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Jeopardy Introduction to psychology 100 – Studying organisms in their native surroundings. (naturalistic observation) 200 – A scientist is testing the affect of anxiety on test performance. What is the independent variable? (anxiety) 300 – There is a correlation value of +0.62 between amount of time running in place the night before the test and test grade. What does this mean? (the more one runs in place the night before a test, the higher the test score – however, this does NOT mean that running in place necessarily causes higher test score or vice versa) 400 – What is the difference between random sampling and random assortment? (random sampling is randomly picking subjects from your test population, random assortment is randomly placing them into the different treatment groups) 500 – What does standard deviation measure? (how far the scores vary from the mean) General neurobiology 100 – What do we call the chemicals that diffuse across the synapse? (neurotransmitters) 200 – Name the three parts of a neuron. (axon, dendrite, and cell body (or soma) 300 – What is the difference between an afferent and efferent neuron? (afferent neurons take info toward the CNS (sensory neurons) and efferent neurons carry info away from the CNS (motor neurons) 400 – What is the difference between and agonist and an antagonist? (agonist mimics a NT, while antagonist blocks NT) 500 – What is depolarization? (It is the stimulation of the neuron; sodium ions travel in and membrane potential becomes more positive) Parts of the Brain 100 – What is the function of the amygdala? (fear and aggression) 200 – What lobe of the cerebral cortex contains the auditory cortex and Wernicke’s area? (left temporal lobe) 300 -- What part of the cerebral cortex is primarily involved in judgment and planning? (frontal lobe) 400 – What part of the brain regulates drives, such as hunger, thirst, and sex drive? Hint – it also contain the “pleasure center”. (hypothalamus) 500 – Name one thing that our right brain controls (the left side of the body, perception of emotions, spatial organization) Nature vs. Nurture 100 – Adopted children usually are more similar to their adoptive or biological parents in temperament? (biological) 200 – What is the difference between sex and gender? (sex is completely biologically determined and describes which sex organs you have, gender include sex, but also includes one’s culturally determined role) 300 – What are terratogens? (chemicals that can get through the placental barrier and harm a developing fetus) 400 – How would you test if a disease (such as schizophrenia) had a genetic component? (twin studies – either compare identical twins to fraternal twins OR examine twins reared together vs. twins reared apart) 500 –According to evolutionary psychologists, why are women less likely to initiate sex? (because women have a lower reproductive potential – fewer eggs, long gestation – and therefore, those who are predispositioned to be choosy about their mates were more likely to pass down their genes) Development 100 – What is a schema? (a concept or framework for organizing and interpreting information) 200 – During what stage of cognitive develop do children exhibit egocentrism? (preoperational) 300 – Which of Kohlberg’s stages of moral development are ethical issues decided based on rewards and punishments? (preconventional) 400 – What parenting style is correlation with the most self-assured children? (authoritative) 500 – What type of intelligence declines as people get older? (fluid intelligence) Sensation and Perception 100 – What is absolute threshold? (the minimum stimulus one can detect 50% of the time) 200 – What type of sensory neurons are most concentrated in the fovea? (cones) 300 – Name and define two binocular depth cues (convergence – how much eye muscles must contract inward for eyes to focus on an object; retinal disparity – how different the two images coming into each retina are.) 400 -- What is the organ for the vestibular sense? (semicircular canals) 500 – What is a perceptual set? (a mental predisposition to perceive something one way instead of another) Learning 100 – Name one difference between classical and operant conditioning (C – stimulus comes before, O -stimulus comes after; C – involuntary, O – voluntary) 200 – What scientist is famous for studying modeling? (Bandura) 300 – What is shaping? (rewarding behaviors that are ever closer to the desired behavior) 400 – What is the difference between negative reinforcement and punishment? (negative reinforcement increases frequency of a behavior, punishment decreases it) 500 – A telemarketer gets paid for every person who purchases an item. The number of phone calls and the amount of time she spends per call do not matter. What type of reinforcement schedule is this? (variable ratio) Memory 100 – What is the first stage of information processing? (encoding) 200 – According to the serial position effect, what information on a list are you most likely to forget? (the middle) 300 – What part of the brain is necessary for the formation of implicit memories? (cerebellum) 400 – Sometimes old information interferes with the learning of new information. What is this called? (proactive interference) 500 – What is repression? (also called motivated forgetting, it is the idea that we forget things that might cause us anxiety) Social Psychology 100 – Working harder in front of an audience (social facilitation) 200 – Psychologist who studied obedience by having subjects shock an accomplice. (Milgram) 300 – Enhancement of prevailing tendencies of a group following discussion (group polarization) 400 – theory that states that we act to reduce discomfort caused when thoughts and actions don’t align (cognitive dissonance theory) 500 – Loss of inhibition caused by anonymity and physiological arousal (deindividuation)