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Psych Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| living up to one's positive potential in life, suggesting that everybody wants to be their ideal self | Humanism |
| Error made when they used polls to predict the 1948 presidential election, mistakenly printing that John Dewey had defeated Harry Truman | Non-random sampling |
| scientists need to use this to define how their concept will be measured | Operational Definition |
| refers to the use of a sugar-pill or other non-active substance | Placebo |
| This error of critical thinking is made when an individual incorrectly assumes a sixth coin flip must come up tails if the first five flips came up heads | Perceiving Order in Random Events ( The Coincidence Error) |
| In addition to measures of central tendency, his other descriptive statistic is used to describe the spread of data collected | Variability |
| activation of the Sympathetic Nervous System, enabling an organism to defend itself against potential dangers and threats | Fight or Flight response |
| refers to the tree-branch like structures which can be found on the cell body of a neuron | Dendrites |
| After a neuron fires an action potential, it will not be able to fire again due to this resting period | Refractory Period |
| the idea that neural connections are not permanent, and can be added and removed as an organism lives its life | Plasticity |
| The thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, and hippocampus are all part of this brain system | Limbic System |
| While sensation involves the stimulation of a sensory neuron, this term refers to the act of processing information in a way that allows an organism to make sense of it | Perception |
| Rods, which see better in the dark, these other visual neurons work better during the day and allow us to see color | Cones |
| "Flavor" is made up of these two senses in combination with each other | Smell and Taste |
| Even when an individual closes one of their eyes, they are typically still able to perceive depth thanks to these "hints" | Monocular Cues |
| Individuals may require corrective lenses when their eyes are not properly doing this, which allows light to be focused on the retinal wall | Accommodation |
| Cognitive psychologists like to compare the human brain to this device, which has many similar functions | A Computer |
| the act of being a skeptical scientist, and questioning conclusions before accepting them | Critical Thinking |
| uses theories of natural selection to help explain why certain human behaviors exist | Evolutionary Pyschology |
| This "problem" explains that correlations cannot fully explain cause-and-effect in the relationship between two variables | This variable problem |
| In addition to separating the brain into two hemispheres and four lobes, this third level of organization includes these two components of the brain | Association Areas and Mirror Neurons |
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