Psychology Mid-term

The opposite of acquisition is

According to Eric Erickson, a successful midlife transition for men fosters a sense of

Standardized measure of intelligence based on a scale in which 100 is average

The space between neurons is the

A set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific study

The skinner experiment is a demonstration of which psychological principle

The genetic transmission of characteristics from parents to their offspring

The _________ is closely related to the standard deviation

Stress that stems from acute anxiety or pressure

The _________ can excite a neurons or stop it from transmitting

The learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus

Learned reactions that follow one another in sequence, each reaction producing the signal for the next

The most commonly used measure of central tendency is the ______

According to Jean Piaget, which term refers to a child applying an existing scheme to a new object

Learning in which a certain action is reinforced/punished, resulting in corresponding increase or decrease in occurrence

Proposes that a persons intelligence involves analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills

Ranking of test scores that indicate the ratio of scores lower and higher than a given score

Psychologists call the internally programmed growth of a child

A psychologist who studies the function, rather than the structure, of consciousness

Psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior, feelings, and thoughts

Technique in which the desired behavior is “molded” by first rewarding any act similar to that behavior

The brain and spinal cord

Process of altering behavior by observing and imitating the behavior of others

Which of the following individuals would most likely believe that human nature is evolving and self directed

Training of an organism to remove or terminate an unpleasant stimulus

A young child’s inability to understand another persons perspective

When a dog chases some baby chicks, they run to their mother this demonstrates

At what age do children typically being to put words together to say things like “more cookie”

The ability of a test to measure what it’s intended to measure

How are quantitative research methods different from qualitative research methods

A psychologist who studies the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences

A chemical communication system, using hormones, by which messages are sent through the bloodstream

The pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake

neutral event that elicits a given response after a period of training in which its paired with a unconditioned stimulus

The ability to respond differently to similar but distinct stimuli

A change In a participants illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect

Psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in direction his or her future and achieving personal growth

The brain and spinal cord compromise the

Which of the following is an example of an unpredictable reinforcement schedule

Discovering ways to use scientific findings to accomplish practical goals

Positive stress, which results from motivating striving and challenges

The principle that a given quantity does not change when its appearance is changed

The ability of a test to give the same results under similar conditions

Which of the following groups would be most likely to experience the placebo effect

Why are questionnaires a popular way of conduction research

Inherited tendency of some newborn animals to follow the first moving object they see

Because he studied how people and animals adapt to their environment, William James is considered a

An infants clinging response to a touch on the palm of his or her hand

In ______ the material being taught is broken into a series of simpler units called frames

Responding similarly to a range of similar stimuli

The little Albert experiment is a demonstration of which psychological principle

An assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through scientific research

A stimulus that does not initially elicit any part of an unconditioned response

What question does inferential statistics attempt to answer

Training of an organism to respond so as to prevent the occurrence of an unpleasant stimulus

The chemicals released by neurons, which determine the rate at which other neurons fire

The listing and summarizing of data in a practical, efficient way

The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls voluntary movement of skeletal muscles

How is a condition stimulus similar to an unconditioned stimulus?

An infant who had developed object permanence

Which of the following best explains why the experiments of Wilhelmina Wundt are historically important in psychology

Numerical methods used to determine whether research data support a hypothesis or whether results were due to chance

Ones heartbeat is controlled by the

A learning procedure in which associations are made between a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus

The gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented w/o stimulus

An infants response in turning toward the source of touching that occurs anywhere around his or her mouth

Voluntary movements are controlled by the

At what point does an embryo or fetus have all its internal organs

Interpersonal and intrapersonal abilities needed to understand and use knowledge of emotions effectively

Proposes that a persons intelligence is composed of a general ability level and specific mental abilities

In which parenting style are children most likely to be encouraged to assume responsibility gradually as they mature

A hypothesis is

Psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how thought process influence our beh.

A measure of variability that is the mean of the squares of the deviations from the mean of the set of data

Specialists in this field evaluate teaching methods, devise tests, and develop new instructional devices

The administering and scoring of tests in the same way every time; establishing the average score made by a large group

An experiment in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know which participants received which treatment

Condition in which repeated attempt to control a situation fail, resulting in the belief that the situation is uncontrol

One way clinical psychologists differ from counseling psychologists is that

The process by which a child adopts the values and principles of the same-sex parent

Process of influencing behavior by means of unpleasant stimuli

Branching beyond the spinal cord into the body

A psychologist who uses the results of sleep research to solve a patient’s sleep problem is practicing

An event that elicits a certain predictable response typically without previous training

Which of these activities can a baby do first

A number that describes something about the “average” score of a distribution variance

Messages move to and from the brain along thin cells called

Cognitive development

How do cliques help adolescence with social development?

The Pavlov dog experiment is a demonstration of which psychological principle

psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the enviro..

The nerves that branch out from the spinal cord are the

Chemical substances that carry messages through the body in blood

How is a stratified sample similar to a random sample

An organisms automatic reacting to a stimulus

During young adulthood between the ages of 18 and 30