identifying items previously learned
3). Relearning - learning something more quickly when you learn it a second time
200
_______ stimuli are below our absolute threshold for conscious awareness.
What are subliminal stimuli?
200
The scientific study of human behavior/mental processes with the goal to understand, interpret, and explain.
What is psychology?
300
This connects the left and right hemispheres, helping them to communicate through neural messages.
What is the corpus callosum?
300
Judging someone based on internal characteristics (personality traits) rather than external characteristics (situational factors) is an example of...
What is the fundamental attribution error?
300
These types of memories involve automatic processing, it moves directly into storage without our awareness.
What is implicit memory?
300
Information that draws on prior experiences and expectations to interpret incoming sensory information.
What is top-down processing?
300
The adjustable opening in the center
of the iris, which controls the amount of light
entering the eye.
What is the pupil?
400
The lobe that houses the motor cortex, personality, inhibitions, planning, and processing new memories.
What is the frontal lobe?
400
Give three examples of how we develop prejudice.
What are: categorization, ingroup biases and outgroup homogeneity, ultimate attribution error, enhance our own self-esteem, social learning?
400
After encoding information into working memory/short term memory, the information moves here.
What is long term memory?
400
In a psychology experiment, Barry reports whether or not he hears anything when varying frequencies are emitted. The sounds Barry perceives 50 percent of the time is his ___________
What is absolute threshold?
400
In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, our most basic needs are physiological, including needing food and water, just above these needs is the need for ________.
What is safety?
500
This hemisphere is good at making quick, exact, interpretations of language.
What is the left hemisphere?
500
Give two reasons why people obey authority.
What are power/hierarchy differences, fear of negative consequences, to be rewarded, believe authority is legitimate, the power of the situation
500
Describe the three stages of memory.
1. Encode - processing information into the memory system
a). record as sensory memory, process into working/STM
2. Store - retaining encoded information
3. Retrieve - getting information out of memory "storage"