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1 - Quiz
Buttoning a shirt is this type of motor skill:
fine
2 - Quiz
Words like "unconscious" and "dreams" are trigger words for which psychological perspective?
psychodynamic
3 - Quiz
The process of storing and processing information is most relevant to which approach?
cognitive
4 - Quiz
If there is an issue with your auditory ossicles, you may experience this kind of deafness:
conduction
5 - Quiz
In a positive correlation, variables:
move in the same direction
6 - Quiz
If you forget how to do something, which type of memory is most affected?
procedural
7 - Quiz
Which stage of Erik Erikson's psychosocial development model focuses on finding a partner in early adulthood?
intimacy v. isolation
8 - Quiz
If you administer the same test to the same group of people multiple times, you are assessing:
reliability
9 - Quiz
When you have a large quantity of data, the best way to generalize is to use:
a representative sample
10 - Quiz
"Mating" and "status" are trigger words for which psychological perspective?
evolutionary
11 - Quiz
Which term describes the sensation of feeling like you know something but not immediately being able to access it?
tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
12 - Quiz
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)
14 - Quiz
Which example best demonstrates episodic memory?
remembering the first time you rode a bike
15 - Quiz
The amygdala is primarily associated with:
fear
16 - Quiz
Latent learning is most evident:
later
17 - Quiz
Fluid intelligence:
decreases with age
18 - Quiz
Which receptor cells are most sensitive to light?
cones
19 - Quiz
SSRI's block reuptake of serotonin in the:
sending neuron
20 - Quiz
Parents who provide both firm boundaries and emotional sensitivity are best described as:
authoritative
21 - Quiz
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
23 - Quiz
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
25 - Quiz
What is the sequence of visual processing?
rods & cones, bipolar, ganglia
26 - Quiz
Which brain structure is most associated with memory processing?
hippocampus
27 - Quiz
During adolescent development, teens are most concerned with:
forming their identity
28 - Quiz
Which brain imaging technique relies on the equipment you see in this photo? (Head cap with wires)
EEG
29 - Quiz
If you attend to specific audio stimuli in a loud room, you are exemplifying:
the cocktail party effect
30 - Quiz
A person claims "I knew that was going to happen!"—even though they didn't predict it beforehand. This is:
hindsight bias
31 - Quiz
In operant conditioning, a contingency would be illustrated by:
receiving a reinforcer after performing a desired behavior
32 - Quiz
The baby knows you're just hiding behind your hands like a doofus during peek-a-boo. They have developed:
object permanence
33 - Quiz
If a kid is unwilling to explore and must be near their caretaker at all times, their attachment style is likely:
insecure-anxious
34 - Quiz
In vision, the concept of size constancy primarily relies on:
perception
35 - Quiz
If you lack an enzyme for long-term potentiation, you will struggle with:
learning
36 - Quiz
This concept is exemplified by the fact that children often mimic their parents' behavior:
observational learning
37 - Quiz
If you're capable of higher-order thinking, you are in which of Piaget's stages of development?
formal operational
38 - Quiz
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
42 - Quiz
Which type of parenting is at work in this picture? (Man yelling at children and forcing them to read books)
authoritarian
43 - Quiz
What is the final stage of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development?
ego integrity v. despair
44 - Quiz
When you reinforce approximations of a desired behavior, you are using:
shaping
45 - Quiz
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