Psychology 1101 Midterm Review

What is the scientific study of the mind and behavior called?

• Sociology

• Psychology

• Anthropology

• Biology

What is the ability to be disproven by experimental results known as?

• Verifiability

• Falsifiability

• Reliability

• Validity

What is the tendency to ignore evidence that disproves ideas or beliefs called?

• Confirmation bias

• Cognitive dissonance

• Selective perception

• Anchoring bias

What is a committee of administrators, scientists, and community members that review proposals for research involving human participants called?

• Ethics Committee

• Institutional Review Board

• Research Panel

• Scientific Advisory Board

What is the awareness of internal and external stimuli known as?

• Perception

• Consciousness

• Sensation

• Awareness

What is the state of extreme self-focus and attention in which minimal attention is given to external stimuli?

• Meditation

• Hypnosis

• Daydreaming

• Trance

What is the process of clearing the mind to achieve a state of relaxed awareness and focus?

• Meditation

• Hypnosis

• Relaxation

• Mindfulness

What is the theoretical repository of information shared by all people across cultures, as described by Carl Jung?

• Collective unconscious

• Cultural memory

• Shared cognition

• Universal mind

What is the term for how much difference in stimuli is required to detect a difference between them?

• Difference threshold

• Absolute threshold

• Sensory adaptation

• Signal detection

What is the term for not perceiving stimuli that remain relatively constant over prolonged periods of time?

• Sensory adaptation

• Sensory overload

• Sensory deprivation

• Sensory enhancement