1 - The mathematical average, or ....., is found by dividing the sum of the scores by the number of scores.
Mean
2 - the maximum duration of our sensory memory is thought to be
2 seconds
3 - The MCAT is a test created to predict the likelihood of a person to be successful in medical school? It is an example of a(n)
aptitude test
4 - The measure of a relationship between two sets of variables or data:
Correlation
5 - The measure of how much scores vary around the mean is known as the
Standard deviation
6 - The Measurement of Adult Intelligence" was written by _________________?
Wechsler
7 - The measurement without instruments is called a/an
Observation
8 - The medulla is to the control of ..... as the cerebellum is to the control of .....
breathing; walking
9 - The Medulla Oblongata
maintains involuntary body functions
10 - The medulla oblongata, pons, midbrain and diencephalon are all parts of the ____________?
brainstem
11 - The Medulla Obolongata controls our .....
Blood Pressure
12 - The meeting time for this course is.....
8:15-9:40
13 - The members of the population who have been chosen to take part in the research
Sample
14 - The memory of learning how to do a skill like riding a bike, and how it is hard to explain but easy to remember and do
Implicit Memory
15 - The memory store that has a decay time of about 250 milliseconds is __________________?
iconic memory
16 - The memory that holds information for the shortest period of time is known as __________________?
sensory memory
17 - The memory that last between 30 seconds and a few days
Short-term memory
18 - The memory that last for many years
Long-term memory
19 - The mental activity associating with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
Cognition
20 - the mental activity that is involved in the understanding, processing, and communicating of info
concepts
21 - The mental manifestations of anxiety, or the specific thought processes that occur during anxiety, such as concern or worry.
Cognitive Anxiety
22 - The mental predisposition to perceive one image but not the other is
Perceptual set
23 - The mental processes involved in learning
cognitive learning
24 - The mental processing of retrieval of information from memory. A fill in the blank test is a good example.
recall
25 - THE MENTAL STATUS EXAM
All of the above
26 - The mental stress or discomfort caused ban individual experiencing inconsistency between thoughts and actions.
Cognitive Dissonance
27 - The method by which the sensations experienced at any given moment are interpreted and organized in some meaningful fashion.
perception
28 - The method of ..... involves exposing a person to a harmless stimulus until he or she is no longer afraid of it.
Flooding
29 - The method of ...../..... approach involved 2 people acting the way they wanted the parrot to act
model/rival
30 - The method of ‘Field Observation’ is always considered as_____________?
Objective
31 - The method of assessment for assessment 1 is.....
Poster
32 - The method of learning that stresses examining one's own thoughts and feelings is
introspection
33 - The method of Loci is an example of _________________?
a mnemonic
34 - The method of self-observation to report thoughts and feelings
introspection
35 - The method of study compares children at various ages simultaneously. It is the ____________ method?
cross-sectional
36 - The method used was:
lab experiment
37 - The middle ear (between the tympanic membrane and the cochlea) contains the ossicles. What are ossicles?
Three smallest bones in the body
38 - The middle point when the data is arranged in ascending order is.....
median
39 - The middle score in a distribution, half scores are above it and half are below it, is known as what?
Median
40 - the middle score in a distribution; half the scores are above it and half are below it
Median
41 - The Milgram Experiment was a ..... blind experiment
single
42 - The Milgram experiment was carried out.....
after WW II
43 - The Mills v. District of Columbia Board of Education (1972) court case was important in the history of special education law because it
maintained the schools must pay for an appropriate education for individuals with disabilities if the school cannot provide one
44 - The mind and body are completely separate and do not impact each other
Dualism
45 - The mind can be viewed as an information processing system.
Cognitive
46 - THE MIND IS A
PHYSICAL NON THINKING THING
47 - the mind is separable from the body and continues after the body dies. Knowledge is innate.
Socrates and Plato
48 - The mind-body problem is best represented by what question?
Is the mind a separate entity from the brain and body?
49 - The minimum amount of chemical stimulation that an individual's taste buds can detect is known as their:
absolute threshold for taste.
50 - The minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time is called the
absolute threshold.
51 - The minimum amount of stimulus energy needed for an observer to detect a stimulus
absolute threshold
52 - The Minnesota MultiphasicPersonality Inventory is published.
1942
53 - The misinformation effect provides evidence that memory
may be reconstructed during recall according to how questions are framed.
54 - The MMPI has over 550 statements to mark as true, false, or cannot say. How do psychologists ensure the client is not lying?
Too many true answers to key statements will mark the test as invalid.
55 - The mobilization for "fight or flight" occurs during the ..... stage.
alarm
56 - The mode is:
The most frequently occurring number
57 - The modern biological perspective of psychology studies
the effects of of biological factors on our behavior
58 - The modern psychodynamic perspective is based on the work of whom?
Freud
59 - The modern psycholinguistic theory was developed by __________?
Chomsky
60 - The module defines groupthink as.....
Only B and C
61 - The more modern form of psychoanalysis is called the .....perspective.
Psychodynamic
62 - The more time people spend using social media, the less they read books. What is the Independent variable?
Time on Social Media
63 - The more track athletes practice, the less time it takes them to finish the race.
Negative correlation
64 - The more we are exposed to something, the more we tend to like it
mere exposure effect
65 - The more years of schooling you have a higher income.
Positive Correlation
66 - The most adaptive behaviors are the ones most likely to grow stronger and become habitual.
William James
67 - The most basic components of Maslows theory is
physiological
68 - The most common effortful processing technique where information is repeated.
rehearsal
69 - The most common engaging processing technique where information is repeated.
rehearsal
70 - The most common type of psychologist is:
clinical
71 - The most common way of studying human cognitive processing is to evaluate ____________________?
reaction time
72 - The most commonly used individual intelligence test is
Wechsler Intelligence Scales
73 - The most commonly used measure of a central tendency is the .....
Mean
74 - The most commonly used measure of central tendency is the
mean.
75 - The most complex part of the human brain is the:
cerebrum
76 - The most complex unit of thought
rule
77 - The most complex, best developed and most important sense for humans and other highly mobile creatures.
Vision
78 - The most desirable skill of teacher is to
Make the students understand what the teacher says
79 - The most distinctive aspect of Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis is the belief that the conscious mind is influenced by ___________?
unconscious thought processes
80 - The most effective Time relations in classical conditioning
Delayed conditioning
81 - The most foolproof way of testing the true effectiveness of a newly introduced method of psychological therapy is by means of ___________?
experimental research
82 - The most frequently occurring major psychological disorder is ___________?
Bipolar disorder
83 - The most frequently occurring number in a distribution.
Mode
84 - The most frequently occurring score in a distribution is known as the
Mode
85 - The most frequently occurring score(s) in a distriution is the .....
Mode
86 - The most fundamental principle of perceptual organization is called ________________?
law of closure
87 - The most fundamental principle of perceptual organization is called the___________?
Figure-ground relationship
88 - The most helpful for revealing cause-and-effect relationship is __________?
the experiment
89 - The most important criterion for generating a testable theory is
its precision of prediction.
90 - The most important developmental task of adolescence is building a(n)
Identity
91 - The most pioneered contributor to Behavioural school of psychology is _________.
Watson
92 - The most primitive unit of thought is:
image
93 - The most reliable measure of sleep would be a combination of
physiological measures recorded in a sleep laboratory and video monitoring on the same night
94 - The most used method in the psychoanalytic approach to understand behavior is:
free association
95 - The most valid and reliable intelligent tests are administered by trained examiners on a .....
one-on-one basis
96 - The most widely used test for adults was de-veloped by
Wechsler
97 - The motto "use it or lose it" is a good strategy to avoid which of the following?
retrieval failure in long-term memory
98 - The multiple choice question is an example of what kind of retrieval process?
Recognition
99 - The multi-store model describes which of following memory stores?
Sensory register, long-term memory and short-term memory
100 - The Multi-store Model of memory involves
sensory, short-term and Long-term memory processes
101 - The Multi-store Model of memory is made up of which processes
sensory, short-term and Long-term memory processes
102 - The multi-store model of memory.....
describes a flow of information through three separate memory stores in a fixed order.
103 - The Multi-Store Model outlines
the storage capacity and duration for each memory different memory store.
104 - The muscle fibers of the iris can increase or decrease the amount of light entering the eye by expanding or contracting the ______________?
pupil
105 - The myelin sheath serves to ____________?
increase the speed of natural transmission
106 - The name of the action movie about the Thunder God who is banished by his father, Odin, to earth to live among humans.
Thor
107 - The name of the information that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs).
data
108 - The names of the participants in a research experiment must be kept secret is an ethical guideline known as
Confidentiality
109 - The national collection of researchers and professionals who educate others about psychology and review research is known as the .....
American Psychological Association
110 - The Naturalistic-Observation Method takes place.....
in the field
111 - The nature vs nurture debate examines:
how much heredity and how much environment contribute to our thoughts feelings and behaviour.
112 - The nature vs nurture debate is about:
Whether or not characteristics people have are more controlled by their genes or the environment they grew up in
113 - The nature/nurture controversy considers the degree to which traits and behaviors are determined by _______________?
genes or experience
114 - The Near Miss Effect shows how ....., thus encouraging them to continue playing the game.
people become just as confident and motivated from a near-win as they do from actually winning
115 - The need to belong and to give and receive love are part of an individual's
psychological needs
116 - The neocortex makes up what percent of the cortex?
0.8
117 - the nerve connection from eye to brain is called
the optic nerve
118 - The nerves that branch out from the side of the spinal cord are the
Peripheral NS
119 - The nerves that branch out from the spinal cord are the
peripheral nervous system.
120 - The nervous and endocrine system .....
Send information to and from the brain
121 - The nervous system has many divisions, that have different roles/functions. The first/main division contains the;
central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
122 - The nervous system is composed of the ....., ....., and .....
brain, spinal cord, nerves
123 - The nervous system is directly responsible for all of the following activities except
secreting hormones into the bloodstream.
124 - The nervous system is divided into two main parts:
the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
125 - The nervous system sends electrical messages. What type of message does the endocrine system send?
chemical
126 - The nervous system.....
all of the above.
127 - The network was broadcasting four games ..... across the country.
simultaneously
128 - The neural development of newborn babies typically involves
creation of neural pathways
129 - The neuron is a ..... cell.
brain
130 - The neuron that can initiate movement and behavior:
motor
131 - The neurotransmitter most associated with rewards and motivation is:
Dopamine
132 - The neurotransmitter norepinephrine stimulates fight or flight reactions in what system?
Sympathetic system
133 - The neurotransmitters basic to synaptic transmission are stored in ___________?
vesicles
134 - The nociception sense refers to our ability to sense
pain
135 - The non-directive approach characterizes ____________?
Behavior modification
136 - The notion of ..... is based on Bandura's social learning theory
Self efficacy
137 - The notion that aggression can be reduced by allowing angry individuals to engage harmless activities that allow them to "blow off self esteem" is __________?
Displacement hypothesis
138 - The notion that aggression can be reduced by allowing angry individuals to engage harmless activities that allow them to "blow off self esteem" is ___________?
Displacement hypothesis
139 - The notion that the mind and body are separate and distinct is called .....
dualism
140 - The notion that the mind and body are separate and distinct.
dualism
141 - The number of hours a person has driven and the number of miles driven.
Positively correlated
142 - The number of smartphones sold and the number of food poisoning cases.
No correlation
143 - The number of wavelengths that pass a point each second
frequency
144 - The number that appears the most in a data set is the
Mode
145 - The number that occurs the most is.....
mode
146 - The objective/s of performance management can be broadly said to be:
Motivational
147 - The observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite major positive or negative events or life refers to which psychological phenomenon?
All of the above
148 - The occipital lobes allow what?
The processing of information about such aspects of visual stimuli as their color, shape, and motion.
149 - The occurrence of ‘O’ in ‘S-O-R’ concept is responsible in regulating the behavior of the organism and making psychological activity_____________?
Dynamic
150 - The occurrence of rewards or punishments following particular behaviors:
Contingencies of Reinforcement
151 - The oldest method in psychology is
Introspection.
152 - The oldest method of the study of behavior is
Introspection
153 - The one factor that a scientist changes and controls during an experiment.
Independent Variable
154 - the one who work on adjustment problems
Counselor
155 - The only proven clinical use for hypnotism is
pain relief
156 - the only type of neuron in the retina that sends signals to the brain resulting from visual stimulation
Ganglion cells
157 - The opponent processing theory allows you to see an
after image
158 - The opponent-process theory is to our sense of color as the gate-control theory is to our sense of ____________?
pain
159 - The opposite of acquisition is
extinction.
160 - The optic nerve
transfers optic information from the retina to the brain
161 - The optic nerve from each eye merges just below the brain at a point called the
Optic chiasm
162 - The order of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, from bottom to top, is.....
Physiological, Safety, Belonging-Love, Self-Esteem, and Self-Actualization
163 - The organ system responsible for taking in information and directing the actions of the other parts of the body is the
Nervous system
164 - the organisation and interpretation of sensory information is called
Perception
165 - The organisation of sensory information into meaningful experiences is known as.....
Perception
166 - the organisation responsible for monitoring the behaviour of psychologists in the UK is called the
BPS
167 - The organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences.
Perception
168 - The ORIGINAL IQ test formula for scoring was
mental age divided by chronological age time 100
169 - The ORIGINAL IQ TEST formula worked okay for ..... but not for ..... It was clearly flawed.
children/ adults
170 - The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.
dependent variable
171 - The outcome that is measured
dependent variable
172 - the outer covering of the brain which continues to develop is called the
Cortex
173 - The outer layer of the brain - responsible for higher mental processes and complex behaviour - is called:
cerebral cortex
174 - The outer layer of the forebrain that gives the ability to learn and store information.
cerebral cortex
175 - the overall structure of the brain is similiar to a .....
both a and b
176 - The palmar reflex, present in neonates, refers to which behavior?
hand grasping
177 - The part of Baddeley & Hitch's Working Memory Model that processes auditory stimuli is called
The phonological loop
178 - The part of personality that provides a buffer between the id and the out side world is __________?
Ego
179 - The part of Sternberg' theory that relates to problem solving.
Analytical
180 - The part of the autonomic nervous system that triggers physiological arousal is _____________?
parasympathetic nervous system
181 - The part of the brain associated with Decision Making and Social Judgments
Frontal Lobe
182 - The part of the brain associated with Rewards and Motivation
Striatum
183 - The part of the brain associated with STRESS
Amygdala
184 - The part of the brain associated with the formation of Memories.
Hippocampus
185 - the part of the brain that connects to the Spinal cord is the
Brain Stem
186 - The part of the brain that controls life-sustaining functions, such as heartbeat, breathing, and swallowing, is the:
medulla.
187 - The part of the experiment that contains the independent variable is administered to is called the .....
experimental group
188 - The part of the experiment that does not contain the independent variable. Used for comparison.
Control Group
189 - The part of the eye that gets infected when you have pink eye is the
Conjunctiva
190 - The part of the eye where vision is more acute is the ________________?
fovea
191 - The part of the human brain that is most like that of a fish
brain stem
192 - The part of the mind that contains inherited instincts, urges, and memories common to all people:
Collective Unconscious
193 - The part of the nervous system that consists of nerves that branch out from the CNS (central nervous system) and connect to other body parts
Peripheral
194 - The part of the nervous system that deals with emotional memory.
Amygdala
195 - The part of the nervous system that helps process motor memory.
Basal Ganglia
196 - The part of the nervous system that's the "loading dock" for memories (meaning new ones can't be made without it).
Hippocampus
197 - The part of the neuron that decided if the message will travel to the next neuron or not is the.....
cell body
198 - The part of the neuron that insulates the axon and increases the speed of the neural message within the neuron.
Myelin Sheath
199 - The part of the neuron that is made up of short fibers that stick out from the cell body.
dendrites
200 - The part of the neuron that produces the myelin sheath is the:
Schwann cell
201 - The part of the neuron that receives messages from other neurons
dendrite
202 - The part of the neuron that sends messages to other neurons
axon
203 - The part of the personality that is in touch with reality and strives to meet the demands of the id and the superego in socially acceptable ways:
Ego
204 - The part of the personality that is the source of conscience and counteracts the socially undesirable impulses of the id:
Super Ego
205 - The part of the report that answers the initial question and states that it supports or refutes the hypothesis is called the what?
Conclusion
206 - The part of the subconscious that tempts you to take all the food instead of just your share is
the id
207 - The part of the subconscious which operates on the pleasure principle.
Id
208 - The part of your brain that deals with hunger and your ability to feel hungry.
lateral hypothalamus
209 - The part of your eye that gives it its color. It is a muscle that controls the size of your pupil.
iris
210 - The part of your mind that contains innate or instinctual unconscious thought.
id
211 - The part of your mind that contains the moral compass.
superego
212 - The part of your mind that makes you aware of your innate needs.
ego
213 - The part of your motivation that might cause you to go get some food when hungry
homeostasis
214 - The part of your subconscious that operates on the morality principle is
The superego
215 - The partial or complete inability to articulate ideas or understand spoken or written language because of brain injury or damage is known as:
Aphasia
216 - The participants in a research study are classified as high, moderate, or low in self-esteem. What measurement scale is being used to classify self-esteem?
Ordinal
217 - The participants in Bartlett's study transformed the story to make it more:
Familiar
218 - The participants in Gilchrist Nesberg's study had to:
Adjust the brightness of a light
219 - The participants were all .....
University students
220 - The participants who are treated in the same way as the experimental group, except that the experimental treatment is not applied, make up the .....
control croup
221 - The parts of a neuron are:
dendrites, axon, soma, nucleus
222 - The parts of the experiment that must be kept the same.
Constants
223 - The pattern of physical and behavioral changes that follows a 24 hour cycle, in accordance with the hours of light and darkness.
circadian rhythm
224 - The patterns of feelings, motives, and behavior that set people apart from one another.
Personality
225 - The patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavior that make a person unique?
Personality Psychology
226 - The perceived fairness of the interpersonal treatment receives from the organization:
Interactional Justice
227 - The percentage of the differences between individual people with regard to personality traits, as well as intelligence is known as the:
heritability
228 - The perception of a relationship between two variables that does not actually exist is called ___________?
illusory correlation
229 - The perception of a relationship where none exists
Illusory Correlation
230 - The perception of an object as distinct from its surroundings is called ________________?
figure-ground perception
231 - The perception of depth and distance in a 3-dimensional space depends mostly on ________________?
binocular vision
232 - The perception principle that the closer something is, the more detail we will be able to perceive is called
texture gradient
233 - The perception that Bugs Bunny is hopping across a movie screen best illustrates:
stroboscopic movement
234 - The perception that chance or forces beyond our control are the primary influence on our success is called:
external locus of control
235 - The perception that individuals' significant others value them for what they are, which leads the individuals to grant themselves the same regard:
Unconditional Positive Regard
236 - The perception that one's fate is determined by one's own talents and effort reflects:
an internal locus of control
237 - the perception, storage and retrieval of information about social interactions
social cognition
238 - The perceptual processes that make use of preexisting knowledge to interpret new information are called _______________?
top-down processes
239 - The perceptual tendency to group together stimuli that are near each other is called
proximity.
240 - The perceptual tendency to visually perceive objects located closer to the horizon as being more distant than objects located further from the horizon
Height in the Visual Field
241 - The perceptual tendency to visually perceive the object that produces the largest image on the retina as being closer and the object that produces the smallest image as being further away (when objects are expected to be the same size)
Relative Size
242 - The performance of which of the following activities is least likely to be facilitated by the presence of an audience?
memorizing a script
243 - The period of the sleep cycle when most dreaming occurs is
REM
244 - The Peripheral Nervous System consists of which two parts?
Somatic Nervous System
245 - The peripheral nervous system is made up of extensions from the central nervous system known as _____________?
nerves
246 - The persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage and retrieval of information.
memory
247 - the persistence of learning over timethrough the storage and retrieval of information
Memory
248 - The person given the title of teacher is the ..... in then the obedience experiment.
Participant
249 - The person in a school with the most status and social power is generally:
the principal
250 - The person in the group that is most likely to become the scapegoat is:
person with the least power
251 - the person mostly responsible for psychology as a scientific discipline in it's own right
Wilhelm Wundt
252 - The person responsible for the first useful Intelligence test
Binet
253 - The Personality inventory to measure mental disorder was developed by
Sipply
254 - The perspective followed by a researcher who attributes an abnormal behavior to a neurotransmitter or its receptor is.....
Biological
255 - The perspective in psychology that focuses on how behavior and thought differ from situation to situation and culture to culture is the
Socio-Cultural perspective
256 - The perspective in psychology thst emphasizes how we learn observable responses is the
Behavioral perspective
257 - The perspective of Psychology that focuses on the link between the body and the mind is known as ..... This perspective often uses medication for treatments.
Biological
258 - The perspective of psychology which emphasis the influence of our body on behavior is
biological perspective
259 - The perspective that emphasizes observable responses is ____________?
behavioral
260 - The perspective which is concerned with characteristic changes that occur in people as they mature is known as _________?
Developmental Perspective
261 - The phase of consciousness where our brains interpret that something stinks after our noses have sensed a specific smell:
Perception
262 - the phenomenon in which an object or its properties (e.g., size, shape, color) appear unchanged despite variations in the stimulus itself or in the external conditions of observation, such as object orientation or level of illumination.
Perceptual Constancy
263 - The phenomenon in which information learned after a memory becomes part of the memory is called
mis-attribution
264 - The phenomenon in which the expectations of the participants in a study can influence their behavior
Placebo Effect
265 - The phenomenon of color constancy best demonstrates that.....
an object's perceived color is influenced by its surrounding objects
266 - The phenomenon that refers to the ways in which an individual’s expectations influence perception is called _______________?
perceptual set
267 - The philosopher who believed that some ideas are innate ____________?
Descartes
268 - The phi-phenomenon __________________________?
occurs in response to sequentially flashing light
269 - The phonological loop area of the working memory model is made up of.....? (tick all that apply)
Only (A) & (B)
270 - The phonological loop deals with which type of information?
Auditory
271 - The phonological loop is made up of.....?
Only (A) & (B)
272 - The phonological loop of working memory is divided into two elements. These are:
Phonological store and articulatory process
273 - The phrase ‘me milk’ and ‘give ball’ are examples of __________ speech?
telegraphic
274 - The physical changes that take place in the brain when a memory forms is called the .....
Engram
275 - The physical stimulus for texture perception is
touch
276 - The physical stimulus for vision to occur is
electromagnetic energy.
277 - The physical symptoms of anxiety, such as butterflies in the stomach
Somatic Anxiety
278 - The physician's care plan must be a comprehensive plan for services based on the patient's individual needs and updated on a regular basis. The care plan must be dated and signed by the physician.
When initiated and at each review and/or modification
279 - The physiological theory of motivation has been advanced by
Morgan
280 - The picture refers to
zoological physiognomy
281 - The pituitary gland secretes ______________?
all of the above
282 - The Place Theory of pitch perception cannot account for how we hear:
Low-pitched sounds
283 - The placebo effect is best defined by which of these:
When a person reacts to a treatment as if the treatment was working, even though there was no real effect
284 - The point (weight) at which your "weight thermostat" may be set (fixed)
set point
285 - The point at which a change in sensory stimulation is detected is called the
absolute threshold
286 - The pons connects the brainstem to the:
cerebellum
287 - The Ponzo illusion illustrates that people judge the size of an object in terms of its perceived _______________?
distance
288 - The popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) is known as ..... .
cognitive-behavioral therapy
289 - The population in a research study is.....
the whole group of research interest.
290 - The population in a research study is:
The whole group of research interest
291 - The portion of the sample to which an independent variable is applied.
Experimental Group
292 - The portion of your nervous system which controls breathing and digestion is ___________?
Autonomic
293 - The portion of your nervous system which controls breathing and digestion is____________?
Autonomic
294 - The portions of your nervous system which control breathing and digestion is ______________?
autonomic
295 - The position on the basilar membrane at which waves reach their peak depends on the frequency of a tone. Accounts for high pitched sounds.
place theory
296 - The postexperimental explanation of a study.
debriefing
297 - The powerful survival impulse that leads human infants to seek closeness to their parents is called ___________________?
attachment
298 - The pq4r method is an effective study method because it
Is based on active learning.
299 - The practice of drilling holes in a person's skull to release "evil spirits."
trephination
300 - The practice of examining bumps on a person's skull to determine that person's intellect ad character traits used in the mid-1800s.
phrenology
301 - The practice of psychology is closely related to the natural sciences by
all of the above
302 - The prediction that "bright colors will make people happier" is called a(n)
hypothesis.
303 - The predisposition to perceive something in accordance with expectations of what it is.
Perceptual Set
304 - The prefix "pre" in "preview" or the suffix "ed" in "adapted" are examples of
morphemes.
305 - The pre-frontal cortex is in charge of
Goal setting, paying attention, motivation, planning, understanding consequences, and having self-control.
306 - The Premack Principle states that
Of two activities, whichever is preferred the most can be used to reinforce the other activity
307 - The premise of - the more times two things are paired together, the greater chance that learning will occur - is best exemplified by -
The Contingency Model
308 - The presence of an authority figure is key to which of these concepts?
Obedience
309 - The presence of just one confederate that goes against the majority can reduce conformity levels by as much as.....
0.8
310 - the presence of others lessens an individual's feelings of responsibility for his or her actions or failure to act
diffusion of responsibility
311 - The presentation of an disliked (adverse) stimulus or the removal of a liked stimulus are both examples of
punishment.
312 - the Primacy and recency effect was researched by
Murdock
313 - The primaries in subtractive color mixing are _________________?
blue, yellow, red
314 - The primary advantage of ..... is that it allows for more control than naturalistic observation.
Laboratory Observation
315 - The primary advantage of this method of research is that it allows for more control than naturalistic observation
Laboratory Observations
316 - The primary aim of educational psychology is
To contribute to an understanding of sound educational practices.
317 - The primary difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist is .....
the ability to prescribe medication
318 - The primary disadvantage of ..... research is that it does not permit researchers to establish cause-and-effect results instead only showing a relationship exists between the two variables being studied.
Correlational
319 - The primary goal of psychology is to learn about:
human behavior
320 - The primary gustatory cortex is located:
in the parietal lobe
321 - The primary motor cortex is located in:
the frontal lobes.
322 - The primary task of the teacher is
To stimulate and guide student learning.
323 - The prime requirement to become a good teacher is to have
Subject knowledge
324 - The principal function of parietal lobe is ___________?
spatial processing
325 - The principle in correlational studies is that some variables .....
co-vary
326 - The principle of proximity is the tendency to perceive parts of a visual image which are
similar in feature - size, shape, texture or colour - as belonging together
327 - The principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed
Conservation
328 - The principle that inherited traits that better enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations
natural selection
329 - The principle that one sense may influence another is:
Sensory interaction
330 - The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as _________________?
Weber’s law
331 - The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived is known as.....
Weber's law
332 - The principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage.
Weber's Law
333 - The principles of continuity and closure best illustrate that
sensations are organized into meaningful patterns.
334 - The principles of operant conditioning are best illustrated by
reinforcing a behavior through rewards or token economy
335 - The principles of psychology book is written by
William James
336 - the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions
Ethics
337 - The probability of obtaining your results by chance is less than 5 times out of a hundred
p<0.05
338 - The procedure in which only a portion of correct responses are reinforced is called ________________?
partial reinforcement
339 - The procedure was created to study child-caregiver attachment by placing a child in an unfamiliar environment while their caregiver leaves and returns. Then the child's reactions are observed.
The Strange Situation
340 - The process by which a single neuro relays messages to other neurons is known as _____________?
synaptic transmission
341 - The process by which a stimulus increases the chances of a preceding behavior occurring again is called:
Reinforcement
342 - The process by which a stimulus increases the chances that the preceding behavior will occur again.
reinforcement
343 - The process by which a stimulus is attended to, identified, studied and incorporated into memory is called ________________?
encoding
344 - The process by which activities are started, directed, and continued so that physical or psychological needs or wants are met is called
Motivation
345 - The process by which an organism becomes more sensitive to stimuli that are low in magnitude and less sensitive to stimuli that are constant
sensory adaptation
346 - The process by which children balance assimilation and accommodation to create a stable understanding of their world is referred to as:
Equilibrium
347 - The process by which information is acquired, encoded, stored, retrieved, and sometimes forgotten
memory
348 - 'The process by which information is held in STM by repeating over and over again.' What is being described here?
Maintenance rehearsal
349 - 'The process by which information is held in the STM be repeating it over and over again'. What does this describe?
Maintenance rehearsal
350 - The process by which information is maintained over a period of time.
Storage
351 - The process by which meaning is given to incoming sensory information
Perception
352 - the process by which one form of energy is converted into another.
Transduction
353 - The process by which our sense organs and receptors detect and respond to sensory information is called
sensation
354 - the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
sensation
355 - The process by which people translate incoming info into a form they can understand.
Assimilation
356 - The process by which rods and cones change electromagnetic energy into neural messages is called what?
transduction
357 - The process by which sensory information is converted into neural energy is ______________?
transduction
358 - The process by which sensory information is converted into neural energy is:
Transduction
359 - The process by which we give meaning to sensory information, resulting in our personal interpretation is called
perception
360 - the process by which we interpret and explain others' behaviors
attribution theory
361 - the process by which we recollect prior experiences and information and skills learned in the past
memory
362 - The process by which we select, organize, and interpret sensory information in order to recognize meaningful objects and events is called
perception.
363 - The process in which your eyes adjust from darkness to bright light is called _______________?
light adaptation
364 - The process is normally individualized.
Psychological Assessment
365 - The process of bringing together the results of two or more learning experiences to arrive at a desired goal is called
Reasoning
366 - The process of categorizing people into in-groups and out-groups is called.....
Social categorization
367 - The process of changing patterns of human behavior over the long term using various motivational techniques, mainly consequences (negative reinforcement) and rewards (positive reinforcement). The ultimate goal is to swap objectionable, problematic, or dis
behavior modification
368 - The process of comparing currently experienced visual input with past visual memories takes place with ___________?
association areas
369 - The process of comparing our in-group with out-groups is called.....
Social comparison
370 - the process of converting physical energy into a neural signal
transduction
371 - The process of detecting and responding to incoming sensory information
Reception
372 - The process of detecting, translating and transmitting messages from the external environment to the brain is called _____________?
perception
373 - The process of determining the job duties and requirements:
Job Analysis
374 - The process of developmental plasticity is thought to involve:
proliferation, migration, pruning and myelination
375 - The process of eliminating synaptic connections is called
synaptic pruning
376 - The process of encoding information from short-term memory to long-term memory is most efficient when it:
Involves some kind of association
377 - The process of encoding refers to _____________________?
getting information into memory
378 - The process of encoding refers to:
getting info into memory
379 - The process of filing information into your memory is.....
Encoding
380 - the process of FINDING people to work for a company or become a new member of an organization
recruitment
381 - The process of fitting objects and experiences into one's schemas
Assimilation
382 - The process of generating a description of what a job involves part of the
job analysis
383 - The process of getting information from the long-term memory to the short-term memory is
retrieval
384 - The process of getting information from the Short-term memory to the Long term memory is
retrieval
385 - The process of getting information into memory is called.....
encoding
386 - The process of getting information out of memory storage is called __________________?
retrieval
387 - The process of getting information out of memory storage is known as __________________?
retrieval
388 - the process of getting information out of memory storage.
retrieval
389 - The process of getting the information back out of memory storage.
retrieval
390 - The process of group items to make them easier to remember.
Chunking
391 - The process of holding information in memory is referred to as
Storage.
392 - The process of incorporating new information into existing knowledge is known as what?
Assimilation
393 - the process of influencing behavior by means of unpleasant stimuli
aversive control
394 - the process of integrating, organizing and interpreting sensory signals, occurs in the brain
perception
395 - The process of interference can lead to a failure in __________________?
any of the above
396 - The process of interpreting new information in terms of existing schema is termed _______________?
assimilation
397 - the process of learning behavior through observation and imitation of others
modeling
398 - The process of learning the rules of behavior of the culture within which an individual is born and will live
Socialization
399 - the process of learning the rules of behavior of the culture within which an individual is born and will live is called .....
Socialization
400 - The process of learning to control bodily states with the help of specialized machines
biofeedback
401 - The process of learning to ride a bicycle is an example of
Shaping
402 - The process of looking into yourself and describing what is there (activity we did on the board)
Introspection
403 - The process of looking inward in an attempt to directly observe one's own psychological processes.
introspection
404 - The process of observing and imiating a specific behavior is know as
modeling
405 - The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior.
modeling
406 - the process of obtaining information that has been stored in memory
retrieval
407 - the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
Perception
408 - the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. Is this a candlestick or two people's faces depends on our
perception
409 - the PROCESS of placing encoded information into long term memory is called
storage
410 - the process of placing encoded information into permanent mental state is called
storage
411 - The process of placing encoded information into permanent metnal state is called.....
storage
412 - the process of placing encoded information into relatively permanent mental storage for later recall
storage
413 - The process of receiving and representing stimulus energies by the nervous system is called
sensation.
414 - The process of receiving stimuli from the environment is called:
sensation.
415 - The process of receiving stimuli from the environment.
Sensation
416 - The process of recognizing and interpreting sensory stimuli?
Perception
417 - The process of recruiting, testing, and interviewing applicants falls under which main focus of Industrial Psychology?
selection
418 - The process of reinforcing successively closer approximations to a desired behavior is called ___________________?
shaping
419 - The process of retaining and reproducing what has been learnt is known as .....
Remembering
420 - The process of retrieval refers to
getting information out of memory storage.
421 - The process of social comparison increases the chances for negative biases related to perceived
out-groups
422 - The process of taking in new information and adding it to what the child already knows is called .....
assimilation
423 - The process of thinking and analysing your feelings is called:
self-analysis
424 - The process of using a reunforcement to alter the probability that a given behaviour will be repeated is known as
Operant conditioning
425 - The process of when information is converted to neural messages is called.....
Transduction
426 - The process that controls the flow of information from the sensory store into the short-term store is ________________?
attention
427 - The process that controls the movement of information from the short-term store into the long-term store is __________________?
encoding
428 - the process that occurs when new information appears in short-term memory and replaces what was already there
interference
429 - The process that researchers must partake in while conducting a psychological research study is called.....
The Scientific Method
430 - the process through which messages are conveyed using space, body language, and facial expression
nonverbal communication
431 - The process where stimuli is converted into a neural signal, then send to the brain:
transduction
432 - The process whereby the visual stimulus is given meaning is called
interpretation
433 - The processes of growth and development are ______________?
continuous
434 - The processes of sensation in their correct order are
reception, transduction, transmission
435 - The processing of information into the memory system.
encoding
436 - the progressive decline in the resolution of textures as the viewer moves away from them.
Texture Gradient
437 - The proponent of an experiment called Strange Situation
Mary Ainsworth
438 - The psychiatric/psychotherapy treatment plan must state the
All of these
439 - The psychoanalytic perspective is distinctive because it emphasizes that behavior is influenced by ___________?
unconscious desires and unresolved conflicts
440 - The PSYCHODYNAMIC approach deals with:
unconscious thoughts and feelings that affect human behavior
441 - The psychodynamic perspective was based on the work of .....
Freud
442 - The psychological damage done by which war cause the US government to invest more in training psychologists?
World War II
443 - The psychological perspective concerned with how unconscious instincts, conflicts, motives, and defenses influence behavior.
psychoanalytic
444 - The psychological perspective that emphasizes on how observable responses are learned is the_____________ perspective?
behavioral
445 - The psychological process through which we interpret sensory stimulation
sensation
446 - The psychological term for an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting is
Personality
447 - The psychological term for photographic memory is.....
Eidetic imagery
448 - The psychological test of human emotions and personality, using inkblots, is formally known as what?
RorschachÂ
449 - The psychological theory that the brain is made up of various structures.
Structuralism
450 - The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was:
Skinner
451 - The psychologist who created the shock experiment was:
Stanley Milgram
452 - The psychologist who disagreed with Spearman about the nature of intelligence, identifying seven clusters of primary mental abilities rather than one general intelligence factor, was
Thurstone
453 - The psychologist who wrote the first modern book of psychology, The Principles of Psychology in 1890 is
William James
454 - The psychology field that focuses on our family and friends influencing our behavior is
social psychology
455 - the punishment of a response by the addition or experience of an unpleasent stimulus
positive punishment
456 - the punishment of a response by the removal of a pleasurable stimulus
negative punishment
457 - The pupil is the
adjustable opening in the center of the eye through which light enters.
458 - The pupil's size is controlled by the
Ciliary muscles
459 - The Purple Arrow represents?
Motor Output
460 - The purpose of "Q-technique" is ___________?
to measure a person’s opinion of himself
461 - The purpose of an experimental group in research is to:
ascertain the effects of the independent variable
462 - The purpose of ethical guidelines are
To ensure participants are safe
463 - The purpose of ethical guidelines in research is to
Ensure that the participants are safe
464 - The purpose of random assignment in an experiment is to
to control extraneous variables
465 - The purpose of the control group is:
Used for comparisons
466 - The purpose of the control in an experiment is to:
Give a comparison that allows the variable to be judged
467 - The purpose of the myelin sheath is to:
wrap around and insulate an axon
468 - The pygmalion effect study by Rosenthal showed that teachers who have high expectations for students ended up with students who:
had improved academic performance
469 - The quality of which researchers actually measure what they intend to measure is called .....
validity
470 - The question "Why is something happening?" refers to which one of the goals of psychology?
explanation
471 - The question psychologists want to answer.
hypothesis
472 - The questions in a Structured Interview are.....
Decided in advance
473 - The range of average IQ is:
90-110
474 - The rank system in the armed forces is a rigid hierarchy that allows for obedience to orders. Which source of power does this system most closely reflect?
Legitimate power
475 - The rapid increase in the number of neural connections in the brains of newborns and infants is the result of
synaptogenesis
476 - The rate of operant learning become fast.
In Partial Reinforcement
477 - The rate of progress in learning slows down and reaches a limit beyond which further improvement seems impossible. It is known as
Plateau
478 - The rate of the neural impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone.
frequency theory
479 - The ratio which states the relationship between mental age and chronological age is called the:
Intelligence Quotient IQ
480 - The rationalist approach of Chomsky in explaining language development is also referred to as _______________?
nativist
481 - The Raven Progressive Matrices consists of
Sixty matrices
482 - The really wealthy people in society are not necessarily the happiest.
affluent
483 - The reappearance after a pause of an extinguished conditioned response.
spontaneous recovery
484 - The reappearance after a period of time of a conditioned response that has been subjected to extinction
spontaneous recovery
485 - The reappearance of a classically conditioned response after extinction has occurred.
Spontaneous Recovery
486 - The reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred.
Spontaneous Recovery
487 - The reappearance of a learned response after its apparent extinction.
Spontaneous recovery
488 - The reappearance of a weakened conditioned stimulus.
spontaneous recovery
489 - The reappearance of an extinguished response
Spontaneous recovery
490 - The reason experimental designs are counterbalanced is to control
order effects.
491 - The reason most North Americans cannot accurately describe the head of a penny is due to:
encoding failure.
492 - The reason students will act inappropriately in school is because of how they were raised in their home environment-they never learned how to behave properly but were reinforced to act without manners.
Sociocultural
493 - The reasoning behind debriefing is so participants do not leave with a ..... about being lied to.
Negative effect
494 - The receptor of the eye that functions best in dim light is the ______________?
rod
495 - The reciprocity norm refers to the expectation that people should
help those who have helped them.
496 - The recognition of a visual stimulus is the final phase in visual .....and occurs in the .....
perception; brain
497 - The rectangular table appears rectangular regardless of the distance or angle at which it is viewed. This is an example of _______________?
shape constancy
498 - The red light meant to stop counting and recall the trigram (three-letter consonant).
The red light meant to stop counting and recall the trigram
499 - The red portion is the .....
Cerebellum
500 - The regulatory purpose of ethical codes are to.....
All of the above
501 - the reinforcement of a response by the addition or experiencing of a pleasure stimulus
positive reinforcement
502 - the reinforcement of a response by the removal, escape from, or avoidence of an unpleasent stimulus
negative reinforcement
503 - the reinforcement of each and every correct response
continuous reinforcement
504 - the reinforcement of simple shapers in behavior that lead to a desired , more complex behavior
shaping
505 - the reinforcement of some, but not all of the correct responses
partial reinforcement
506 - The reinforcement process used to train an animal to do something it has never done before and would never do on its own is known as this.
shaping
507 - The reinforcement schedule that generally provides the most resistance to response extinction is:
variable-ratio
508 - The reinforcement schedule that yields the lowest performance is the __________________?
fixed-interval schedule
509 - The reinforcement that might drive you to try and accomplish things.
incentive
510 - The reinforcer, such as food, that gets the organism to continue a behavior is called .....
Primary Reinforcer
511 - The relationship between a child’s intellectual development and the age at which the child first walks is _____________?
nonexistent
512 - The relationship between a high grade and time spent studying is an example of:
positive correlation
513 - The relationship between attitudes and behaviour is.....
bi-directional
514 - The relationship between behavior and attitudes tends to be
consistent
515 - The relationship between temperature decreasing and more people buying coats is an example of:
negative correlation
516 - The relationship between the amount of weird Nicolas Cage pictures you look at and the amount of hair on your back is an example of:
no correlation
517 - The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system is called ..... memory.
Long term
518 - the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences.
long-term memory
519 - The removal of an unpleasant stimulus that increases the probability of that response happening again
Negative Reinforcement
520 - The repeated presentation of the CS without the UCS results in __________________?
extinction
521 - The repeated presentation of the CS without the UCS results in _________________?
extinction
522 - The representativeness heuristic can be used to create and sustain:
stereotypes.
523 - The representativeness heuristic can produce faulty estimates if:
We fail to consider the approximate number of prototypes that actually exist
524 - The research method of the Pepperberg study can best be described as:
An animal case study carried out in a laboratory
525 - The research method that uses a thorough investigation of one or more participants.
Case Study
526 - The research methodology Wilhelm Wundt used is called
Introspection
527 - The researcher and patient both do not know if the substance is a placebo or the real substance.
double blind study
528 - The researcher measures a variable at the beginning of a study and then watches the effect of this variable over time.
prospective
529 - The researcher must also ensure that if vulnerable groups are to be used (elderly, disabled, children, etc.), they must receive special care. Which ethical guideline is this?
protection of participants
530 - The responses or reactions wemake or activities we engage in are called as .....
Behaviours
531 - The resting rate of energy expenditure for maintaining basic body functions.
basal metabolic rate
532 - The result an individual is trying to achieve through his or her motivated behavior is a(n)
incentive
533 - The result of reinforcement is to
cause a behavior to continue.
534 - The result or consequence of an action, situation, or event.
outcome
535 - The results indicated that participants took an average of .....
2.83 seconds to begin their recall of the trigram once their counting had stopped.
536 - The retention (saving) of encoded material over time.
storage
537 - the retention of encoded information over time.
storage
538 - The retention of facts is referred to as.....
Semantic memory
539 - The retina is
the light sensitive inner surface of the eye containing the receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that begin the processing of visual information
540 - the revival of a response after a period of extinction
Spontaneous Recovery
541 - The right side of my body is control by .....
The left Cerebral Hemisphere
542 - The Right to Withdraw includes withdrawing.....
Only (A) & (B)
543 - The role of a control condition of the I.V in an experiment is to.....
compare to one or more of the experimental condition
544 - The role of a psychologist involves:
All of the above
545 - The role of brain, body chemical, central nervous system, neural mechanism, etc., are considered the _________ branch of psychology.
Neuro psychology
546 - The role of person centered therapy is.....
to help clients find their true selves and realize their unique potential
547 - The role of the parasympathetic nervous system is to return the body to:
homeostasis
548 - The roles of guard and prisoner were decided:
Randomly
549 - The roots of cognitive therapy appear to be a combination of which of the following two theories:
Behaviorism and psychoanalysis
550 - The Rorshach Test and Cloud Formation Tests are examples of what type of psychology?
Psychoanalytic
551 - the rotation of the two eyes inward toward a light source so that the image falls on corresponding points on the foveas
Convergence
552 - The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.
Syntax
553 - The rules most directly involved in permitting a person to derive meaning from words and sentences are rules of
semantics.
554 - The rules of grammar are rules of
Syntax
555 - The rules of language
Grammer
556 - The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov discovered that .....
dogs would salivate to the sound of a ticking metronome due to a learned reflexive response called conditioning
557 - The same group of people participate in every level of the IV.
repeated measures
558 - The same individuals are studied over a long period of time can be years up to decades
Longitudinal Studies
559 - The same people studied and retested over a long period in a ..... study.
longitudinal.
560 - The sample in the Stanford Prison Experiment was made up of:
21 American university students
561 - The sample matches the make-up of the population. Participants from within various subgroups of the population are randomly selected.
Stratified sampling
562 - The sample of a research study is:
The group of participants who are used in the research
563 - The sampling method which can be generalized to the widest, most general population is
Random sample
564 - The sampling procedure where everybody has an equal chance of being included in a study:
Random sampling
565 - The sampling procedure where the researcher divides the population into sub-groups, then selects people randomly from each sub-group, is:
Stratified sampling
566 - The sampling procedure which involves taking whichever people are available to participate is a:
Convenience sample
567 - The SAT is an example of a(n)
aptitude test
568 - The saying 'think with your head not your heart' implies that the heart is capable of thought. This notion would fall under what conflict of ideas?
brain versus heart debate
569 - The scapegoat theory is
The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame
570 - The scatter graph shows the relationship between the age of a car and its value.Describe the correlation shown on the diagram.
Negative
571 - The scatter graph shows the relationship between the height and arm span of some students.Describe the correlation shown on the diagram.
Positive
572 - The scatter graph shows the relationship between the test score and the time spent revising for a group of students.Describe the correlation shown on the diagram.
Positive
573 - The scatter graph shows the relationship between two test scores of some students.Describe the correlation shown on the diagram.
Negative
574 - The scatter plot below shows the number of books read by students in Mrs. Hall's English class and their final grades. Which statement represents the best description about the line of best fit?
The more books students read, the higher their English grade.
575 - The scatter plot shows the relationship between the number of chapters and the total number of pages for several books. Use the trend line to predict how many pages would be in a book with 6 chapters.
60 pages
576 - The scatterplot shows the amount of rainfall during six thunderstorms and the length of time that each storm lasted. Based on the scatterplot, which statement is true?
During each storm that lasted longer than 1 hour, there was more than 1 inch of rain.
577 - The school headteacher has been able to resolve conflicts among teachers, the action that has made the school have a maximum learning environment. Which one of the following branches of psychology has been applied?
industrial/organizational psychology
578 - The school is closed on Holidays, Christmas is a Holiday, so the school is closed. This is which type of reasoning?
Deductive
579 - The school of ..... was concerned with studying how mental processess help organisms adapt to their environement.
functionalism
580 - The school of behaviorism defined psychology as
the scientific study of observable behavior
581 - The school of psychology that argue that nearly all behavior is a result of conditioning and the environment shapes behaviors is labeled __________?
behaviorism, Watson
582 - The school of psychology whose goal was to identify the basic elements of experience was called
structuralism
583 - The school of thought that considered psychology as a research for the mind’s elementary parts and the laws by which they are combined is ___________?
Structuralism
584 - The school of thought which restricted psychology’s subject matter to the observable actions of people and other animals is ___________?
behaviorism
585 - The science of actions and mental processes of people and animal is called what?
Psychology
586 - The science of behavior and mental processes is .....
psychology
587 - The science of behavior and mental processes is the definition of which field of study?
Psychology
588 - The science of behavior and mental processes.
Psychology
589 - The science of the mind and the reasons people act the way they do is:
Psychology
590 - The scientific approach is more useful at answeringquestions about ..... than questions about .....
facts, values
591 - The scientific method .....
is the application of critical thinking, observation, and statistics
592 - The scientific method is best summarised as:
a logical process of problem-solving that is applied in all sciences.
593 - The scientific method of researching means that.....
all of the above are correct
594 - the scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
Cognitive Psychology
595 - The scientific study of behavior and mental processes is known as .....
psychology
596 - The scientific study of behavior and mental processes is known as:
psychology
597 - The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
Psychology
598 - The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Mental processes are covert, meaning internal.
psychology
599 - the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, and implied presence of others
social psychology
600 - The scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another.
social psychology
601 - The scientific study of human behavior and mental processes.
Psychology
602 - The scientific study of human flourishing with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive.
positive psychology
603 - The scientific study of human social behavior
Sociology
604 - The scientific study of language.
Linguistics
605 - The scientific study of observable behavior, and its explanation by principles of learning
behavioral psychology
606 - The scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of individuals, and how it is affected by an organism's physical state, mental state, and external environment.
psychology
607 - The scientific study of the effects of other people on the thoughts and behaviors of an individual
Social Psychology
608 - The scientific study of the links between biological and psychological processes.
biological
609 - The scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes and traits.
psychometrics
610 - the scientific study of the mind, brain and behavior
Pychology
611 - The scientific study of the nervous system:
neuroscience
612 - The scientific study of the way in which people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people is the definition of .....
social psychology
613 - The scientific study that aims to solve practical problems.
applied research
614 - The scientist most responsible for classical conditioning using dogs and meat powder.
Ivan Pavlov
615 - The scientist most responsible for operant conditioning using rats and mazes.
BF Skinner
616 - The scientist most responsible for social learning and the Bobo Doll experiment.
Albert Bandura
617 - The SCN is:
Part of the hypothalamus
618 - the second cranial nerve, which carries the axons of retinal ganglion cells and extends from the retina to the optic chiasm.
Optic nerve
619 - the second process in memory - the maintenance of encoded information over a period of time
storage
620 - The second short-term memory, where information is rehearsed so it can be stored in long-term
working memory
621 - the second stage of memory storage, info is transferred from sensory memory by paying attention to it
short-term memory
622 - The second step of the scientific method is to .....
ask a question or identify a problem
623 - The second step of the scientific method; the researcher makes a prediction as to why a phenomenon occurs
form a hypothesis
624 - The segment of the brain stem that lies between the Cerebellum and the fore brain?
Hind brain
625 - The self-defense explanation of a crime essentially involves convincing the jury to make what sort of attribution about the defendant's actions?
situational
626 - The self-determination theory makes the distinction between the following two factors of motivation
quality and quantity
627 - The self-reflective observation of one's own sensations and feelings is called
introspection.
628 - The semantic differential scale is used mainly to measure ____________?
Opinions
629 - The semicircular canals are most directly relevant to
the vestibular sense.
630 - The sense of movement and body position
Kinesthesis
631 - the sense of taste can be disrupted by what?
loss of sense of smell
632 - The sense of touch includes the four basic sensations of
pressure, pain, warmth, and cold.
633 - The sense receptors involved in gustatory sensation are
taste buds
634 - The sense that humans depend on more than the other four combined is ________________?
vision
635 - The Senses are .
Sight, Smell, Touch, Hear , Taste
636 - The sensorimotor stage focuses primarily on.....
motor skills
637 - The sensory function of the somatic nervous system can be demonstrated by
experiencing the sensation of heat when holding a hot cup of coffee
638 - The sensory process that converts sound waves into neural messages which can relate how loud an occurrence is:
Transduction
639 - The sensory receptors in the eye send the coded neural message first to the thalamus and then to which area of the brain for further processing?
visual cortex
640 - The sensory receptors in the eye, known as photoreceptors, are responsible for
the transduction of light energy into electrochemical energy
641 - The sensory receptors in your eyes that are capable of seeing color
Cones
642 - The sequentially flashing Christmas tree lights appeared to generate pulsating waves of motion. This best illustrates:
the phi phenomenon
643 - The serial position effect refers to which of the following? Select both that apply.
Only (A) & (B)
644 - The set of prescribed behaviors associated with a particular social position is best described as a(n)
role.
645 - the set of principles, attitudes, and defined objectives for which a group stands
ideology
646 - The setting, situation or environment in which an event occurs; in visual perception, the setting in which a perception is made
Context
647 - The similarity between intelligence scores of fraternal twins reared together is
less than that between identical twins reared apart.
648 - the simple mathematical average of a set of given numbers
mean
649 - The sin of memory that involves the natural decreased accessibility of memory over time.
Transience
650 - The sin of memory that occurs when people fail to pay sufficient attention.
Absentmindedness
651 - The sin of memory that occurs when the brain tries to retrieve or encode information but another memory interferes with it.
Blocking
652 - The sin of memory that occurs when there is unwanted recall of information is disturbing.
Persistence
653 - The situation of a student's final grade improving one letter grade for every three books read represents which schedule of reinforcement?
fixed ratio
654 - The situation that triggers a response describes which part of the ABC model?
Andecedent
655 - The size of the crowd at the start of the riot was said to be:
Anywhere between 300 and 3000
656 - The size of the pupil is controlled by the _______________?
iris
657 - The size of the pupil is controlled by the:
Iris
658 - The skeletal nervous system is a component of the _____________ nervous system?
peripheral
659 - The skeleton is wearing a hat.
Qualitative Observation
660 - The skills needed to ride a bicycle are stored as
procedural memory
661 - The skills needed to ride a bicycle are stored as what type of memory?
procedural
662 - The skills you develop when you learn how to swim become a part of your
procedural memory
663 - THE SKINNER BOX WORKED WITH RATS WILL FALL UNDER WHICH SUBFIELD?
EXPERIMENTAL
664 - The sleep wake cycle is an example of?
Circadian Rhythm
665 - the slight difference between the right and left retinal images
Retinal Disparity
666 - The slow process of gradual exposure to a phobic stimulus/situation refers to.....
Systematic Desensitisation
667 - The small bumps on our tongue are called.....
Papillae
668 - the small space between the terminal buttons
synaptic gap
669 - the smallest amount of a particular stimulus that can be sensed
absolute threshold
670 - The smallest amount of change in a sensation that you can detect is known as
Difference Threshold
671 - The smallest amount of stimuli needed to notice a difference
Difference threshold
672 - The smallest amount of stimuli needed to notice it
Absolute threshold
673 - The smallest difference between two stimuli that can be detected 50% of the time is called
difference threshold
674 - The smallest difference between two stimuli that is detectable 50% of the time
Difference threshold
675 - The smallest unit of meaningful sound in a word that possesses meaning on it's own is called a
Morpheme
676 - The smallest units of sound in the human language are called:
phonemes
677 - The smell of rotting flesh is particularly bad for humans because.....
it would be deadly for us to consume.
678 - The so-called "master gland" which helps control the activities of various ductless glands is the ___________?
Anterior pituitary
679 - The Social and Cultural influence on behavior.
Social / Cross-Cultural Psychology
680 - The social distance scale is mainly a measure of ___________?
Social class differences
681 - The social learning theory proposes that we learn by .....
Observation and imitation
682 - The Sociometric technique was developed by
Dr. J.L. Moreno
683 - The Solomon Asch experiment used
confederates
684 - The song that begins "Doe, a deer, a female deer . . . fah, a long long way to run" helps people remember the order of notes on a musical scale. This song is a type of:
mnemonic device.
685 - The space between neurons is known as the
synapse
686 - The space between neurons is the
synapse.
687 - The space between two neurons is called the .....
synapse
688 - The spacing effect means that
Distributed study yields better retention than cramming.
689 - The specialist most likely to have a medical degree is a
psychiatrist
690 - The specialist most likely to prescribe a drug for the treatment of psychological disorder is ___________?
psychiatrist
691 - The specialty of industrial-organizational psychology also called .....
I/O psychology
692 - The specialty of industrial-organizational psychology is characterized by the scientific study of human behavior in
Only (A) & (B)
693 - The speed of neural conduction between neurons will result in difficulties in speaking, vision, and balance if the ..... insulating the axons is damaged or removed.
myelin sheath
694 - The speed that neural impulses travel is _____________?
3 to 200 miles an hour
695 - The spinal cord does not ____________?
control primitive impulses
696 - The spiral curriculum, which is being practiced in Junior High School, is a course of study in which students will see the same topics throughout their school career, with each encounter increasing in complexity and reinforcing previous learning
Cognitivism
697 - THe spot on your eye where there are no rods or cones
Blind Spot
698 - The SQ3R reading system is a method used that helps many students improve their.....
reading comprehension
699 - The stage at which a person purportedly meets his or her full psychological potential (some characteristics include: self-acceptance, genuineness, independence, gratitude, social interest, tolerance, creativity, and self-sufficiency.)
Self-Actualization
700 - The stage of mind that is reality oriented
Ego
701 - The stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development occurs during adolescence and refers to the ability to reason about abstract concepts and principles and evaluate issues in the broader social environment?
formal-operational
702 - The stages of cognitive development associated with Piaget are ____________ in number?
four
703 - The stages of sleep are classified into two distinct basic types characterized by
rapid eye movement vs non-rapid eye movement
704 - The stages of sleep are differentiated from each other by
varying patterns of brain activity
705 - The standard deviation
indicates the average difference between each score in a group and the mean for that group of scores
706 - The standard deviation of the scores on a test was 0. This means .....
the mean, median, and mode for the test were all the same
707 - The standard of morals and procedures that must be followed by researchers to ensure the safety of participants is known as.....
Ethics
708 - The standardization sample is
the people used to represent the population for whom the test was intended.
709 - The Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated
the power that situations can have in changing how people feel, think, and behave.
710 - The Stanford Prison Experiment intended to last 14 day, how may days did it last?
6 days
711 - The Stanford Prison Experiment investigated:
Conformity to social roles
712 - The Stanford Prison Experiment showed the world that people will
readily conform to social roles.
713 - The Stanford Prison Experiment used the following sampling technique:
Volunteer
714 - The Stanford prison experiment was conducted by
Zimbardo
715 - The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted by which famous psychologist?
Philip Zimbardo
716 - The Stanford Prison Experiment was created by:
Phillip Zimbardo
717 - The Stanford Prison Experiment, Asch's conformity studies and Milgrams obedience study all had ethical issues and would not be approved to be conducted today.
FALSE
718 - The Stanford prison study investigated:
Conformity to social roles
719 - The Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler scales are
Both individual tests
720 - The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test was originally created for?
children in France
721 - The Stanford-Binet test a revision of Binet's original test was made by
Lewis Terman
722 - The state of awareness that includes a person's feelings, sensations, ideas, and perceptions
Consciousness
723 - The state of the individual can be so altered as to increase his ..... to disease agents.
Resistance
724 - The Statement "Psychology is the study of human behaviour and human relationships" belongs to
Crow and Crow
725 - The statement 'All obese people eat too much' is an example of
sterotyping
726 - The statement, "People are nothing more than robots. We are driven by our biological reactions to stimuli, " would best be supported by .....
F. Skinner
727 - The statistical method used to elicit information concerning the component parts of intelligence is known as __________________?
factor analysis
728 - The steps in the three-phase process of operant conditioning, in order, are
discriminative stimulus, response to stimulus, consequence of response to stimulus
729 - The stimulation of sensory receptors and the transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system
perception
730 - The stimulus that elicits no response before conditioning is the
neutral stimulus
731 - The strategy of problem solving that you use over and over again is your
mental set
732 - The strength and direction of the relationship between the two variables is represented by a number, known as
Correlation Coefficient
733 - the strengthening of a reaponse that occurs when the response is followed by a pleasureable consequence
reinforcement
734 - The Stroop interference task (naming colors printed in different color ink) and the task in which the names of European American and African American celebrities are printed in black or white lettering illustrate the effects of
semantics.
735 - The structuralist intended to identify the buildings blocks of _________?
Consciousness
736 - The structuralist school of psychology viewed consciousness as _____________?
a set of discrete sensations
737 - The structure inside our eye which is actually a HOLE and NOT a physical structure, which is an opening in the iris that helps control amount of light entering the eye is called.....
Pupil
738 - The student is really good with deep thinking questions. Which multiple intelligence do they fit into?
Existential
739 - The student is very confident in her work and thinks she got a good grade on her presentation. Her perception is of
internal locus of control
740 - The study and analysis of handwriting refers to
graphology
741 - The study by Vrechopolous et al. demonstrated that a ..... layout was most useful in terms of finding items on a shopping list when using an online store.
Free-form Layout
742 - The study had low validity of which kinds?
Only (A) & (B)
743 - The study in which a participant and two confederates sit in a room that slowly starts to fill with smoke is trying to study which social psychology topic?
Bystander Effect
744 - The study of ..... is the primary focus of psychology.
behavior & mental processes
745 - the study of an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
personality psychology
746 - The study of behavior and mental processes.
psychology
747 - The study of behavioral and mental processes in the context of the world in which we exist, with special interest in the relationships with those around us.
Social Psychology
748 - The study of how human physical life supports the mental processes and behaviors of the psyche is called.....
biological psychology
749 - the study of how our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviors are influenced by interactions with others
social psychology
750 - The study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people?
Social perception
751 - The study of how people influence others' behavior, beliefs, and attitudes.
Social Psychology
752 - the study of how psychological processes affect and can enhance teaching and learning
educational psychology
753 - The study of how psychology influences sports, athletic performance, exercise and physical activity?
Sports psychology
754 - The study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking.
social-cultural
755 - The study of human thought processes including attention, memory, perception, decision-making, problem-solving, and language acquisition.
Cognitive psychology
756 - The study of individual characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting.
personality psychology
757 - The study of inferring personal attributes, such as personality traits, through physical traits refers to
physiognomy
758 - The study of knowledge is called
Epistemology
759 - The study of meaning in language.
Semantics
760 - The study of mental distress is known as
psychopathology
761 - The study of mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behavior.
psychiatry
762 - The study of mental processes such as thinking, perception, information processing, etc. is a key element in what kind of psychology?
Cognitive
763 - The study of mental processes, such as occur when we perceive, learn, remember, think, communicate, and solve problems
cognitive psychology
764 - The study of paranormal events that investigates claims of ESP.
parapsychology
765 - The study of perception is primarily concerned with how we:
Interpret sensory stimuli
766 - The study of psychology began in.....
Greece
767 - The Study of Psychology can be traced back.....
to the Ancient Greeks.
768 - The study of the characteristics of one person has been called the
idiographic approach
769 - The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection.
evolutionary psychology
770 - The study of the human mind (or soul)
Psychology
771 - The study of the human mind and its functions; especially those functions that impact human and animal behavior:
Psychology
772 - The study of the importance of satisfying love and acceptance needs best describes which school of psychology is called .....
Humanistic
773 - The study of the importance of satisfying love and acceptance needs best describes which school of psychology.
Humanistic
774 - The study of the inheritance of physical and psychological characteristics from ancestors is referred to as
Genetics
775 - The study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior
behavior genetics
776 - The study of the role of the specific areas of the nervous system in organizing and controlling behavior that is specifically human is called ___________?
neuropsychology
777 - The study over a long period of time using the same group of people is called what?
Longitudinal study
778 - The subgroup of the population that participates in the study
sample
779 - The subgroup of the population that participates in the study is referred to as the .....
sample
780 - The subgroup of the sample that receives the independent variable.
experimental group
781 - The subject concerned with studying human behavior in workplace is _____________?
industrial/organizational psychology
782 - The subject mater of psychology is best described as ____________?
effect, behavior, cognition
783 - The subject matter associated with this perspective includes the nervous system, glands, and hormones, and genetic factors.
biological
784 - The subject matter for this perspective includes interpretation of mental images, thinking, and language.
cognitive
785 - The subject matter for this psychological perspective includes environmental influences, learning, and observational learning.
learning
786 - The subject matter for this psychological perspective is self-concept.
humanism
787 - The subject matter for this psychological perspective is unconscious processes and early childhood experiences.
psychoanalytic
788 - The subject matter of studying Psychology is/are:
All of the above
789 - The successive blinking on and off of the lights on a neon sign gives the impression that a drink is filling a glass. This illusion of motion is the
phi phenomenon
790 - the sudden perception of relationships among the carious parts of a problem such as an "aha!" experience, allowing the solution to the problem to come quickly
insight learning
791 - The sudden realization of a problem's solution is know as
insight
792 - The sudden, apparent realization of a solution.
insight
793 - The summary at the end of an experiment that explains the results.
conclusion
794 - The supervisor's tightrope: providing experiences that will stretch the counselor's ability without putting the client in danger or offering substandard care. Therefore, the supervisor continually decides if the supervisee is good enough on a consistent b
Only (A) & (B)
795 - The supposed state of awareness wherein individuals realize their divinity and the divine interconnectedness of all things.
Higher Consciousness
796 - The surprising ease with which people form false memories best illustrates that the processes of encoding and retrieval involve:
memory construction
797 - The Swiss psychologist who is known for working in the area of cognitive growth in children.
Piaget
798 - The syllogism is a form appropriate to ______________________?
deductive thinking
799 - The symmetric, bell shaped curve that represents the pattern in which many human characteristics are dispersed in the population is known as
normal distribution
800 - The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems differ in that:
the sympathetic nervous system is responsible for the flight or fight response whereas the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for the freeze response.
801 - The sympathetic nervous system ____________?
is a subdivision of autonomic nervous system
802 - The sympathetic system
energizes the body for activity
803 - The system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts is?
kinesthesis
804 - The system which still survives very nearly in its rigid forms is __________.
Dynamic and Psychoanalytic Approach
805 - The systematic application of learning principles to change people's actions and feelings.
behavior modification
806 - The tasks in Piaget's study did not reflect real life. This means the study lacked .....
Ecological validity
807 - The taste buds on the tip of the tongue are most sensitive to ________________?
sweet tastes
808 - The taste of umami is a ..... taste.
meaty
809 - The teacher's major contribution towards the maximum self realization of the child is best effected through
Sensitivity to pupil needs, goals and purposes.
810 - The technique of strengthening behavior by reinforcing successive approximations is called
Shaping
811 - The techniques used in behavior modification ____________?
Employ the principal of learning
812 - The technology of biofeedback is based on the principle of _________________?
positive reinforcement
813 - The teenage brain feels invincible(unable to be hurt) because
Teenage brains are craving more dopamine rushes.
814 - The teenage brain is known to have a structure that includes.....
An Underdeveloped Frontal Lobe and Highly Developed Striatum
815 - The temperature of the room is decreasing by 4 degrees Celsius.
Quantitative
816 - The temperatures in cities throughout the country that are listed in most newspapers.
Interval
817 - The tendencies of humans to group stimuli by similarity and by physical proximity to each other are illustrative of
Gestalt principles
818 - The tendency for a person's expectations of an individual to affect how they behave.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
819 - the tendency for a response that is reinforced after some , but not all, correct responses to be very resistent to extinction
partial reinforcement effect
820 - the tendency for a sensory neuron's firing rate to decrease when exposed to a constant stimulus
adaptation
821 - The tendency for a stimulus similar to the original conditioned stimulus to elicit a response similar to the conditioned response is called
generalization
822 - The tendency for animals to return to innate behaviors following repeated reinforcement is called .....
instinctive drift
823 - the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present
bystander effect
824 - The tendency for members of a group to think alike and suppress dissent.
Group Think
825 - The tendency for observers to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal dispositions on another's behavior is called
the fundamental attribution error
826 - The tendency for observers to underestimate the influence of the situation and to overestimate the influence of personal traits on a person's behavior is called
the fundamental attribution error.
827 - The tendency for one's preexisting beliefs to distort logical reasoning.
belief bias
828 - The tendency for people remember best words from the first part of a list and the last part of a list, while most likely forgetting words in the middle.
serial position effect
829 - The tendency for people to do better on a task when in the presence of other people.
Social facilitation
830 - The tendency for people to do worse on a task when in the presence of other people.
Social inhibition
831 - The tendency for people to preform differently when in the presence of others, compared to when alone, is known as .....
social facilitation
832 - The tendency for people who agree to a small task to comply later to a larger request.
Foot-in-the-door Phenomenom
833 - the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request
foot-in-the-door phenomenon
834 - The tendency for prior learning to inhibit recall of later learning is called
proactive interference.
835 - The tendency for similar stimuli to elicit the sameresponse.
generalization
836 - The tendency for the presence of others to enhance performance on simple tasks or inhibit performance on complex task
Social Facilitation
837 - The tendency of a group's views to get stronger during group discussions, which may lead to more extreme decisions
group polarization
838 - The tendency of facial expressions to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness.
Facial Feedback effect
839 - The tendency of infants to bring all novel objects to their mouths is an example of which of the following Piagetian processes?
assimilation
840 - The tendency of people to alter their behavior as a result of group pressure.
Conformity
841 - The tendency of people to comply with a second, lesser request after refusing a larger one is called the ..... technique.
door-in-the-face
842 - The tendency of people to engage in atypical behavior when stripped of their usual identity.
Dendividuation
843 - The tendency of people to exert less effort when they are pooling their efforts towards a common goal.
social loafing
844 - The tendency of people to feel less responsibility for accomplishing a task when the task is shared by members of a group is called
diffusion of responsibility.
845 - The tendency of people to go along with the views or actions of others. Solomon Asch's study would be an example
conformity
846 - The tendency of people to look toward others for cues about the appropriate way to behave when confronted by an emergency is know as
pluralistic ignorance
847 - The tendency to attribute the actions of others to dispositional factors is called what?
Fundamental Attribution Error
848 - The tendency to attribute the actions of others to internal factors is called:
Fundamental Attribution Error
849 - The tendency to be helpful when in a good mood
Feel Good do good phenomenon
850 - The tendency to believe that people get what they deserve (like New Orleans was hit by Katrina because it is an evil city).
Just World Thinking
851 - The tendency to believe that people get what they deserve.
Belief in a Just World
852 - the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it
hindsight bias
853 - The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it. This is also. known as "I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon.)
Hindsight Bias
854 - The tendency to blame others' behavior on internal factors and underestimating external factors
Fundamental Attribution Bias
855 - The tendency to comply with a large request if one has previously complied with a small request is known as.....
Foot-in-the-Door Phenonomon
856 - the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past
learned helplessness
857 - the tendency to form opinions about others based on first impressions
primacy effect
858 - The tendency to immediately recall the first and last items in a list better than the middle items is known as the ___________________ effect?
serial position
859 - The tendency to interpret an object as being constant.
constancy
860 - The tendency to organize stimuli into smooth, uninterrupted patterns is called
continuity
861 - The tendency to organize stimuli into smooth, uninterrupted patterns is called _________________?
continuity
862 - The tendency to overestimate disposition & underestimate the situation when analyzing the behavior of others is known as .....
Fundamental Attribution Error
863 - the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors
false consensus bias
864 - The tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional influences on other people's behavior rather than external ones.
Fundamental Attribution Error
865 - the tendency to perceive a familiar object as having the same brightness under different conditions of illumination.
Brightness Constancy
866 - The tendency to perceive a moving light in the night sky as belonging to an airplane rather than a weather balloon best illustrates the impact of
perceptual set.
867 - The tendency to perceive continuous patterns in stimuli is known as _________________?
good continuation
868 - The tendency to perceive things a certain way because previous experiences or expectations influence those perceptions.
perceptual set/perceptual expectancy
869 - The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one's current good or bad mood.
mood-congruent memory
870 - The tendency to recall the initial items in a series is called this.....
Primacy Effect
871 - The tendency to respond to a stimulus that is only similar to the original conditioned stimulus with the conditioned response. In Pavlov's dogs, the sight of a bowl that is not the same bowl used in the experiment.
Stimulus Generalization
872 - The tendency to respond to stimuli similar to the CS.
generalization
873 - The tendency to seek out and pay attention only to information that confirms preexisting beliefs, while ignoring contradictory evidence is called .....
the confirmation bias
874 - the tendency to stop making a generalized response to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus because the similar stimulus is never paired with the unconditioned stimulus
stimulus discrimination
875 - The tendency to think of an object functioning only in its usual or customary way is called .....
functional fixedness
876 - The tendency to think of objects only in terms of their normal uses is called
functional fixedness.
877 - The tendency to withhold assistance when other people are present.
Bystander effect
878 - the tendency to work less hard when sharing the workload with others
social loafing
879 - The tendency towards a relatively stable equilibrium as maintained by the peripheral nervous system is known as:
homeostasis
880 - The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to elicit similar responses is called
Generalization
881 - The term "germ cell" when used in genetics refers to ___________?
Ova and sperm cells
882 - The term "g-factor" refers to
General Intelligence
883 - The term "Psychology" was first used by
Rudolf geokle
884 - The term "reinforcement" refers to the pairing of ___________?
CS and CR
885 - The term ‘cognition’ means ___________?
knowledge
886 - The term ‘general to specific’ in child development refers to ______________?
motor movements
887 - The term ‘germ cell’ when used in genetics refers to _________________?
ova and sperm cells
888 - The term 'abnormal psychology' refers to which of the following?
psychology relating to atypical patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours
889 - The term 'adaptive plasticity' refers to changes in the brain:
In response to learning and experience
890 - The term coding refers to what?
The format in which information is stored in memory
891 - The term congenital means ______________?
present at birth
892 - the term 'Effort after meaning' is associated with whom
Frederic Bartlett
893 - The term for a predisposition to a certain point of view, despite what facts suggest
bias
894 - The term 'OK Boomer' has been used to 'shut down' older generations, when they say something that may seem ignorent. Some people believe this term is.....
Ageist
895 - The term propinquity explains ___________?
Both (A. and (B.
896 - The term Psychology comes from two Greek root words meaning?
Soul Science
897 - The term Psychology is made up of two words
Psycho+ Logos
898 - The term schema refers to _____________________?
the mental representation of a concept
899 - The term social influence describes
how the presence or actions of others can affect someone's behaviour
900 - The term that means of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning,
cognitive
901 - The term that refers to the measure of relationship between two variables or sets of data is
correlation
902 - the term used in attachment theory for Children who have never formed an attachment bond
Privation
903 - The term used to describe the mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining, and using knowledge is:
Cognition
904 - The term used to describe the tendency to recall items at the beginning of a list better than those that occur later in the list is
the primacy effect
905 - The term 'visual perception' refers to
making sense of visual sensory information.
906 - The terms "growth mindset" and "fixed mindset" were coined by which psychologist.
Dweck
907 - The terms "modeling" and "imitation" are most closely associated with which of the following?
Social learning theory
908 - The test facilitates the understanding of the tendencies of the child in his relationships with the most important figures around him
CAT-A
909 - the test has uniformity of procedure in administration and scoring
Standardized
910 - The test is useful as part of a comprehensive study of personality and in the interpretation of behavior disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, neuroses, and psychoses.
TAT
911 - The text defines social psychology as the scientific study of how people ..... one another.
think about, influence, and relate to
912 - The Thalamus is involved in
sensory perception and sleep
913 - The thalamus serves which of the following functions?
all of the above
914 - The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) is released Morgan and Murray at Harvard University.
1935
915 - the theorist who believes that children have one prime attachment - usually the mother
Bowlby
916 - The theorist who is credited as the "Father of Psychology?"
Wilhelm Wundt
917 - The theorist who proposed the Social Identity Theory was named:
Tajfel
918 - The theory based on Freud's ideas was.....
Psychoanalysis
919 - The theory of color vision based on the idea that we possess three distinct receptor areas for the three primary colors of light is the ________________?
trichromatic theory
920 - The theory of forgetting that stresses the similarity of items in memory is _________________?
interference
921 - The theory of personality in which "basic anxiety" is the primary concept was associated with the name ____________?
None of these
922 - The theory of reconstructive memory suggests that
memory is not an exact copy of an experience
923 - The theory of Selective Attention was proposed by ______________?
Broadbent
924 - The theory that challenged Helmholtz’s theory of color vision is _______________?
opponent-process theory
925 - The theory that memory retrieval fails due to normal metabolic processes over time that occur in the brain is.....
Decay Theory
926 - the theory that people of different ages tend to think differently about certain issues because of different formative experiences
generational identity
927 - The theory that we can explain someone's behavior based off their situation or disposition.
Attribution theory
928 - The theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition is
Attribution Theory
929 - The theory which suggests that people learn attitude by observing their own behavior is __________?
Self-perception
930 - The therapy of psychoanalysis was developed by
Sigmund Freud
931 - The thing that the researcher deliberately changes in an experiment is called the
Independent Variable
932 - The thing that the researcher deliberately changes or manipulates in an experiment is called the
Independent Variable
933 - The things you have in your conscious mind at any one moment are held in your
working memory
934 - The third step of the scientific method; the researcher tries to find out why a phenomenon occurs by completing an experiment
test hypothesis
935 - The thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experiences privately but that cannot be observed directly
mental processes
936 - The three basic interrelated conditions of the characteristics of experiments are
Control, Randomization, Replication
937 - The three experimental designs are:
Repeated Measures, Matched Participants & Independent Groups
938 - The three fundamental processes of memory are
encoding, storage and retrieval
939 - The three main part of the brain are the:
hindbrain, midbrain and forebrain
940 - The three processes involved in social identity theory involve all of the following except:
Connection
941 - The three processes of memory is similar to a computer. In order, list the three processes of memory.
encoding, storage, retrieval
942 - The three small bones in the ear. Also known as the hammer, anvil, and stirrup
All of the above
943 - The three stages of memory (in the correct order) are:
Encoding, storage, retrieval
944 - The three stages of the memory process (in the correct order) are:
Encoding, storage, retrieval
945 - The three steps in memory information processing are
encoding, storage, retrieval.
946 - The three steps in memory information processing are ____________________?
encoding, storage, retrieval
947 - The three steps of the information processing model of memory are
encoding, storage and retrieval
948 - The three types of long term memory are:
Episodic, semantic, procedural
949 - The three types of research designs used in Psychology are:
experiment, quantitative, qualitative
950 - The threshold for vision is
the flame of a candle 50km away on a clear, dark night.
951 - The thyroid gland control ______________?
metabolism
952 - The time after Aristotle, and the development of Christianity, and then Islam, saw the period of called the Dark Ages until the Renaissance Period. Why was this so?
There was little advancement in philosophy, science and theology but there was widespread practice of magic, astrology and forced religious conversion.
953 - The tiny gap between neurons where nerve impulses are sent from one neuron to another. It is where communication occurs between an axon and dendrite
synapse
954 - The tip-of-tongue phenomenon is due to a difficulty in ________________?
retrieval
955 - The tip-of-tongue phenomenon is due to a difficulty in __________________?
retrieval
956 - The title of a song is on the tip of Gerard's tongue, but he cannot recall it until someone mentions the songwriter's name. Gerard's initial inability to recall the title was most likely caused by
retrieval failure.
957 - The total number of times that Mr. Z's dog, Chance, wants to go outside each day is an example of which schedule of reinforcement
variable ratio
958 - The totality of all the mental abilities that give people the ability to solve whatever problems they think are worth working on.
intelligence
959 - the totality of the stimuli that impinge on a receptor or an individual at a given time.
Sensory System
960 - the training of an organism to remove or terminate an unpleasant stimulus
escape conditioning
961 - the training of an organism to respond so as to prevent the occurrence of an unpleasant stimulus
avoidance conditioning
962 - The training or ability necessary to satisfactorily perform a job.
Hard Skills
963 - The training procedure used in the Pepperberg was based on the concept of ..... by .....
modeling; Bandura
964 - The Trait theory attempts to:
describe and classify people in terms of their predispositions to behave in certain ways
965 - The transactional model of stress and coping holds that an event is assessed as stressful, beneficial or irrelevant at the ..... stage.
primary appraisal
966 - The transduction of light energy into nerve impulses takes place in the _____________?
retina
967 - The transformation of energy from environmental stimuli by specialized receptor cells in sensory organs into neural messages.
Sensory transduction
968 - The transforming of information so the nervous system can process it.
Encoding
969 - The translation of Russian word ouslovny means
Conditioned
970 - the transparent part of the outer covering of the eye, through which light first passes.
Cornea
971 - The 'trial and error' theory of learning was propounded by
Thorndike
972 - The Two Factory Theory of Intelligence states intelligence is measured by which two factors.....
General intelligence (problem solving) and specific abilities (verbal and math skills)
973 - The two genes in a specific pair are the same?
Homozygous
974 - The two key characteristics of the concrete operational stage (7 - 11 years) are:
Conservation and classifying
975 - The two main divisions of the central nervous system are the
brain and the spinal cord.
976 - The two main Key Cognitive Accomplishments of the formal operational stage are:
Idealistic thinking and abstract thinking
977 - The two main types of psychology include basic research and ..... psychology.
applied
978 - The two major divisions of the nervous system are the
peripheral and central nervous systems
979 - The two members of a gene pair are called _________________?
alleles
980 - The two theories on how hypnotism works are
Divided consciousness and social influence
981 - The two types of Inferential Statistics is
T- test and analysis of variance
982 - The two ways to describe a data are
measures of central tendency and measures of variability, or dispersion.
983 - The two-word stage of language development is also known as
telegraphic speech
984 - The type of development that developmental psychologists focus on is
all of the above
985 - The type of learning that is unique for human is _________________?
verbal learning
986 - the type of memory retrieval in which a person is required to identify an object, idea, or situation as one he or she or has not experienced before
recognition
987 - the type of memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material without the aid of or with very few external cues
recall
988 - The type of memory with large capacity and brief duration is __________________?
sensory memory
989 - The type of observation done without knowledge of the participants is called.....(researchers remain hidden)
Covert observation
990 - The type of observation where some variables are regulated by the researcher.
Controlled
991 - the type of perception in which used in judging the distance is
motion paraalax
992 - The type of psychology which study how people interact with others and how this affects them
Social psychology
993 - The type of psychology which study the criminal cases
Forensics
994 - The type of sample where subgroups in the target population are represented proportionally
stratified sample
995 - The type of study construction in which different subjects at different developmental levels are compared is a _____________?
cross-sectional study
996 - The type of variable that responds to the experiment and is what you measure to determine if your hypothesis is true.
Dependent
997 - The type of variable that you change or manipulate in an experiment. It is what you are testing.
Independent
998 - The typical research articlecontains four sections. Whichitem is not included in aresearch article?
author biography
999 - The unconscious mind influences everything we do.
Psychodynamic perspective
1000 - The underlying assumption of perception-action loop being constant, requires the all trials of an experiment usually be conducted within about ..... hours.
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