Psychology Mid Term Review

Simplicity of conduct in the study is to ........... as ability to test large numbers of participants is to ............. .

Archival research, surveys

A group of researchers investigated the affects of two vocabulary learning strategies on word retention two weeks later. In this example learning strategy is the ....... Variable and the word retention is the ...... variable.

Independent, dependent

Which lobe of the brain deals with processing sensory and perceptual information?

Parietal

......... asserts that our gene set the boundaries within which we can operate, and our environment interacts with our genes to determine where those boundaries we will fall.

Range of reaction

Keita study Spanish for three years, and then switches to Pashto. When asked to remember Spanish vocabulary she can't instead she can only remember partial vocabulary. This is an example of ............. Interference.

Retroactive

Which of the following experiments involves the use of operant conditioning?

Rewarding the child for finishing his oatmeal mush and counting how many times the child needs to be rewarded before he finishes his oatmeal voluntarily

Was is in a movie theater with no windows the only light is low illumination from the emergency lights on the floor. Which photo receptors will be most useful to Wesley as he attempts to leave the theater?

Rods

Psychology refers to the.....

Scientific study of the mind and behavior

You are a big fan of your grandmothers chocolate chip cookies. Just the smell of them causes you to feel hungry. One night she's making chocolate chip oatmeal almond cookies, a variation of her usual recipe. You smell the baking cookies and even though it is different than her usual cookie scent, you still suddenly feel hungry for a treat this demonstrates the classical conditioning principle of

Stimulus generalization

The ........... nervous system is responsible for responses such as pupil dilation, increased heart rate, and increased respiration.

Sympathetic

What is the space between neurons called?

The synapse

Why are olfaction and gas station called chemical senses?

They have sensory receptors that respond to molecules in the food we eat or in the air we breathe

Vinny is standing on one leg with his arms in the air. The...... sense helps keep him down so he has less chance of falling over.

Vestibular

Stanley was diagnosed with lymphoma and had to undergo several months of chemotherapy. During this time he would become very nauseated as a side effect, and unintentionally came to associate that nausea with his favorite grilled cheese sandwich. Now, years later, even thinking about a grilled cheese sandwich makes him sick. In this example, Stanley's nauseous reaction to a grilled cheese sandwich is the ...............

Conditioned response

A(n) ....... Variable is a factor that affects both variables of interest in research and may fall asleep give the impression of a cause-and-effect relationship.

Confounding

How is and explicit memory different from an implicit memory?

Explicit memories are memories we consciously try to remember and recall, while implicit memories are those that are not a part of our consciousness.

I just received a paycheck at the end of every week. Which reinforcement schedule is this?

Fixed interval

The type of intelligence that involves seeing complex relationships and solving problems is ....... Intelligence.

Fluid

What do psychologist call a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience?

Learning

Dave's boss told him that he doesn't have to attend the company picnic (which everybody dislikes) if Dave meets his sales quota this month. Dave's boss is using ...........

Negative reinforcement