Psychology 200: General Psychology, Spring 2015
Socrative Questions
What counts as knowledge according to Aristotle?
What method does Dr. Riener suggest for how to learn the material from the textbook?
Who developed the concept of reinforcement?
Which approach to psychology was inspired by Darwin's theory of natural selection?
Briefly describe the findings of Kenneth Clark's study of children. Why were these findings significant for
a Supreme Court case?
Give an example of something a cognitive psychologist might study
What is empiricism?
Give an example of an operational definition for your memory of reading this chapter
When psychologists say something is "reliable," what is that something?
What is the third variable problem concerning correlation?
Write a falsifiable hypothesis about some aspect of psychology you are interested in. It doesn't need to
reflect extensive knowledge of the area of psychology, but just reflect that you know what "falsifiable"
and "hypothesis" mean.
How outgoing do you consider yourself? (rate from 1-10, with 1 being very shy, not at all outgoing, and
10 is very very outgoing)
Which part of th eneuron recieves information from other neurons?
What is an action potential?
Which type of neuron recieves information from the external world and conveys this information to the
brain?
What is an axon?
Which is the yellow lobe?
Approximately how many facebook friends do you have (please only enter a single number, not a range)
How many siblings do you have?
What is the difference between sensation and perception?
What is perceptual constancy?
What does the frequency of a sound wave determine?
Name two types of monocular depth cues
What is latent learning?
When we are continuously expose to a stimulus, we gradually reduce our response to it. What is this
kind of learning called?
Name the two relevant stimuli and two relevant responses in classical conditioning.
Your cats come running at the sound of the can opener. What is the conditioned stimulus?
Reinforcement is critical for what kind of learning?
What questions and/or confusions do you have about the learning chapter?
What are the two types of explicit memory?
What is an example of an implicit memory?
Name and describe one way to improve encoding
Which theorists claimed that a stimulus simultaneaously causes both an emotional experience and a
physiological reaction?
What does appraisal mean in the context of emotion?
According to Maslow, our most basic needs are ______, and once those are met, we can seek
_________
Name one thing you do based on extrinsic motivation? What is the extrinsic motivator?
What is one thing you do because of intrisic motivation?
Give one example of evidence for the universality hypothesis
What are syntactical rules?
What is the claim of nativist theory (as applied to language development)?
What does damage to Broca's area do to your language ability?
What is the availability bias?
Briefly describe your approach to the midterm as a problem (as described in the chapter). Would you
adopt a means-end analysis? Does functional fixedness have anything to do with studying for the exam?
People who score highly on one test of intelligence tend to score well on others, suggesting that
Why were intelligence tests originally developed?
Gifted children tend to be equally gifted in several domains
While there is evidence that average intelligence test scores vary between racial and ethnic groups,
what is the accepted reason for this average difference?
Piaget believed that infants construct _____, which are theories about the way the world works
What is the Strange Situation in terms of attachment? (in one brief sentence)
What is the proximodistal rule?
What is social referencing?
What is a trait?
What kind of studies help us know about biological factors in personality?
How do humanists see personality?
Name an example of a projective personalty test
What is the single best predictor of aggression?
The ______ motive describes how people are motivated to experience pleasure and to avoid
experiencing pain.
The tendency to do what authorities tell us to do is known as _____.
Who is the researcher who conducted the famous experiment studying the above tendency in people in
a fake "shocking" situation?
What distinguishes bipolar disorder from major depressive disorder?
What is a common symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder?
What are two common symptoms of schizophrenia?
What distinguishes major depression from dysthymia?
What is one major misconception you feel that many people have about mental illness?