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Question 1

What are confounding variables?

Answer 1

Omitted, or third-party, variables that are not controlled for within the study

Question 2

The appearance of real movement from a sequence of still images is referred to as

Answer 2

apparent movement

Question 3

Which law states that time and ____ are directly related?

Answer 3

Kortes Law, distance

Question 4

What are the ‘ABCs’ of attitude?

Answer 4

A- affective
B- behavioral
C- cognitive

Question 5

Exhibiting less effort/working below our potential when in a group setting is known as

Answer 5

social loafing

Question 6

The loss of one’s self awareness in a group setting is known as

Answer 6

deindividuation

Question 7

Sensory memory is long lasting (T or F)

Answer 7

False. It lasts less than a second

Question 8

Semantic memory is explicit or implicit?

Answer 8

Explicit, it is recalling facts, ideas, or experiences that are NOT tied to a specific life event

Question 9

Increased dopamine in a synapse can cause symptoms of…

Answer 9

schizophrenia

Question 10

How could one have increased dopamine in a synapse?

Answer 10

damage to dopamine reuptake

Question 11

____ _____ refers to the degrees in which males and females are similar or dissimilar

Answer 11

sexual dimorphism

Question 12

____ are mental shortcuts

Answer 12

heuristics

Question 13

_____ refers to how one evaluates a stress stimulus

Answer 13

appraisal

Question 14

When a stimulus is no longer reinforced, what occurs?

Answer 14

extinction

Question 15

When a person credits success to internal factors, and their failures to external factors, this is known as

Answer 15

self-serving bias

Question 16

The Big 5 Model is one that highlights five areas of personality, which are-

Answer 16

openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism

Question 17

An age dependency ration >1 means…

Answer 17

there are more people >65years old, than there are 15-65

Question 18

an increase in acetylcholine results in (sympathetic or parasympathetic) response

Answer 18

parasympathetic

Question 19

The subcortical structure responsible for object permanence is

Answer 19

the hippocampus (object permanence is related to working memory)

Question 20

____ _____ is when repeated failures discourage further effort

Answer 20

learned helplessness

Question 21

The idea that we learn new behaviors through imitation is known as

Answer 21

social learning theory

Question 22

what type of inheritance pattern is Huntington’s disease?

Answer 22

Autosomal Dominant

Question 23

Which study was used to study in-group favoritism

Answer 23

The robbers-cave experiment

Question 24

What lobe initiates voluntary movement

Answer 24

Frontal