Psy Capstone 161 Quiz Questions With Answers|11 Pages
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_____ tests the equality of two frequencies or proportions - ️️chi square test
______ is the neurotransmitter activated during an emergency situation and ___________ is released to bring the body back to homeostasis after responding to the threat. - ️️Epinephrine; norepinephrine
______ is...
_____ tests the equality of two frequencies or proportions - ✔ ✔ chi square test
______ is the neurotransmitter activated during an emergency situation and ___________ is released to
bring the body back to homeostasis after responding to the threat. - ✔ ✔ Epinephrine;
norepinephrine
______ is the study of the ways in which our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are affected by the real,
implied, or imagined presence of other people. - ✔ ✔ Social Psychology
_______ found that superordinate goals can reduce the level of hostility that exists between groups.
These common goals help individuals to cooperate and/or solve problems without conflict. - ✔ ✔
sherif
________ found that superordinate goals can reduce the level of hostility that exists between groups.
These common goals help individuals to cooperate and/or solve problems without conflict. - ✔ ✔
Sherif
________ is generally thought to play roles in regulating mood, eating, sleeping, and arousal. - ✔ ✔
serotonin
________ play an important role in how comfortable we are with affection and intimacy in adulthood. -
✔ ✔ early attachments
_________ arises when an individual has two or more contradictory beliefs, thoughts or values, or does
an action that goes against one of these. - ✔ ✔ Cognitive Dissonance
_________ is thought to play an important role in stabilizing neural activity in the brain. - ✔ ✔ GABA
_________ state how a researcher will measure the variables they are studying. - ✔ ✔ Operational
definitions
__________ are times in which we are predisposed to learn a certain skill at that age. - ✔ ✔ critical
periods
__________ is an intense memory associated with a profound, meaningful and/or emotional event,
often including details such as where the individual was or what he or she was doing at the time of the
event. - ✔ ✔ flashbulb memory
__________ is considered the father of psychology, and ___________ is considered the father of
American psychology - ✔ ✔ Wilhelm Wundt; William James
, __________ is the comprehension center for both spoken and written language, receiving input from
the auditory cortex and visual cortex. - ✔ ✔ Wernicke's
__________ looked at individuals' obedience to authority. His study required participants to provide
"electrical shock" to individuals for answering questions incorrectly. - ✔ ✔ milgram
____________ is an estimate of how much group means differ from each other by comparing the
between-group variance to the within-group variance using a ratio called the F ratio. - ✔ ✔ ANOVAs
_____________ are beliefs or expectations about people based only on the group to which they are
members. - ✔ ✔ stereotypes
_____________ is a biological process that causes a progressive deterioration of structure and function
of all organs chronologically. - ✔ ✔ Senescence
_____________ is the scientific study of animal behavior in natural settings such as observing bird calls
in the wild and how they influence bird behaviors. - ✔ ✔ ethology
_____________ statistics are concerned with organizing, describing, quantifying, and summarizing a
collection of actual observations. - ✔ ✔ descriptive
______________ are primarily located in the brain and spinal cord. They are linked to reflexive behavior.
- ✔ ✔ interneurons
______________ is the variable that is manipulated in a study. - ✔ ✔ IV
_______________ is encoded through effortful processing. - ✔ ✔ explicit memory
________________ arises when an individual has two or more contradictory beliefs, thoughts or values,
or does an action that goes against one of these. - ✔ ✔ Cognitive Dissonance
_____________is the second stage in the action potential and occurs when a stimulus has been
significant enough to cause the membrane's potential to increase to the threshold potential. - ✔ ✔
depolarization
____________impacts the ability to physically write as well as the process of transferring thoughts and
ideas into written form. - ✔ ✔ Dysgraphia
"Acts of discrimination" fall under which attitude component? - ✔ ✔ behavioral
"American culture has built into it a European standard of beauty." Is an example of what form of
discrimination? - ✔ ✔ cultural discrimination
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