Design of the Times
This research method involves watching subject in their natural environment without interference.
What is naturalistic observation?
This brain area is responsible for outgoing motor activity and voluntary movements sent to the body’s muscles and glands.
What is the motor cortex?
The process of getting information into the memory system.
What is encoding?
This is the process by which our sensory receptors receive and represent stimulus energies from the environment.
What is sensation?
This approach to psychology focuses on the unconscious mind and early child experiences.
What is the psychoanalytic approach?
In an experiment, this variable is deliberately manipulated by the researcher.
What is the independent variable?
This lobe holds the primary visual cortex responsible for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
This effect explains why we tend to remember items at the beginning and end of a list better than the middle.
What is the serial position effect?
The minimum amount of stimulation needed to detect a stimulus
What is absolute threshold?
This sleep disorder causes sudden attacks of sleep, often at inopportune times.
What is narcolepsy?
The degree to which an experiment measures or predicts what it claims to is known as this.
What is validity?
Damage to Broca’s area would most likely result in difficulty doing this.
What is speaking/producing language?
Memories that are consciously recalled, such as facts or experiences, are known as this type of memory.
What is explicit memory?
The sense of body movement and position, including balance.
What is the vestibular sense?
This neurotransmitter is most closely linked with mood regulation, and low levels are associated with depression.
What is serotonin?
When both the participants and the experimenter are unaware of who receives the treatment or placebo, this procedure is being used.
What is the double-blind procedure?
The part of the brain most responsible for regulating the "four F’s" — fighting, fleeing, feeding, and reproducing.
What is the hypothalamus?
When old information interferes with learning new information, this occurs.
What is proactive interference?
The ability to perceive an object as constant even when its shape, size, or brightness changes.
What is perceptual constancy?
The “fight or flight” response is activated by this division of the autonomic nervous system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This statistical concept refers to the likelihood that a study’s results occurred by chance, and is often represented by p-value.
What is statistical significance?
The two hemispheres of the brain are connected by this bundle of neural fibers.
What is the corpus callosum?
The inability to retrieve information from before a brain injury.
What is retrograde amnesia?
The most common form of hearing loss, caused by damage to the cochlea's receptor cells.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
Gardner’s theory of intelligence includes linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic types, collectively called this.
What is multiple intelligences?