PSYCH REVIEW – Flashcards
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Holding two index fingers in front of the eyes can create the perception of a floating finger sausage and best illustrates the effect of what phenomena?
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Retinal Disparity
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Administering an aversive stimulus following an operant response
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Positive Punishment
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A statement describing the exact procedures for measuring an anticipated experimental outcome
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Operational Definition
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Your activated but limited capacity memory
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Short-term memory
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According to Erikson, achieving a sense of identity is the special task of
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Adolescence
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The process be which out sensory systems transform stimulus energies into neural impulses
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Transduction
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Howard Gardner identified a total of intelligences?
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8 intelligences
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A junction between a sending neuron and a receiving neuron
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Synapse
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A technique that involves repeating the essence of an earlier research study with different participants and in different circumstances
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Replication
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To prevent participants in an experiment from trying to confirm the researchers' predictions
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Deception
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The 2 major divisions of the nervous system
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Central and peripheral nervous system
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The tendency to believe that we know more than we do
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Overconfidence
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The process of receiving and representing stimulus energies by the nervous system
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Sensation
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Being able to recall current events but not being able to recall the past
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Retrograde amnesia
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Adjusting one's behavior or thinking toward a group standard
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Conformity
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Schedule of reinforcement in which a response is reinforced only after a specific time period has elapsed.
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Fixed-interval schedule
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Most likely to occur in a group in which individuals share similar opinions.
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Group polarization
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The reappearance, after a time lapse, of an extinguished CR
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Spontaneous recovery
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Procedure used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie people's intelligence scores
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Factor analysis
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In 8 to 10 seconds, the late memory whiz Kim Peek could read and remember the contents of a book page. Yet, he had little capacity for understanding abstract concepts. Kim's mental capacities best illustrate __________.
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Savant syndrome
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Things continue to exist even when they are not perceived
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Object permanence
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There are component elements to people's sensory experience
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Functionalism
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Mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100
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Original version of the Stanford-Binet IQ
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Tests designed to predict ability to learn new skills
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Aptitude tests
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A person's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills
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Crystallized intelligence
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A statement describing the exact procedures for measuring an anticipated experimental outcome
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Operational definition
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A set of expectations and assumptions that greatly affects what we perceive
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Perceptual set
