Psychology Final

Who conducted important research on color vision in the 1920's

Christine Ladd-Franklin

Because behavior therapies do not address important thoughts, they are often used in junction with?

Cognitive therapy

A neutral stimulus that has no effect until paired with the unconditioned stimulus, resulting in a conditioned reaction.

Conditioned stimulus

Daily hassles are a specific type of?

Conflict

One's awareness of both the external and internal environments refer to as?

Consciousness

B.F Skinner emphasized the importance of?

Consequences

What is part of Robert Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence

Creative intelligence

The process of analyzing and evaluating information and applying it to other situations is known as?

Critical thinking

A person who is prescribed a tricyclic drug has most likely been diagnosed with____?

Depression

A thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions

Divergent thinking

For Carl Jung, the persona and shadow are___?

Elements of ourselves that we either show or hide from the world

What is one of the 5 core traits in the five-factor trait theory?

Extraversion

The ability to share ones feelings openly is called?

Genuineness

Release of ___ triggers eating?

Ghrelin

Which brain structure is involved in the formation of myelin

Gila cells

Abraham Maslow did what kind of work?

Hierarchy of needs

Maintaining bodily processes at a state of equilibrium is known as achieving ____?

Homeostasis

Two main features of an experiment are

Hypothesis formation and data collection

The unconscious use of memory is called?

Implicit memory

The sympathetic nervous system activates a(n)____ response

Involuntary

The ability to sense the position of our body parts in space and in relation to one another is called?

Kinesthesis

What is a well developed, syntactical verbal system for representing the world?

Language

What ages do men and women peak?

Late 20's early 30's

Overactivity in what part of the brain can be associated with depression?

Lateral hypothalamus

Lawerence Kohlberg's work focus mostly on what kind of development?

Moral development

What has fuzzy boundaries?

Natural concepts

Alfred Binet administered his intelligence test he found?

Older children answered more then younger children

A type of learning where behavior is controlled by consequences

Operant learning

The three stages model proposes that memory stages happen in a ____ fashion?

Parallel

Seeing faces of religious figures in a normal object is an example of?

Pareidolia

Scientist use the term ___ to describe the nervous system's ability to change

Plasticity

When a test yields consistent results over time, it is said to be?

Reliable

In order for a test of intelligence to be accepted, it must be?

Reliable and valid

Refers to a person's belief that he or she accurately and objectively sees the world as it is

Replicability

Out of all the theories that explain why we forget, the most controversial is?

Repression

Which disorder is classified by the DSM-5 as a psychotic disorder?

Schizophrenia

The top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is the need for?

Self-Actualization

Echoic memories are a type of

Sensory memory

What kind of memory process sensations long enough to send them on to short term memory?

Sensory memory

Axons on neurons in the brain are typically____?

Shorter than those in peripheral nervous system

Fluid intelligence is most likely to involve?

Speed of learning

Anxiety when meeting new people or being around people you do not now

Stranger anxiety

Kanzi learned language by observing his mother learn the language in whose study?

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

How does the brain develop after adolescence?

The brain will continue to develop throughout life

Allows a psychoanalyst to gain insight into the client's relationships with significant others is?

The process of transference

Which theory proposed that dreaming is a way to rehearse responses to events that endanger our survival

Threat simulation theory

A psychoanalyst is ___?

Trained in Freud's methods of treatment

Heuristics can lead correct judgements TF

True

Shaping can be used effectively on animals and people TF

True

Stereotypes can often be helpful to us? TF

True

Carl rogers did what kind of work?

Unconditional positive regard

The parasympathetic nervous system activates a(n) ____ response

Voluntary

The opposite of a hardy personality would be___?

a Type B personality

What is primarily an inhibitory neurotransmitter

Acetylcholine

According to Adler, feelings of inferiority motivate us towards?

Achievement

Viability of the fetus is reached by?

24 weeks

When maintenance rehearsal is used, ___ is lost in only two days

75%

What type of therapy is most similar to rational-emotive therapy?

Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy

A behavior that is not typical or culturally accepted, it is called?

Abnormal

What kind of psychologist is most likely a therapist

An educational psychologist

Human personality appears to be the product of____?

An unknown factor that researchers have been unable to identify

Which structure is the middle part of the ear?

Anvil

Elaborative rehearsal involves trying to store something in long term memory by doing what?

Associating it with something you have already stored in long-term memory

The process that determines which memory information gets transferred from sensory memory to short term is___?

Attention

Which progression represents Bandura's four-step process in his social learning theory?

Attention, retention, reproduction, motivation

Aversion therapy is a technique used in?

Behavior therapy

Cognitive components of anxiety include?

Being extremely wary or watchful

What is one of Howard Gardner's nine multiple intelligences?

Body-Kinesthetic

The central nervous system includes the___?

Brain and spinal cord

Extrasensory perception is also known as

psi