________ are tentative and testable research statements about the relationship between two or more variables. They are often presented as “if-then” statements.

   Personality is defined as

   Which of the following can store items in memory the longest?

Brain lateralization means

     Jeanette is a woman who highly values financial security, yet her fiancé is financially irresponsible. How can Jeanette reduce the anxiety that she is feeling as a result of her cognitive dissonance? Please choose the best response.

     In Milgram’s experiments, what did they tell the participants the study was about in the beginning?

      Research shows the problem with projective testing of personality is:

    Tests of personality that use ambiguous stimuli (e.g., ink blots) to assess unconscious processes are called _________ tests.

Punishment ________ the likelihood that a behavior will occur while reinforcement ________ the likelihood of a behavior

     Short term memory can hold about _________ items because it must maintain information in memory while also processing other information.

       Which of the following has Low effectiveness for studying?

      The phrase “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” to remember the mathematical order of operations (i.e., parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction) is an example of what kind of memory enhancing technique?

      Simon’s rabbit gets a treat every night. The treats come in a plastic bag that makes a crinkling sound. When the rabbit hears the bag, he runs to the door of his cage to await the treat. One night when Simon is eating chips, the rabbit hears the sound of the bag and runs to his cage door. The sound of the bag of chips is the __________.           

     Anytime the participant tried to stop punishing the learner, what did the experimenter tell them?

      A study has found that the more people exercise, the less they weigh (downward trend). What is the relationship between these two variables?

    The chemical messages sent between neurons are called _____.

      Which psychological domain would include a study of neuroscience?

       Arianna was an accomplished gymnast in her youth but hasn’t been to the gym for nearly 10 years. Despite this, with some prompting from her old coach, she’s able to do almost her entire uneven bar routine. This is an example of _________.

    Memories that persist of major external events such as the death of the Queen of England or the day COVID-19 lock down started are called ______.

     The _____ is the most human and complex part of the brain which includes processes for memory, emotions, and decision making.

      Cillian can remember a great deal of numbers because he groups them all in sets of 3. He is using the technique of ________.

     Sven eats popcorn every time he goes to the movies. He goes to a new theatre with no concessions and finds that his mouth is watering for popcorn the entire time. In this example, what is the conditioned stimulus?

    Janelle gets a dollar from her mom every time she learns a song on the piano. This increases her desire to practice the piano and is an example of __________.

   What type of cell is depicted above?

      Remembering the present you bought your mom last year:

     Unlocking the door to your house:

   Writing using pen and paper:

  Remembering your childhood pets name:

     The part of the brain that is primarily where visual information is processed is the:

    Which type of memory is tested on a multiple-choice test?

   Darnell was the subject for his in-class demonstration on classical conditioning. His teacher read through a list of random words, but each time she said the word, “pizza,” she squirted him in the face with a water bottle, which caused him to flinch. When talking about pizza later outside of class, he didn’t flinch, but then two days later, his friend from class said, “Hey Darnell, pizza!” and he flinched with fear. This is an example of ________.

    The __________ is the structure in the brain that contains the somatosensory cortex, which is responsible for processing sensory information like touch, pain, and temperature.

   Being a student is an example of a _____________, while sitting quietly during a class lecture is an example of a _______________.

    Albert Bandura identified that people learned by more than operant or classical conditioning, but also through ______

    The storage capacity of long term memory is ______.

     What stage of sleep do most dreams occur in?

   Personality is ________.

      The 18^th Street Gang has an extremely long, rigorous, and difficult initiation for aspiring gang members. After initiation, gang members perceive their group as more positive than members of other gangs who have less intense initiations. The gang members’ change in their perceptions about the group to accommodate for their own discomfort in completing terrible tasks is an example of _____________.

     In Bandura’s Bobo doll study, when the children who watched the aggressive model were placed in a room with the doll and other toys, they _______.

     The Five Factor Model of Personality traits are described by the acronym OCEAN. What are the five traits that OCEAN stands for?

      A negative correlation means the variables you are studying move in _____ direction(s).

    Josie’s ability to process and use language after the removal of half of her brain is an example of _______.

   William James’s focus on how mental activities help a person function in their environment is known as

     The __________ on the axon of a neuron acts as an insulator to increase the speed at which signals travel.

   Freud believed that issues stemmed from the ______.

    What type of research design uses existing data sets to answer various research questions?

      Behaviorism is the study of ______.

    Correlational research is examining the relationship between two variables. This means correlation does not equal ________.

   What is the definition of psychology today?

    Who had the first psychology lab and was a founder of psychology?

     What type of research design is being used: A researcher is looking into how schizophrenia affects individuals at different parts of their life. Researchers will be studying the same participants at 10, 20, 30, and 40 years old to gather information.

      After you find a topic, you want to study and determine your question, you must form a ______, which states how you believe the question will be answered.

   Structuralism uses introspection to _________.

  Jimmy has been using heroin and is seeking treatment. The doctor tells him that heroin acts similar to GABA (a type of neurotransmitter) in his brain. The medicine he will be taking will block the reception of GABA. He is taking a(n) _______.

  The _____ receives incoming signals from other neurons.

   Ellie is out on her morning run, and she sees a pack of snarling wild dogs. What does she feel physically?

   ____ is a perspective within psychology that emphasizes the potential for good that people are born with. Key contributors to this field were Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.

    Please identify the independent variable. Susan wants to know what type of therapy is the most effective to treat depression in order to help her clients. Susan provides two different types of therapy to two groups of Clients. Once the treatment is completed, Susan measures the groups to see which has less symptoms of depression.

      Claire is having trouble processing visual information. The doctors decided to conduct a brain scan to see if there are any issues with her visual cortex. What lobe of the brain would they be looking at?

      What type of research experiment is described: A researcher is studying a few people with a rare form of cancer. The researcher wants to document how cancer affects their behavior and thoughts over the course of their treatment. Although this information might not be able to be generalized to a large population, it can be informative for others who are diagnosed with this disease.

Who was an important early figure in behaviorism

   _______ involves observing behavior of individuals in their natural environment.  

Noam Chomsky was dissatisfied with behaviorist because they ______. This contributed to beginning the cognitive revolution.

  Sometimes, researchers will administer a ____ to participants in the control group to help determine if any changes are truly associated with a treatment.

The ______ separates the two hemispheres of the brain.

While researching, you decide to read the ______ of a research article to see if you want to read the article completely. This is a concise summary of the research article.

What makes up the Central Nervous system (CNS)?

  In a _________, the participants are not aware of which group they are in (experimental vs control) but the researchers are.

What is the function of the parasympathetic nervous system?

What type of correlation is shown below?

Identify the dependent variable: A psychologist is wondering what type of music will help participants perform better on a memory task. One group of participants listens to country music while the other listens to pop. After listening to the music, all participants complete the same memory task. Researchers investigate which group completes the task with the most accuracy.

    Sigmund Freud used ________ to help being a person's unconscious material into their conscious awareness to better understand their issues. This practice dominated the field of clinical psychology for many decades.

    This part of a research article includes the specifics on how the research was collected (participants, methods, materials).