Research Methods
Vision
Problem solving
Gender
Emotions
100

The range of the Correlation Coefficient

-1 to 1

100

The Color of a lightwave is determined by the

wavelength/frequency

100

Trying various things until something works

Trial and Error

100

These are oversimplified beliefs about characteristics that all men and women are presumed to have.

Gender Stereotypes

100

Behavior, Arousal and Experience all make up

Emotions

200

A type of study that focuses on a study of an individual or small group

Case study

200

The area where the optic nerve leaves the eye leads to you having a

Blind spot

200

____ is coming up with a single solution, while ____ is coming up with multiple solutions. (must be in correct order)

Convergent thinking, divergent thinking

200

The sense of being make, female, both or neither is one's Gender ____

Identity

200

There's lots of people around so believe someone else will do it is an example of the...

Bystander Effect / Diffusion of Responsibility

300

Give me a Strength AND a Weakness of Longitudinal Study

S = observation and correlation used/more than one observation done/lots of data

W = Expensive/takes time, subject can leave, confounding variable 

300

Rod process ___

Cones ____ 

Rods = black,white

Cones = Color

300

The term for Higher Order Thinking

Metacognition

300

This is a set of expectations about a social position defining how those in that position ought to behave. Ex. If someone said that boys are to be doctors and girls are to be homemakers.

Gender Role

300

You help your friend with their project because you know they will help you. This is what type of helping norm?

Reciprocity Norm

400


The tendency of people to overestimate their ability for prediction. 




Hindsight Bias

400

This color theory says we see colors from a combo of red, blue and green cones

(Young- Helmholtz) Trichromatic Color Theory

400

The mental image or best example of a category

Prototype

400

Bandura's ____ Theory states that the rewards and punishments based on gender-linked behaviors can shape one's gender identity.

Social Learning Theory

400

You see others smiling and that makes you smile too and feel happy. This is the ____ hypothesis

Facial Feedback

500

A Quasi-experiment where the IV can't be manipulated in which we cannot ethically make someone do.

Ex Post Facto experiment

500

We have these specific cells that see the lines, edges, curves that allow us to see movement

Feature Detectors

500

Sticking with something even though it's not great only because you've already spent so much time on it already.

Sunk cost fallacy

500

The ____ theory is the framework for organizing boy-girl characteristics and suggests that young children are influenced by society's ideas about what it means to be male/female in their culture.

Gender Schema Theory

500

Name the 3 phases of stress (preferably in order)

1. Alarm

2. Stress response

3. Exhaustion

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