FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCH

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCH

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Question 1: Amnesia

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The loss of memory.

Question 2: Interference Theory

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Theory stating that people forget not because memories are lost from storage but because other information gets in the way of what they want to remember.

Question 3: Hypothesis

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An idea that is arrived at logically from a theory. It is a prediction that can be tested.

Question 4: Sensorimotor Stage

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The first Piagetian stage of cognitive development (birth to about 2 years), in which infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with motor actions.

Question 5: Critical Thinking

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The process of thinking reflectively and productively, as well as evaluating evidence.

Question 6: Population

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The entire group about which the investigator wants to draw conclusions.

Question 7: Trichromatic theory

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Theory stating that color perception is produced by three types of receptors (cone cells in the retina) that are particularly sensitive to different, but overlapping, ranges of wavelengths.

Question 8: Weber's Law

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The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (rather than a constant amount) to be perceived as different.

Question 9: Parallel Processing

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The simultaneous distribution of information across different neural pathways.

Question 10: Resting Potential

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The stable, negative charge of an inactive neuron.

Question 11: Mnemonics

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Specific visual and/or verbal memory aids.

Question 12: Latent Learning (Implicit Learning)

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Unreinforced learning that is not immediately reflected in behavior.

Question 13: Gestalt Psychology

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School of psychology emphasizing that people naturally organize their perceptions according to certain patterns.

Question 14: Pituitary Gland

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An important endocrine gland at the base of the skull that controls growth and regulates other glands.

Question 15: Retrospective Memory

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Remembering the past.

Question 16: Authoritarian Parenting

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parents exhorting the child to follow directions and to value hard work and effort.

Question 17: Apparent Movement

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The perception that a stationary object is moving.

Question 18: Adrenal glands

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Important endocrine glands that are instrumental in regulating moods, energy level, and the ability to cope with stress.

Question 19: Myelin sheath

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The layer of fat cells that encases and insulates most axons. The myelin sheath speeds up the transmission of nerve impulses.

Question 20: Hindbrain

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The lowest portion of the brain, consisting of the medulla, cerebellum, and pons.

Question 21: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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The science of creating machines capable of performing activities that require intelligence when they are done by people.

Question 22: Preparedness

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The species-specific biological predisposition to learn in certain ways but not others.

Question 23: Extinction (classical conditioning)

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The weakening of the conditioned response in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus.

Question 24: Instinctive Drift

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The tendency of animals to revery to instinctive behavior that interferes with learning.

Question 25: Conditioned Stimulus (CS)

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A previously neutral stimulus that eventually elicits the conditioned response after being associated with the unconditioned stimulus.

Question 26: Experimental Group

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A group in the research study whose experience is manipulated.

Question 27: Dependent Variable

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A factor that responds to change in the independent variable.

Question 28: Agonist

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A drug that mimics or increases a neurotransmitter's effects.