PSYC 101

Which of the following terms refers to a cognitive bias where individuals tend to overestimate their own abilities or characteristics?

• Confirmation Bias

• Self-serving Bias

• Halo Effect

• Availability heuristic

What do we call a sudden, intense feeling of fear or anxiety that reaches its peak within minutes?

• Obsession

• Panic Attack

• Hypomania

• Phobia

Who is associated with the famous behaviorist experiment involving "Little Albert," where a child learned to fear a white rat?

• Sigmund Freud

• Ivan Pavlov

• B.F. Skinner

• Albert Bandura

What is the phenomenon where individuals in a group tend to make riskier or more extreme decisions than they would individually?

• Group Polarization

• Social Loafing

• Conformity

• Cognitive Dissonance

In the context of memory, what is the term for the vivid recollection of an emotionally significant event?

• Sensory Memory

• Short-term Memory

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• Implicit memory

Possesses the Somatosensory Cortex

• Temporal Lobe

• Parietal Lobe

• Occipital Lobe

• Frontal Lobe

A field that uses psychological research to enhance work performance and select employees, inform leaders of organizations, help with employee motivation, employee evauluations, and workplace diversity programs

• Personality psychology

• Comparative psychology

• Industrial-Organizational psychology

• Forensics psychology

The study of human thought processes including attention, memory, perception, decision-making, problem-solving, and language acquisition.

• Cognitive psychology

• Forensics psychology

• Abnormal psychology

• Clinical psychology

An area that looks at human growth and development over the lifespan including cognitive abilities, morality, social functioning, identity, and other life areas.ypically focusing on development in one of four different areas: physical, cognitive, social/emotional, and communication.

• Clinical psychology

• Developmental psychology

• Comparative psychology

• Forensics psychology

Focuses on group behavior--societal influences on conformity, aggression,predjudice, behavior, attitudes.

• abnormal psychology

• social psychology

• developmental psychology

• industrial/organizational psychology