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