Psychology Flashcards
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A researcher manipulates the amount of sleep participants get and measures their reaction time. What is the dependent variable?
Answer: Reaction time
The dependent variable is what is measured, here reaction time.
Which brain structure is most directly responsible for forming new long-term memories?
Answer: Hippocampus
The hippocampus is essential for consolidating new explicit long-term memories.
In classical conditioning, a tone that initially produces no response comes to trigger salivation after being paired with food. The tone is the:
Answer: Conditioned stimulus
After pairing, the previously neutral tone becomes the conditioned stimulus.
A person attributes a stranger's rudeness to a bad personality rather than to a stressful situation. This illustrates the:
Answer: Fundamental attribution error
Overestimating personality and underestimating situation in others is the fundamental attribution error.
Which neurotransmitter is most associated with reward, movement, and is deficient in Parkinson's disease?
Answer: Dopamine
Dopamine governs reward and movement; its loss underlies Parkinson's.
According to Piaget, a child who understands that the amount of liquid stays the same when poured into a different-shaped glass has mastered:
Answer: Conservation
Conservation is recognizing quantity remains constant despite changes in shape.
A normal distribution where the mean, median, and mode are all equal would appear as a:
Answer: Symmetric bell-shaped curve
In a normal distribution the three measures of central tendency coincide at the center of a symmetric bell curve.