Psych Flashcards for Final

Question 1

What are the four lobes of the brain?

Answer 1

Frontal, parental, temporal, and the occipital lobes

Question 2

Behaviorists study what kind of behavior?

Answer 2

learned behavior

Question 3

What is a chamber that isolates the subject from the external environment called?

Answer 3

skinner box

Question 4

Humanism is a perspective within psychology that emphasizes what?

Answer 4

innate good

Question 5

What is Abraham Maslow best known for?

Answer 5

hierarchy of needs

Question 6

What form of psychology studies the changes in cognitive skills, moral reasoning, and social behavior across the lifespan?

Answer 6

developmental

Question 7

What model includes dimensions of conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extroversion?

Answer 7

five-factor model

Question 8

What does Industrial-Organizational psychology study?

Answer 8

work place and employee satisfaction

Question 9

Forensic psychologists might be consulted to do what in a court case?

Answer 9

called in as an expert witness and pick jury

Question 10

what part of the brain is involved with our experience of emotion and tying emotional meaning to our memories?

Answer 10

amygdala

Question 11

What is a case study?

Answer 11

an individual or small group with unique characteristics/ limited info

Question 12

What is a double-blind study?

Answer 12

when the researcher and the participant are unaware of the group assignment

Question 13

What are the four main components of the scientific theory>

Answer 13

theory, hypothesis, research, observation, conclusion

Question 14

Who developed the psychosocial theory of development?

Answer 14

Erik Erikson

Question 15

What is the difference between instincts and reflexes?

Answer 15

an instinct is a response to a broader event while a reflex is a natural response

Question 16

Simply expecting something to happen can make it happen, what is this called?

Answer 16

placebo effect

Question 17

What refers to the failure to notice something that is completely visible due to lack of attention?

Answer 17

inattentional blindness

Question 18

What refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result?

Answer 18

reliability

Question 19

A space between two neurons is called what?

Answer 19

synapse

Question 20

Two lines appear to be different lengths, though, in reality, they are the same. What is this called?

Answer 20

Muller-Lyer illusion

Question 21

What is a subliminal message?

Answer 21

receiving information that you are not conscious you are receiving

Question 22

Sensation

Answer 22

how we gather information through our senses

Question 23

Perception

Answer 23

the interpretation of information through our senses

Question 24

What is amplitude?

Answer 24

the height of a wave

Question 25

What was Ivan Pavlov known for?

Answer 25

he is known for his experiment using dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell

Question 26

What is continuous development?

Answer 26

when you approach views development as a cumulative process

Question 27

Who believed there were three stages of moral reasoning including pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional?

Answer 27

Lawerence Kohlburg

Question 28

What is nature vs nurture?

Answer 28

nature is DNA that cannot be changed, and nurture is your environment

Question 29

Jean Piaget’s, what stage is the world experienced through senses and actions?

Answer 29

sensorimoter

Question 30

Who conducted the Stanford prison experiment?

Answer 30

Phillip Zimbardo

Question 31

The just world hypothesis is the ideology common in the US that people get the outcome ___________?

Answer 31

they deserve

Question 32

Who called the stages of development psychosexual stages?

Answer 32

Sigmund Freud

Question 33

What are the three stages of prenatal development?

Answer 33

1. germinal
2. embryonic
3. fetal

Question 34

What is authoritative parenting?

Answer 34

parents create the rules, but are flexible

Question 35

What is authoritarian parenting?

Answer 35

child has no input, parents way only

Question 36

Co-morbidity

Answer 36

when an individual was 2 or more disorders at once

Question 37

What are the two most common mental health disorders?

Answer 37

depression and anxiety

Question 38

What are the three components of Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love?

Answer 38

Intimacy- close relationships
Passion- having a physical connection
Commitment- someone who is in it with you for the long haul