Experiments
The variable that is manipulated in the experiment
Independent Variable
Johnny has a rare illness that doctors are trying to treat. Which type of research method should be used to help treat Johnny's illness?
Case study
What perspective focus on observable behaviors. They believe that everything a person knows can be learned.
Behavioral
This part of the nervous system contains the brain and the spinal cord
Central nervous system
Leah is having trouble producing speech. What part of her brain is most likely damaged?
Broca's area
The variable that is measured
Dependent
Lewis Terman followed a group of highly intelligent people over their whole lives to determine if they lived significantly better lives. Which research method did Terman use?
Longitudinal study
This perspective takes into account your biological, social, and psychological situations.
Biopsychosocial
This part of the nervous system is responsible for your flight or fight response
sympathetic nervous system
Rachel is having a hard time understanding speech. Which part of her brain is likely damaged?
A variable, besides the independent variable, that might cause changes to the dependent variable
confounding variable
A teacher found in her research that the more you study for a test, the less stressed you are on test day. What type of correlation is shown in this teachers research?
negative correlation
This perspective focuses on the unconscious mind
psychoanalytic/analysis
This part of the nervous system is responsible for your auto pilot functions.
autonomic nervous system
Grady is having trouble balancing after he got hit in the head with a hockey puck. What part of the brain was most likely damaged?
cerebellum
Precise definitions of how variables will be measured
operational definition
This type of research method would be used if you wanted to study a current population. You look at people who are different in one key aspect at one specific point in time.
Cross sectional study
This perspective focuses on how we think and encode information
cognitive
This part of the nervous system uses your motor neurons to carry out voluntary control of our skeletal muscles
peripheral
This part of the brain was cut in split brain experiments to help reduce seizures caused by epilepsy
corpus collosum
observed difference is probably not due to chance variations between samples means that the experiment is
statistical significance
If the teachers wanted to study the lunch room to see how students act not in the classroom, what type of study would the teachers be using?
naturalistic observation
This perspective would say that the whole is more important than the sum
Gestalt
This part of the nervous system will calm you down after your flight or fight response has been activated
parasympathetic nervous system
All of the sense expect _________ go to the thalamus
smell