Midterm Practice Fall 2020

The neuroscience perspective emphasizes that behavior is influenced by

Misinformation effect is a prime example of retroactive interference

Little Albert learned fear of all furry animals (and Santa) was an example of stimulus ___.

Harlow's research suggests that infants bond with caregivers for contact comfort

A child's learned fear at the sight of a hypodermic needle is a(n)

What is the main idea of humanistic psychology?

A negative correlation predicts that one variable increases as the other decreases (i.e. inverse relationship)

The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on...

Cognitive neuroscience is most directly concerned with studying connections between brain activity and thoughts.

Maturation is to education as ________ is to ________.

The placebo effect illustrates the impact of expectations on feelings and behaviors.

The myelin sheath is name of the electrical signal that travels down the axon of a neuron.

Classical conditioning enables us to learn that a CS (e.g., bell) predicts US (e.g., food).

Plasticity is the brain's capacity to change by forming new neural pathways based on experience.

What is psychology?

The scientific study of the links between biological and psychological processes is called

Which perspective suggests facial expressions are inherited and adaptive?

Human brains never get rid of unused neural networks- that is why "practice" doesn't matter

The term working memory represents psychologists' newer understanding of short term memory

Stranger Anxiety occurs around 8 months old due to difficulty assimilating unfamiliar faces into

Correlation is a measure of the extent to which two factors

The control group are are exposed to the drug that is being tested in an experiment.

In developmental psychology, "___" are the the potentials and limits in a person's genetic blueprint

The case study is a research method in which

Flow of Neuronal Impulse (start to finish)

Ainsworth's Strange Situation research demonstrated

Correlation proves causation (i.e., cause and effect).

During a "critical period" exposure to certain experiences is needed for normal development

Neurons are best described as

Which of the following is an unconditioned response?

Which of the following methods is most helpful for explaining cause-effect relationships?

Voluntary behaviors that produce rewarding or punishing outcomes are called operant behaviors

The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible all below except for

The ____variable is manipulated by the researcher and the dependent variable is measured.

The distinctive feature of the psychodynamic perspective is its emphasis on

The process of getting information out of memory is called encoding

A descriptive technique of monitoring and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without interfering

Mood congruent memory demonstrates that emotions are retrieval cues

A teratogen is an environmental toxin (virus, bacteria, drug, parasite) that cross placental barrier.