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The correlation coefficient...
Is a government conspiracy
Has nothing to do with correlation
Always goes before a or d in the correlation equation
Is an index of two things' relationship (-1 to +1)
2
Seeking the causes of behavior in genes, the brain, and the nervous and endocrine systems is...
The hormonal approach
Biomedical sociology
Biological psychology
Clinical psychology
3
Is it ethical to not debrief someone?
Yeah, if they weren't in the experiment
Yes, debriefing is actually illegal in most countries
Debriefing is rude and can be hurtful and humiliating
No, you must always debrief every person
4
The study of the methods and techniques used to gain psychological knowledge is called
Psychological studies
AP Pyschology
Psychometrics
This study has no formal name
5
Scatterplots are for...
Showing dots that represent the values of 2 variables
Scattering evidence to make a data scavenger hunt
Showing dependent variables on their own
Scattering seeds in plots of land
6
Natural selection is a part of...
Humanistic psychology
The Purge
Behavioral psychology
Evolutionary psychology
7
Experimental psychologists regularly...
Apply experimental methods to the study of behavior
Participate in science fairs
Use experimental knowledge to solve practical problems
Take part in wiccan rituals
8
What is the absolute threshold?
What you walk over to enter a door
Minimal amount of energy required to produce any sensation
Someone's ability to sense muscle movement and posture
Just noticeable difference
9
The most frequently occurring score in a distribution is the...
Average
Mean
Mode
Maximum
10
This occurs when increasingly larger doses are needed for the same effect to occur.
Opiate use
Psychoactive drug use
Tolerance
You keep taking more until the world supply is exhausted
11
Plasticity is...
The growth of the Broca's or Wernicke's areas
The brain's ability to change by reorganizing after damage
Only applicable to the corpus callosum
A form of aphasia
12
Which nervous system makes you nervous?
The scary one
Endocrine
Sympathetic
Parasympathetic
13
Functionalism was most closely associated with...
William James
Formal functions
Pseudo-psychology
Vassily Kuragin
14
Counseling psychologists...
Help people make/adjust to life changes
Advise experimenters
Work on councils
Counsel those suffering from severe mental illnesses
15
What is a case study?
When one person is studied to reveal universal principles
A survey given to over 200 people
A study to improve luggage efficiency
A study on rats that takes place inside a small box
16
What do surveys ascertain?
Service information
Surgical procedures
Scientific facts determined in a lab experiment
Self-reported attitudes or behaviors
17
Should I have a question for every vocab word, or have I been sacrificing quality for quantity?
It'll end up 1000 questions but you have to suffer for art
Aww thanks for giving us a free right answer
Stop you're being so annoying you're not funny
Idc do what you wnat
18
The placebo effect...
Takes place in Bo
Is when one takes sugar pills to increase energy levels
Is when experimental results are caused by expectations
We don't talk about the placebo effect.
19
What is the controversy over genes' and experiences' impacts on development
Mature vs nurture
Nature vs untrue
There is no such controversy
Nature vs nurture
20
What is size constancy?
A vision problem caused by sensorineural hearing loss
The number of complete wavelengths in a given time
It's explained by the Young-Helmholtz theory
Perception of an object as same size regardless of distance
21
What is the median?
The middle score in a distribution
The minimum
A strip of land between lanes
What isn't the median?
22
What is an electroencephalogram?
A positron emission tomography with electricity
A lesion
Basically the same thing as a computed tomography scan
Recording of electrical activity on the brain's surface
23
What are efferent neurons also called?
Autonomic nervous system
Motor neurons
Somatic nervous system
Afferent neurons
24
A double-blind procedure...
Doesn't let participants or researchers know who has the IV
Is inclusive to those with disabilities
Features excessively covered windows
Includes a placebo
25
Not blindly accepting arguments and conclusions is called...
Bias
Critical thinking
Hypothesizing
Theorizing
26
Clinical psychology emphasizes...
Behavior in doctors' offices
Mental health and mental illness
Mental health and classical conditioning
Latent dream content
27
A functional MRI can reveal...
Only motor cortex activity
Only somatosensory cortext activity
The limbic system
Blood flow
28
Freud was most involved in...
Social structure in ant colonies
Structuralism
Psychometrics
Psychodynamic psychology
29
What is a perceptual set?
Extrasensory perception
Accomodation
A set of things to perceive
A mental predisposition to perceive one thing, not another
30
What is the law of effect?
Positive reinforcement has good effects
Primary reinforcers are different from secondary reinforcers
Negative reinforcement has bad effects
If a behavior has a good consequence, it'll be repeated
31
Confounding variables are...
Factors other than the IV that could impact results
The variables you were looking for all along
Variables you find
Variables you found
32
On January 27th, a man died after the strong magnetic force of ______ trapped him.
A computed tomography scanner
Love
Glial cells
A magnetic resonance imaging machine
33
Correlation...
Is a Greek vegetarian dish made from small pebbles and moss
Has 3 R's in it
Definitely equals causation
Is a measure of the extent to which 2 factors vary together
34
Samples should be...
No more than 3 people
Chosen to reflect what the experimenter wants
Random
Not included in experiments
35
Which phenomenon is involved with perceiving objects as constant shapes, size, and lightness?
Perceptual consistancy
Perceptual adaptation
Phi phenomenon
Color constancy
36
What do behaviorists believe?
Psychology is the study of behavior, not mental processes
Behaviors are caused by the id
Behavior is not related to conventional psychology
Psychology should study how mental processes cause behaviors
37
When do alpha waves occur?
While awake and relaxed
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 1
38
Which gland is in the endocrine system?
Pituitary
Adrenal
Both
Neither
39
What is memory?
Memes
Dreams
Storage and retrieval of information
Encoding
40
Dual processing has to do with...
Genes and heritability
DNA
Conscious and unconscious brain activity
Chromosomes
41
Industrial-organizational psychologists...
Large organizations
Study how to increase productivity in workplaces
Organization of factories
Social impacts of industrialization
42
Structuralism was pioneered by...
Wilhelm Wundt
Aristotle
Martin Seligman
William James
43
The branch of medicine that involves medical treatments for psychological problems is called...
Psychodynamics
Psychometrics
Psychiatry
The physical perspective
44
Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner studied...
Behaviorism
Little Albert
Learning
Conditioning
45
Select a hearing theory.
Weber's law
Frequency theory
Gate-control theory
Place theory
46
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes is...
Behavioral psychology
Psycho-socialism
Psychology
The cognitive-behavioral perspective
47
The mean is...
Not the answer
A bully
The average
A supervillain
48
The actual events in a dream are called...
Manifest content
Latent content
Inception
Dreams don't actually exist
49
A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance is...
Debriefing
The mean
Statistical significance
A bit rude
50
What is classical conditioning?
An unconditioned response
An unconditioned stimulus
Learning that takes place when 2 or more stimuli are paired
Conditioned stimuli and responses
51
An explanation using an integrated set of principles
Correlation
Hypothesis
Operational definition
Theory
52
Which experimental factor is manipulated?
Brenda
Independent variable
Confounding variable
Dependent variable
53
This research method involves an IV manipulated by an investigator
Experiment
Survey
Case study
Random assignment
54
Priming is an example of...
Transduction
An Edward Hering color vision theory
Sensory adaptation
Subliminal perception
55
What is the range? (choose the best possible answer)
Not this one
Where a cowboy lives
A line of mountains
The difference between the highest and lowest values
56
What is a normal curve?
A shape that shows the distribution of many types of data
Abnormal, but somewhat curvaceous
(1/√(2πσ2))e((x-μ)^2)/(2σ^2)
A standard deviation
57
An operational definition is...
The definition of a research variable
The process by which one defines operations
The name of an operation
An in-depth explanation of a hypothesis
58
What is latent learning?
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
Learning that is solely based on mirror neurons
Making a cognitive map
Learning that occurs but is not apparent
59
A testable prediction
Independent variable
Theory
Hypothesis
Replication
60
What is a control group?
The group that receives the DV
A committee that designs experiments
The group that does not receive the IV
The people in charge of an experiment
61
Parallel processing is...
Sensation of several aspect of a problem simultaneously
The opposite of pitch
A sensation that is linear and never intersects
Processing of several aspects of a problem simultaneously
62
Which of these psychologists has to do with naturalistic observation?
Maybe the naturalistic observation was inside you all along
Naturalistic observation doesn't actually exist
Jane Goodall
Albert Bandura
63
What is a discriminative stimulus?
Bigoted
Elicits a response after association with reinforcement
Behind the times
Stimulating
64
Human factors psychologists...
Study human-related trivia
Believe in the Schachter Two-Factor Theory
Apply information about human behavior to design
Factor humans in to experiments done on rodents
65
The perception of a relationship where none exists is...
Embarrassing, I thought you wanted to be more than friends
Correlation
Hindsight bias
Illusory correlation
66
The "I knew it all along" phenomenon is...
Hindsight bias
Common mental state in early stages of cognitive development
Critical thinking
This is not a real phenomenon
67
What is sleep apnea?
When people are susceptible to posthypnotic suggestions
When a person repeatedly stops breathing while sleeping
A type of night terror
A depressant that inhibits neural arousal centers
68
Which schedule of reinforcement gets the best results?
Variable-ratio
Fixed-ratio
Variable-interval
Fixed-interval
69
Psychologists who apply knowledge from experiments to practical problems
Experimental psychologists
Problem-application psychologists
Applied research psychologists
Sigmund Freud
70
Pseudo-psychology is...
Psychiatry
The one true religion
The psychological perspective of Nemo Pseudo
Erroneous assertions set forth as scientific psychology
71
What are endorphins?
Central nervous system
Neurotransmitters that control pain and pleasure
Peripheral nervous system
Sensory/afferent neurons
72
Amphetamines are...
Ancient Scottish rites involving potato sacrifice
Stimulants
Depressants
Hallucinogens
73
What is positive punishment?
Positively reinforcing close behaviors to a desired behavior
When you're immediately rewarded for a behavior
Removing something so behavior won't reoccur
Adding something decreasing likelihood of behavior occurring
74
How long is a circadian rhythm?
1 hour
Cicadas are not rhythmic
1.5 hours
24 hours
75
Processing that starts with basic sensory information is...
Top-down
An example of signal detection theory
Based on hue
Bottom-up
76
What is introspection?
A method of self-observation
Looking in a high-power mirror
Looking inside a patient with a small camera
Introversion
77
The variable that changes as the result of the IV is...
Hopefully nothing
Not yet
The confounding variable
The dependent variable
78
What is informed consent?
Knowing the mean
A good education
People are told enough to decide if they want to participate
Debriefing
79
A standard deviation is...
Nerd stuff
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean
Mean
Wrong because deviation from the norm is bad
80
What is a population?
The group that receives the independent variable
In the US it's approximately 326 million
Idk, but definitely don't draw samples from it
All the cases in a group being studied
81
Which of the following is used to see if findings of a study extend to other circumstances?
Random samples
Surveys
Replication
Case studies
82
What are delta waves?
Waves that keep you awake during insomnia
Deep sleep waves in stages 3 and 4
Waves that cause REM Rebound
Waves that keep you awake during narcolepsy
83
Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance is...
Irresponsible
A random sample
Random assignment
A double-blind procedure
84
Jean Piaget was a _______ psychologist who studied ___________.
Cognitive, learning in primates
Psychodynamic, id development
Cognitive, cognitive development of children
Humanist, children's potential
85
This approach involved careful observations and scientifically based research
Empirical approach
Purely scientific discovery
Functionalism
Introspection
86
What is spontaneous recovery?
Sudden reversal of extinction
Sudden learned helplessness
A result of operant conditioning
A neutral stimulus
87
Wavelength is...
The difference between high and low tide
The length between waves in a body of water
Distance from the peak of one light/sound wave to another
Intensely perceived
88
What is conduction hearing loss caused by?
Nothing, it doesn't exist
Damage to the mechanical system that conducts sound waves
Abnormal brain waves
Electrical currents
89
Which of the following is the level of stimulation needed to trigger a neural impulse?
Neurotransmitters
Threshold
Neuron
Action potential
90
What is humanism?
The belief that humans do not exist
The belief that humans exist
A viewpoint emphasizing human potential and free will
A viewpoint emphasizing lack of free will
