Proponents of the ________________ perspective generalize about everyday forms of social interaction in order to understand society as a whole.

________________ is the totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior.

________________ functions are unconscious or unintended functions.

The variable hypothesized to cause or influence another is called the ________________ variable.

Psychologists interviewing children suspected of being sexually abused must be extremely careful in choosing the questions they ask the child. They do not want a simple question that is inconsistent with the child’s recollections of the event to result in tainted, inaccurate memories. If a leading question becomes a false memory, which of the following is likely involved?

Loftus & Palmer conducted memory research in which subjects watched a film of a car wreck. Later, they found details recalled of the eye-witnessed event differed based on:

According to the Levels of Processing Theory proposed by Craik & Lockhart, the deepest processing of concepts involves forming memories based on ____________________.

Maynard’s dog barks constantly, day and night. After complaints from neighbors, Maynard went to a pet supply store and bought an automatic bark sensing shock collar and put it on his dog’s neck. Now, every time the dog barks, the collar detects the sound and immediately delivers a painful shock to the dog’s neck. After a week of using the training collar, the dog no longer barks excessively.  Maynard modified his dog’s behavior through operant process of ____________________.

People are most likely to report higher levels of happiness in life if they:

Omar told the same joke over and over to various friends.  Initially, each time he told the joke, the friends laughed, serving as a reward for his telling of the joke.  But after a while, the friends stopped laughing at the joke. Omar eventually stopped telling this specific joke. This is an example of: