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• Buttoning a shirt is this type of motor skill:

• fine

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• Words like "unconscious" and "dreams" are trigger words for which psychological perspective?

• psychodynamic

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• The process of storing and processing information is most relevant to which approach?

• cognitive

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• If there is an issue with your auditory ossicles, you may experience this kind of deafness:

• conduction

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• In a positive correlation, variables:

• move in the same direction

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• If you forget how to do something, which type of memory is most affected?

• procedural

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• Which stage of Erik Erikson's psychosocial development model focuses on finding a partner in early adulthood?

• intimacy v. isolation

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• If you administer the same test to the same group of people multiple times, you are assessing:

• reliability

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• When you have a large quantity of data, the best way to generalize is to use:

• a representative sample

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• "Mating" and "status" are trigger words for which psychological perspective?

• evolutionary

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• Which term describes the sensation of feeling like you know something but not immediately being able to access it?

• tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

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• The availability heuristic is employed when a person relies on what?

• information they heard most recently

• 13 - Quiz

• Which person will be able to best learn a new language?

• a six-year-old child (the younger, the better) 

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• Which example best demonstrates episodic memory?

• remembering the first time you rode a bike

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• The amygdala is primarily associated with:

• fear

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• Latent learning is most evident:

• later

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• Fluid intelligence:

• decreases with age

• 18 - Quiz

• Which receptor cells are most sensitive to light?

• cones

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• SSRI's block reuptake of serotonin in the:

• sending neuron

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• Parents who provide both firm boundaries and emotional sensitivity are best described as:

• authoritative

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• Performing an action to remove an aversive stimulus means that action is:

• negatively reinforced

• 22 - Quiz

• The reticular formation is primarily concerned with:

• arousal and alertness

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• A kid who is securely attached will:

• cry when their mother leaves, soothe themselves, demonstrate happiness when their mother returns

• In an experiment, the ___________________ is what is being manipulated by the experimenters.

• independent variable

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• What is the sequence of visual processing?

• rods & cones, bipolar, ganglia

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• Which brain structure is most associated with memory processing?

• hippocampus

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• During adolescent development, teens are most concerned with:

• forming their identity

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• Which brain imaging technique relies on the equipment you see in this photo? (Head cap with wires) 

• EEG

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• If you attend to specific audio stimuli in a loud room, you are exemplifying:

• the cocktail party effect

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• A person claims "I knew that was going to happen!"—even though they didn't predict it beforehand. This is:

• hindsight bias

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• In operant conditioning, a contingency would be illustrated by:

• receiving a reinforcer after performing a desired behavior

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• The baby knows you're just hiding behind your hands like a doofus during peek-a-boo. They have developed:

• object permanence

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• If a kid is unwilling to explore and must be near their caretaker at all times, their attachment style is likely:

• insecure-anxious

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• In vision, the concept of size constancy primarily relies on:

• perception

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• If you lack an enzyme for long-term potentiation, you will struggle with:

• learning

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• This concept is exemplified by the fact that children often mimic their parents' behavior:

• observational learning

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• If you're capable of higher-order thinking, you are in which of Piaget's stages of development?

• formal operational

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• In Pavlov's experiment, which component was the unconditioned stimulus?

• the food

• 39 - Quiz

• If you only look for information that supports what you already think, you are demonstrating which cognitive bias?

• confirmation bias

• 40 - Quiz

• The hypothalamus:

• lets you know when you need to eat and when you're full

• 41 - Quiz

• If you stop exhibiting a behavior after a while, that behavior may be considered:

• extinct

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• Which type of parenting is at work in this picture? (Man yelling at children and forcing them to read books) 

• authoritarian

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• What is the final stage of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development?

• ego integrity v. despair

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• When you reinforce approximations of a desired behavior, you are using:

• shaping

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• Egocentrism should fade out during which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?

• preoperational

• 46 - Quiz

• When elementary school kids are learning their strengths and weaknesses, which of Erikson's stages are they in?

• industry v. inferiority