PY 425 Trivia

When not active, neurons have a negative electrical charge. This is referred to as:

Specific knowledge regarding important events during World War II is an example of:

What does Piaget call the process of changing or modifying a schema in response to environmental factors?

Good clinical interviewers tend to:

Myelin is like the:

Harlow’s research with infant monkeys demonstrated that:

The fact that Little Albert learned fear toward not only a white rat but also a ball of wool and a rabbit represents:

The current view is that a mental disorder is caused by:

A relatively permanent change in behavior that is not due to maturation but is due to experience is called:

A scatterplot is a good graph for showing a:

Visual acuity reaches adult levels in a child:

What is the name of the theory that behaviors that lead to rewarded outcomes will be repeated?

Which of the following factors is NOT a cause of deindividuation?

The strange-situation test was designed to allow psychologists to assess:

When a researcher who is collecting data does NOT know a study’s hypothesis, the study is a:

Attributions are our attempts to explain:

A(n) _____ provides an explanation of how an observable phenomenon works.

Damage to this brain area would have a profound impact on motor learning.

What are the branchlike appendages that detect chemical signals from neighboring neurons?

Cells that fire together,

This brain structure is associated with the formation of memories:

Which of the following structures is important for experiencing reward?

When the conditioned response is weakened is no longer presented with the unconditioned stimulus, this is called:

Before psychologists can begin a research project, they must receive approval from:

When a researcher manipulates a variable to see what effect the manipulation has on behavior, the design involves:

Negative feelings, opinions, and beliefs associated with a stereotype are referred to as:

When identifying the pool of participants who will be in a research project, psychologists generally use:

In _____, the presence of others may lead to increased arousal and enhanced performance.

Getting paid monthly is what type of reinforcement schedule?

Conditioned food aversions are especially likely to occur when the stimulus is a(n):

Relationships are promoted by:

The process by which an environmental stimulus and a behavior are connected is known as:

Trying to remember something by continuously repeating it is called:

The central route to persuasion is one in which:

Women in developing countries (e.g., India) experience more _____ than women in developed countries.

Cognitive structures that help us perceive, organize, process, and use information are referred to as:

The tendency to overemphasize personality and underestimate the situation is referred to as:

All of the following are mood disorders EXCEPT:

The gland that controls the release of hormones in the endocrine system is the:

An afferent neuron carries information:

To maximize the change that experimental and control groups are similar before treatment starts, researchers use:

The imitation of observed behavior is known as

_____ attitudes influence feelings and behavior on an unconscious level.

Morphemes are:

When a researcher joins a social group and talks to members in order to study that group, the approach is referred to as

Passionate love is characterized by:

An extensive study of a single person or a few people is characteristic of:

If you want to know how far apart scores in a data set tend to be, you could use the:

What neuronal process does the NMDA receptor facilitate?

From Erikson’s point of view, what is the major goal of development during the adolescent period?

In the _____, people will be more likely to agree with a small request after they have refused a large request.

This type of study can be described as a “study of studies”:

The main reason that people make “just-world hypothesis” attributions is that these attributions:

Which of the following actions is NOT associated with low levels of serotonin in people?

If you list a set of scores from lowest to highest, then take the middle value to indicate what is a typical score, its:

The diathesis-stress model of mental disorders focuses on:

The more social fears someone with social phobia has, the more likely:

Aggression may be influenced by:

One consequence of suffering from persistent panic attacks is a(n):

Gambling on a slot machine involves rewards on a ___ schedule.

Drugs that block the effects of neurotransmitters by occupying their receptor sites are called:

When people are aware of being observed, they might change their behaviors. This phenomenon illustrates

The spinal cord is part of the _____ nervous system.

Chemical substances that carry messages from one neuron to the next are called:

What is the developmental stage that occurs from conception to approximately 2 weeks after?

People suffering obsessive-compulsive disorder are:

Phenotype refers to the:

The memory of your wedding day is an example of a(n):

Learning that takes place in the absence of reinforcement is known as:

The mean, median, and mode are all examples of:

A infant will turn and suck when an object is placed near her mouth. What is this called?

Food is considered a primary reinforcer, while ___ is a secondary reinforcer

To create hostility and prejudice between two groups of boys for his study, Sherif:

Stanley Milgram’s experiment illustrated the phenomenon of:

In Pavlov’s experiments, what was the conditioned response?

Which of the following items is NOT an example of an analogical representation?

Which of the following terms is used to describe the removal of a stimulus?

The cross-sensory experience of tasting a visual image or seeing particular words in color is called:

What anxiety disorder is seen as an acquired fear that is out of proportion to the real threat?

A critical property of insight is that the solution to the problem:

Which of the following two anxiety disorders are most similar?

Behaving in a way that confirms stereotypes is referred to as:

The development of a theory of mind is linked to development in which area of the brain?

The notion of kin selection argues that we are:

The process by which a person needs more of a drug to achieve the same effect is called:

The correlation between stress and sleep is probably:

The phrase adrenaline rush refers to the action of the neurotransmitter:

The tendency to make memories consistent with current beliefs is:

Better memory for items presented at the beginning of a list and at the end of the list is referred to as:

Gottman has found that a marriage that has _____ positive as negative interactions is in good shape.

The process of getting information out of memory storage is called:

Processing multiple types of information at the same time is referred to as:

If a researcher wants to judge whether the data from her sample would be like data in the population, she would use:

The variable that a researcher manipulates in an experiment is called the:

What characteristic makes a psychopathology different from an everyday problem?

Sources of information who are _____ tend to be the most persuasive.

Which of the following are symptoms of PTSD?

When researchers study multiple groups and report the means for each group, they are reporting:

Receiving a reduced jail sentence for good behavior is a form of:

Object permanence is a child’s awareness that: