Intro to Psych Final Exam Review

The storage capacity of long-term memory is best described as

The brain is composed of two sides or __________, which control the opposite side of the body.

Learning is defined as:

Who conducted the Stanford Prison Study?

The intelligence of children is more heavily influenced by their biology or by their environment relates to what debate?

characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions

Parietal lobes=________, occipital lobes =____________

Two or more distinct personalities inhabit a person

Which of the following is most accurate about a typical night's sleep?

The occipital lobes are to ________ as the temporal lobes are to ________.

Authoritative parents are likely to have children who

You fail a test=test too hard, friend fails=friend didn't study

Consciousness is

According to Erikson, achieving a sense of identity is the special task of the

The parietal lobes are to ________ as the frontal lobe is to ________.

Psychologist Solomon Asch's study showed that

The Harlows' studies of infant monkeys raised with artificial mothers suggest that body contact promotes

Chronic sleep debt is most likely to promote

People suffering from cognitive dissonance are likely to

Anxiety disorder involving a persistent excessive or irrational fear

After being fired by your boss, you come home and yell at your dog. Freud would say you are using this defense mechanism

Which of the following plays an essential role in the processing of new memories?

You salivate after smelling chocolate chip cookies, this is explained by

Animal research has revealed a general reward system that triggers the release of the neurotransmitter

Psychologist Stanley Milgram's research showed that most people

The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was

a lack of conscious, feel and fear little

Neurosurgeons have severed the corpus callosum in human patients in order to reduce

REM sleep is called paradoxical sleep because

Asch asked people to identify which of three lines was identical to a standard line. His research studied

Circadian rhythm refers to

The fundamental attribution error: does not consider ___ and focuses on___

Deep sleep appears to play an important role in

Opiate drugs occupy the same receptor sites as

Expected behavior patterns associated with particular social positions are called

The most widely used system of psychological classification today is

Psychology is defined as

Which of the following is NOT one of the Big 5 Factors of Personality?

Many clinicians diagnose disorders by using criteria listed in the

A teratogen is a(n)

Which approach is concerned with assessing the relative impact of both nature and nurture on our psychology?

Little Albert was conditioned to fear a white rat, he also feared white rabbits, this is

The participants in Philip Zimbardo's simulated prison study

The human sleep cycle repeats every

You were grounded for being late, now you come home early, this is explained by

Intense, persistent feelings of anxiety caused by traumatic experience

Mood disorder involving a cycle of mood changes from depression to wild elation

Determining whether a person has a psychological disorder is based on whether their behavior