The Brain
The lobe of the brain responsible for processing vision
What is the occipital lobe
What is a case study
The group of interest your research is attempting to study
What is a population
What is trichromatic theory
The two components of the central nervous system are
What are the brain and the spinal cord
What bundle of nerves is located in the base of the spinal cord, and extends through the cerebral cortex and coordinates information across structures?
What is the reticular formation
The type of validity you examine when you are determining if the study is truly measuring the changes of the independent variable
What is internal validity
The specific piece of an experiment that is manipulated
What is an independent variable?
The bare minimum amount of stimulus needed to detect a sesnation
What is an absolute threshold
This type of chemical floods the space between neurons, telling the next cell to fire its signal
What is a neurotransmitter
The part of the brain that contains the cerebellum, and parts of the brain responsible for sleep, wakefulness, heart rate, and breating
What is the hindbrain
Subconscious cues from researchers to participants that could influence the way the participants act in a study?
What is experimenter bias
What is Webers law
The part of the Peripheral Nervous System that brings sensory information to the brain.
What is an afferent nerve
The part of the brain considered the pleasure center
An experiment focused on studying how a variable effects two different groups
What is a quasi-experimental design
The phenomenon that occurs when a participant changes their response or behavior due to their psychological expectations of treatment
The placebo effect
The theory of auditory processing that believes hearing is a result of mechanical vibrations on certain locations of the basilar membrane?
The part of your nervous system that sends messages to skeletal muscle
What is the somatic nervous system
The part of your brain responsible for emotional memory
Research that evaluates how two things change together
What is correlational research
What are the subtle cues that may indicate the research aims to the participants?
What are demand characteristics?
The bodily sense that is able to determine where you are in space
What is the vestibular sense
The part of the nervous system responsible for returning the body to a resting state
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?