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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

  • 10 - Quiz

  • "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

  • 17 - Quiz

  • Fluid intelligence:

  • decreases with age

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  • 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

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

  • negatively reinforced

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  • 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

  • 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

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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

  • 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

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  • 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

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

  • industry v. inferiority

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