PY 425 Trivia

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

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

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

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

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

Cells that fire together,

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

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

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

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

People suffering obsessive-compulsive disorder are:

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

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

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

Trying to remember something by continuously repeating it is called:

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

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

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

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

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

Good clinical interviewers tend to:

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

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

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

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

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

The spinal cord is part of the _____ nervous system.

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

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

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

All of the following are mood disorders EXCEPT:

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

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

Object permanence is a child’s awareness that:

Aggression may be influenced by:

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

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

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

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

The diathesis-stress model of mental disorders focuses on:

Passionate love is characterized by:

_____ attitudes influence feelings and behavior on an unconscious level.

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

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

The central route to persuasion is one in which:

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

Phenotype refers to the:

Myelin is like the:

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

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

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

Relationships are promoted by:

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

What characteristic makes a psychopathology different from an everyday problem?

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

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

A scatterplot is a good graph for showing a:

Harlow’s research with infant monkeys demonstrated that:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visual acuity reaches adult levels in a child:

The imitation of observed behavior is known as

What neuronal process does the NMDA receptor facilitate?

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

Stanley Milgram’s experiment illustrated the phenomenon of:

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

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

An afferent neuron carries information:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tendency to make memories consistent with current beliefs is:

Which of the following two anxiety disorders are most similar?

The notion of kin selection argues that we are:

Which of the following are symptoms of PTSD?

Getting paid monthly is what type of reinforcement schedule?

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

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

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

The correlation between stress and sleep is probably:

This brain structure is associated with the formation of memories:

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

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

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

Which of the following structures is important for experiencing reward?

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

Attributions are our attempts to explain:

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

Morphemes are: