Experimental Design
A study design that is able to prove causeation, and includes random assignment of participants to a control and experimental group(s).
What is an Experimental Study Design?
Touch and Taste are processed in this part of the brain.
What is the Parietal lobe?
The physical processing of environmental stimuli by the sense organs.
What is Sensation?
Planning for, and achievement of, future goals is characteristic of _________ orientation.
What is a general future orientation.
Which is more important, Nature or Nurture?
Neither! Both have an impact on development (50/50ish).
That the group of participants who took part in a study are representative of the population the study claims to describe.
What is the reprsentitiveness of the sample?
Chemical signals travel _____ neurons while electrical signals travel _____ neurons.
Between, Within
The psychological process of interpreting sensory information.
What is Perception?
Focuses on doing one activity, from beginning to completion, at a time is an example of __________ time.
What is monocronic time?
Which of the following is not an example of a genotype-environment correlation:
Productive Genotype-Environment Correlation
At the conclusion of a research study the researcher informs the participant of the true nature of the study.
What is Debriefing?
When a neuron becomes more positive the cell _______, this makes the neuron _______.
Depolarizes, Fires
The theory of color vision that better explains the phenomenon known as afterimage.
What is Opponent Processing Theory?
How is inententional blindness related to sensory adaptation.
The Ability to selectively attend to certain environmental stimuli and not others is essential for humans to be able to focus on things that may be important to their survival.
A baby hears a loud sound and looks to his mother to see whether she appears scared by the sound. Seeing that she isn’t upset by it, he relaxes and doesn’t worry about it. Levi appears to be using __________.
Social referencing
A resercher finds a relationship, but in reality there is not a relationship the researcher has made a _______ and when a resercher finds no relationship, but in reality there is a relationship researcher has made a _________.
What is a Type 1 error, Type 2 error
The primary motor cortex is located in the __________ lobe and the primary sensory cortex is located in the __________ lobe.
What is the Frontal lobe, Parietal lobe?
Noticing the individual parts of an image first rather then looking at the whole image first.
What is Bottom - Up Processing.
Leroy is studying in the Alumni Center and not paying much attention to what is going on around him. Suddenly, he hears his name and that grabs his attention. This is an example of _______________.
The cocktail party effect
A child believes that the taller glass now contains more water because the shape of the glass makes it appear that way.
What is an example of a child that has not aquired Conservation.
Knowing that scientfic reaserch has been riggoursly tested, until we are confident that the results. Means that peer reveiwed scientific reaserch can be trusted to influence different policies, practices and future reaserch.
Why Falsability is important to science.
Describe what happens at the synaptic gap. Incorporate the terminology that we learned (e.g., synaptic gap, axon, presynaptic terminal button, dendrite, postsynaptic spine, neurotransmitter, vesicle, receptor).
This is on the test!
These are the two chemical senses.
What is Olfaction and Gustation.
One pitfall and one benefit of Inententional Blindness.
Benefit: you are not overstimulated by all of the different things that you see all day.
Pitfall: You may miss somthing important happening in the world.
According to research by developmental psychologists, which is the ideal parenting style?
Authoritative