2019 Semester Review Final

Question 1

Connects the two hemispheres

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corpus collusum

Question 2

Punishment must be administered __ in order to be effective

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consistently

Question 3

A measure of variability in data

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Standard deviation

Question 4

Brief electrical charge traveling down the axon

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action potential

Question 5

The capacity of working memory is about ____ items

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7

Question 6

Negative punishment is sometimes referred to as

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omission training

Question 7

The variable that results from the manipulation in an experiment

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Dependent variable

Question 8

Occurs when an extraneous variable makes it difficult to sort out the effects of the IV

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Confounding of variables

Question 9

Adopted children's personality resembles who?

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biological parents

Question 10

An in-depth, generally subjective, investigation of an individual subject

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Case study

Question 11

The 3 memory stages, in order of processing are:

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sensory, working, long term

Question 12

Noam Chomsky believed that language was

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attributable to nature

Question 13

The concept of __ was denoted by the symbol "g" by Charles Spearman

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general intelligence

Question 14

Any variables other than the IVs that seem likely to influence the DV in an experiment

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Extraneous/Confounding variables

Question 15

The group in an experiment that is exposed to manipulation of the independent variable

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Experimental group

Question 16

__ refers to any system that encodes, stores and retrieves information

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memory

Question 17

Distribution of subjects in experiment i/w each has equal chance of being assigned to any group

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Random assignment

Question 18

This approach views behavior as driven by powerful inner forces and conflicts from our past.

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psychodynamic

Question 19

Filters incoming stimuli

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reticular formation

Question 20

A condition or event that an experimenter manipulates in order to observe its impact

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Independent variable

Question 21

Research method in which IVs are manipulated and which permits causal interpretation

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Experiment

Question 22

H.M. lost the ability to create new memories after his surgery, and is suffering from

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anterograde amnesia

Question 23

Which perspective would be most likely to examin humans' genetic makeup

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biological

Question 24

The statistic that indicates the degree and direction of relationship between variables

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Correlation coefficient

Question 25

An eye blink is an example of

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Unconditioned Response

Question 26

Called the master gland

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Pituitary

Question 27

Ability for the brain to change when damaged

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plasticity

Question 28

A producer who receives a monthly check is working according to a _ schedule of reinforcement

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fixed interval

Question 29

The descriptors "positive and negative" when used in reference to reinforcers mean:

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add and remove

Question 30

The group in an experiment that is not exposed to manipulation of the independent variable

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Control group

Question 31

A larger group from which a sample is drawn and to which the researcher wishes to generalize

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Population

Question 32

Carl Rogers was one of the founders of this school of psychological thought.

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humanistic

Question 33

____ are consequences that alter the likelihood of behaviors

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rewards and punishments

Question 34

Part of the neuron that receives messages

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dendrite

Question 35

A Freudian analyst would interpret a church going person that believes premarital sex as a sin as being ruled by their

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SuperEgo

Question 36

Responses are reinforced after a varying amount of time, the schedule is

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variable interval

Question 37

Wilhelm Wundt founded this

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First psychology lab

Question 38

Part of limbic system that processes memory

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hippocampus

Question 39

When something happens to you that is out of your control

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External Locus of Control

Question 40

Describes the cerebral cortex

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cerebrum, Enables perceiving, thinking, speaking

Question 41

B.F. Skinner's early work was inspired by law of effect, which was created by

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Edward Thorndike

Question 42

Occurs when a researcher's expectations influence the results of a study

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Experimenter bias

Question 43

Which perspective would examine humans' genetic makeup and how that may influence behavior?

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biological

Question 44

The arithmetic average

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Mean

Question 45

A guitarist uses _____ to recall how to play the notes of a specific song

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procedural

Question 46

According to Freud, thoughts too unsettling to acknowledge are

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Repressed

Question 47

Descriptive statistic & measure of central tendency; exact halfway point of data distribution

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Median

Question 48

An example of _ is a person who expects to do poorly on a math test and then does poorly

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self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 49

concepts:

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cannot be directly observed by researchers

Question 50

After missing a put on the golf course, Jessica yells at her golf club

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Regression

Question 51

The principles of psychoanalysis were first outlined by:

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Sigmund Freud

Question 52

______ came up with the idea of Collective Unconscious

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Jung

Question 53

You hit the off button on your alarm clock. the ending of the obnoxious sound act as an

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negative reinforcement

Question 54

Research strategy i/w neither subjects nor experimenters know which condition subjects are in

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Double-blind procedure

Question 55

A link or association between variables such that one can be predicted from the other

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Correlation

Question 56

This lobe contains the sensory cortex

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parietal

Question 57

Part of NS that controls voluntary movement

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somatic nervous system

Question 58

Covering the axon; speeds neural transmission

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myelin sheath

Question 59

This lobe controls hearing

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temporal

Question 60

Your memory of spring break is an example of

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episodic memory

Question 61

The score that occurs most frequently

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Mode

Question 62

______ occurs when you yell at your dog after receiving an "F" on a math test

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Displacement, Individualization

Question 63

What's the problem with many foreign language programs offered in the US?

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begin to late

Question 64

While walking down a dark alley, you jump at a loud noise. This is not considered learning b/c

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jumping is merely a reflex

2019 Semester Review Final

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2019 Semester Review Final

Questions 76