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Father of Psychoanalysis. A 100
Who is Sigmund Freud? A 100
Behaviorist who studied operant conditioning. A 200
Who is B. F. Skinner? A 200
Founder of modern experimental psychology. A 300
Who is Wilhelm Wundt? A 300
Individual who led the Structuralists. A 400
Who is William James? A 400
This philosopher borrowed Aristotle’s idea of “tabula rasa”. A 500
Who is John Locke? A 500
Area of the brain responsible for visual processing. B 100
What is the occipital lobe? B 100
Brain structure most responsible for controlling motivation for fighting, fleeing, feeding, and sexual reproduction. B 200
What is the hypothalamus? B 200
Brain imaging technique that provides a detailed account of the activity within the brain. B 300
What is a PET scan? B 300
Primary ion located outside the cell when the cell is at rest. B 400
What is sodium? B 400
Cluster of brain structures, including the amygdala, that is primarily responsible for emotional responses. B 500
What is the limbic system? B 500
Interpretation of sensory input. C 100
What is perception? C 100
Transformation of physical energy into neural impulses. C 200
What is transduction? C 200
Being able to determine that a stimulus has changed just a little bit. C 300
What is the just noticeable difference. C 300
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In the signal detection theory, when a participant says that a stimulus was present, and it was. C 400
What is a hit? C 400
Retina cells that carry information from the rods and cones to the ganglion cells. C 500
What are the bipolar cells? C 500
Most commonly used measure of central tendency. D 100
What is the mean? D 100
Statistics used to generalize to the population. D 200
What are inferential statistics? D 200
Most commonly used measure of variability. D 300
What is standard deviation? D 300
Ethical guideline stating that prior to starting a study individuals must agree to participate. D 400
What is informed consent? D 400
A systematic variance making it impossible to determine the reason for the outcome of the experiment. D 500
What is a confounding variable? D 500
Sleep spindles are indicative of this stage. E 100
What is stage two? E 100
Sleep stage know as paradoxal sleep. E 200
What is REM? E 200
Another term for sleep walking. E 300
What is somnambulism? E 300
A dangerous sleep disorder in which the individual stop breathing multiple times throughout the night. E 400
What is sleep apnea? E 400
Name the brain waves in order of appearance starting with being fully awake. E 500
What is beta, alpha, theta, delta. E 500
Motivation to behave because of internal forces. F 100
What is intrinsic motivation? F 100
Theory of emotion that states we experience physiological responses that we label as emotion. F 200
What is the James-Lange theory? F 200
Hull’s drive reduction theory is aimed at maintaining this. F 300
What is homeostasis? F 300
Cues influencing hunger such as the color and smell of food. F 400
What are short-term cues? F 400
Theory that focuses on the optimal level of arousal in relation to the difficulty of the task. F 500
What is the Yerkes- Dodson law? F 500
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