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Psychology Jeopardy Research Methods 100 – The part of the experiment that is manipulated by the experimenter (Independent variable) 200 – Research method by which people are unknowingly observed in their native environments (naturalistic observation) 300 – any inert substance given to the control group in an experiment (placebo) 400 --- Value of the correlation coefficient if there is a perfect relationship where as one variable goes up the other goes down (-1) 500 – A sample in which the trait examined varies symmetrically around the mean. (normal distribution) Neurobiology 100 – long extension of the neuron that carries an action potential (axon) 200 – Lobe of the cerebral cortex that contains the sensory cortex. (parietal) 300 – part of the limbic system that contains “pleasure centers”. (hypothalamus) 400 – Part of brain located in left temporal lobe that controls speech comprehension (Wernicke’s) 500 – Parkinson’s patients have lower than normal amounts of this neurotransmitter (dopamine) Development 100 – Studied moral development using the case study approach (Kohlberg) 200 – Adjusting one’s schema to fit new information (accommodation) 300 – Knowing that items continue to exist even when we no longer sense them (object permanence) 400 – Knowing that volume and area remain constant even if the shape of an object is changed (conservation) 500 – Type of intelligence that describes one’s ability to reason quickly and abstractly. (fluid) Sensation and Perception 100 – The part of the eye that focuses the light coming in (lens) 200 – According to the monocular depth cue, relative height, things closer appear to be _____. (lower) 300 – The sense of knowing the location of our limbs (kinesthesis) 400 – Focusing one’s attention of a particular stimulus and blocking out everything else. (selective attention) 500 – Distance of an object from our face is determined by how different the images from the two eyes are (retinal disparity) Learning 100 – The father of operant conditioning (Skinner) 200 – Another word for observational learning (modeling) 300 – sudden reappearance of an extinguished conditioned behavior following a rest period (spontaneous recovery) 400 – Reinforcers that are not innately satisfying, such as money (secondary) 500 -- promising a reward for doing what one already like to do causes one to lose their intrinsic motivation to do it. (over justification effect) Memory and Thinking 100 – A rule of thumb for solving a problem. (heuristic) 200 – the process of getting information out of memory storage (retrieval) 300 – the smallest distinctive unit of sound (phoneme) 400 – the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions (functional fixedness) 500 – According to the “forgetting curve”, the rate at which we forget things is _______________ at first. (high) Intelligence and States of Consciousness 100 – Sleep disorder in which a person falls suddenly and unexpectedly into REM sleep (narcolepsy) 200 – A measure of how well a test measures what it claims to test (validity) 300 – regular 24-hour bodily cycle (circadian rhythm) 400 – Any three of Gardiner’s multiple intelligences (interpersonal, verbal, spatial, kinesthetic, intrapersonal, naturalist, logical-mathematical, musical) 500 – Why is REM sleep called paradoxical sleep? (because the muscles are relaxed and still, but the mind and body are otherwise highly aroused) Personality 100 – According to Freud, this stage follows the oral stage (anal) 200 – According to Freud, the part of the personality that corresponds to the conscience (superego) 300 – The third level from the bottom on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (belongingness) 400 – Maslow’s term for the need to achieve one’s potential (self-actualization) 500 – The perception that chance or outside forces beyond one’s control determines one’s fate (external locus of control) Disorders and Therapy 100 – Disorder in which one worries all the time for no reason (generalized anxiety disorder) 200 – Name for the therapy style developed by Freud. (psychoanalysis) 300 – Alternating between periods of intense exuberance and severe depression. (bipolar) 400 – Roger’s therapy style (client-centered therapy) 500 – Chronic, low level depression that often lasts for years (dysthymic disorder) Motivation, Eating, and Social Psychology 100 – People are more likely to agree to a large request if they have already agreed to a small request. (foot-in-thedoor phenomenon) 200 – weight at which your body attempts to remain at by adjusting your metabolic rate (set point) 300 – Studied obedience by having subjects shock an accomplice. (Milgram) 400 – Loss of inhibition caused by anonymity and physiological arousal (deindividualization) 500 – What happens to rats if you lesion their ventromedial hypothalamus? (they overeat) Final Jeopardy Give category—The Brain Make written wager. Question (must write answer) Name the four lobes of the cerebral cortex, name one function of each, and indicate the location of each. Answer: Frontal (forehead area, judgment and planning, speech formation, controls movement of body) Occipital (back of head, vision) Temporal (sides of head, hearing, understanding language) Parietal (crown of head, sense of touch)