Retrieval Grids #1-#3

Question 1

Social Facilitation

Answer 1

performance on a task improves when others are watching

Question 2

Soloman Asch

Answer 2

person responsible for the conformity study involving the length of lines

Question 3

representatives heuristic

Answer 3

occurs when we estimate the probability of an event based on how similar it is to a prototype in our mind

Question 4

conversion disorder

Answer 4

stress converts itself into some physical ailment without biological explanation

Question 5

somatoform disorders

Answer 5

physical symptoms have no biological explanation other than stress

Question 6

4D’s in terms of disorders

Answer 6

1. distress
2. deviant
3. dysfunction
4. dangerous

Question 7

etiology

Answer 7

term used to discuss the causes of a disorder

Question 8

william wundt

Answer 8

father of psychology

Question 9

misinformation effect

Answer 9

recall of an event you witness is altered by misleading info

Question 10

effortful processing

Answer 10

type of processing that requires attention and effort

Question 11

linguistic relativity hypothesis

Answer 11

theory that says the language we speak determines out thoughts

Question 12

G. Stanley Hall

Answer 12

person responsible for bringing psychology to the US

Question 13

syntax

Answer 13

the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences

Question 14

Noam Chonsky

Answer 14

believes humans possess a language acquisition device

Question 15

inattentional blindness

Answer 15

term that describes when we fail to see things happening right in front of us

Question 16

delta wave

Answer 16

brain wave pattern during N-REM stage 3 sleep

Question 17

feature detectors

Answer 17

neurons in occipital lobe that detect shapes, angles and movement

Question 18

4 brain parts of the limbic system

Answer 18

1. hippocampus
2. amygdala
3. thalamus
4. hippocampus

Question 19

John Watson

Answer 19

psychologist responsible for the Baby Albert experiement

Question 20

afferent neurons

Answer 20

neurons that carry message from the senses to the brain

Question 21

mirror neurons

Answer 21

neurons that allow us to feel empathy, imitate others

Question 22

pineal glands

Answer 22

the gland that secretes melatonin

Question 23

ventromedial hypothesis

Answer 23

each eye projects image on slightly different locations on retina