Research Methods
This cycle involves theory, hypothesis, and data collection.
What is the theory-data cycle?
This lobe is responsible for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
The process of converting sensory input into neural signals.
What is transduction?
Associating a neutral stimulus with a reflexive response describes this type of learning.
What is classical conditioning?
The ability to apply results from the sample to the population
This is the subset of people who participate in your study.
What is the sample?
The sympathetic nervous system prepares the body for this.
What is fight or flight?
Irrelevant information that you have to search for in order to detect a signal.
What is noise?
In operant conditioning, adding something pleasant to encourage behavior is called this.
What is positive reinforcement?
The lobe of the brain related to touch perception.
What is the parietal lobe?
This term refers to assigning participants to conditions by chance.
What is random assignment?
This imaging technique uses radioactive glucose to measure brain activity.
What is PET (Positron Emission Tomography)?
Sensory adaptation occurs because the brain prefers these types of stimuli.
What are novel or high-intensity stimuli?
The stimulus that naturally triggers a response in classical conditioning.
What is the unconditioned stimulus?
A dug that mimics the effects of a neurotransmitter.
What is an agonist?
The manipulated variable in an experiment
What is an independent variable?
The basic cell that sends and receives messages throughout the body.
What is a neuron?
Correctly detecting a stimulus when it IS there.
What is a hit?
Filing taxes by April 15th to avoid fees is an example of this.
What is negative reinforcement?
The term for the primary auditory cortex being organized in a logical way based on frequencies.
As one variable increases, the other variable decreases
What is a negative correlation?
The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body.
What is contralateral organization?
Using prior experience or expectations to guide perception.
What is top-down processing?
The conditioned stimulus before it was conditioned.
A high school student being grounded for missing curfew.
What is negative punishment?