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Doing something for the enjoyment of the task/activity without an external reward

Variable-interval schedule

Dendrites do this

A substance that crosses the placenta and harms an unborn child is a(n)

Fixed-ratio schedule

This scatter plot shows

This sac in the neuron contains the neurotransmitters

What hormone seems to be most closely associated with aggressive behavior?

Memory is best defined as

An individual with damage to the Wernicke’s area is most likely to have difficulty

Erikson's young adulthood stage associated with finding a life partner to share everything with

This memory strategy would be best for remembering a phone number you need to call soon

Temperament is

Memories of well-learned skills such, as riding a bicycle, are classified as

Respond to a stimulus similar to a conditioned stimulus as if it was the conditioned stimulus

Pruning occurs when

Which of the following responses was most likely acquired through classical conditioning?

This diagram above depicts the human body’s

Fixed-interval schedule

Hypothetical and deductive thinking are most characteristic of Piaget's

Rewards to increase behaviors are part of

The self-reflective observation of one’s own sensations and feelings is called:

Increase a behavior by giving something

Which measure of central tendency is used to calculate your grade point average?

Giving rewards to someone who is already intrinsically motivated for a behavior could lead to

The association area that controls language expression & speech muscle movements

“The magical number seven, plus or minus two” refers to the storage capacity of ________ memory

Piaget's theory is based on __________ development

a cognitive map is

Decrease a behavior by taking away something good

Guidelines developed by the American Psychological Association make sure research participants

A gender role is

Limbic system (amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus, Hypothalamus) is most closely associated with

Self-defined ethical principals would be which stage of Kohlberg's Moral development?

Mirror Neurons do this

Decrease a behavior by giving something bad

Encoding that occurs with no effort or a minimal level of conscious attention is known as

An organism appears to learn a behavior without reinforcement as fast as one with reinforcement

Psychology is defined as the scientific study of

A hypothesis is a(n):

Increase a behavior by taking something away

Thorndike law that states responses leading to satisfying results = more likely to be repeated

The idea that the mind functions by combining objective sensations and subjective feelings

Variable-ratio schedule

The pituitary gland is controlled by the

If (____________?) then (__________?)

the unlearned, naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus

Our adaptive behaviors are learned and maintained because they help us be more effective

What was most influential in Loftus' memory construction studies about a car accident?

Kohlberg's stage based on avoiding punishment and concrete rewards

Which is not one of the three main concerns of developmental psychologists?

His monkey's preferred comfort to nourishment

a stimulus that unconditionally (naturally/automatically) triggers a response