Full Length Exam Weaknesses (P/S) Flashcards
What are confounding variables?
Omitted, or third-party, variables that are not controlled for within the study
The appearance of real movement from a sequence of still images is referred to as
apparent movement
Which law states that time and ____ are directly related?
Kortes Law, distance
What are the ‘ABCs’ of attitude?
A- affective
B- behavioral
C- cognitive
Exhibiting less effort/working below our potential when in a group setting is known as
social loafing
The loss of one’s self awareness in a group setting is known as
deindividuation
Sensory memory is long lasting (T or F)
False. It lasts less than a second
Semantic memory is explicit or implicit?
Explicit, it is recalling facts, ideas, or experiences that are NOT tied to a specific life event
Increased dopamine in a synapse can cause symptoms of…
schizophrenia
How could one have increased dopamine in a synapse?
damage to dopamine reuptake
____ _____ refers to the degrees in which males and females are similar or dissimilar
sexual dimorphism
____ are mental shortcuts
heuristics
_____ refers to how one evaluates a stress stimulus
appraisal
When a stimulus is no longer reinforced, what occurs?
extinction
When a person credits success to internal factors, and their failures to external factors, this is known as
self-serving bias
The Big 5 Model is one that highlights five areas of personality, which are-
openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
An age dependency ration >1 means…
there are more people >65years old, than there are 15-65
an increase in acetylcholine results in (sympathetic or parasympathetic) response
parasympathetic
The subcortical structure responsible for object permanence is
the hippocampus (object permanence is related to working memory)
____ _____ is when repeated failures discourage further effort
learned helplessness
The idea that we learn new behaviors through imitation is known as
social learning theory
what type of inheritance pattern is Huntington’s disease?
Autosomal Dominant
Which study was used to study in-group favoritism
The robbers-cave experiment
What lobe initiates voluntary movement
Frontal
