Method to My Madness
Big Brained
Good Memories
Developing Minds Think Alike
Feeling Nervous
200
This is the procedure to ensure that the experimental group and control group both represent the population the sample was pulled from.
random assignment
200
This is the region of the cerebral cortex that involves your personality, judgement, and decision making. (hint: Phineas Gage's got cooked and he lowkey crashed out ong)
front lobe (prefrontal cortex)
200
Remembering a holiday dinner from your childhood would be this type of memory.
episodic
200
A four year old gets a large piece of pizza. His brother gets the same size cut into two pieces, and the child complains that he only got one piece. The child is in this stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
preoperational (lack of conservation due to centration)
200
This is the nervous system that calms you down after a rush of fear or excitement.
parasympathetic nervous system
400
These are the research methods that might appear on an AAQ.
Experiment, case study, naturalistic observation, correlational study & meta analysis.
400
This is the neurological condition that results from damage to the left temporal lobe and impairs communication.
Wernicke's aphasia
400
This is when retrieving a memory is only possible when you are in the same place you were in when you encoded the memory.
context-dependent memory
400
According to Vygotsky's cognitive development theory, children that are doing work that isn't too easy but is also not too hard would be in this.
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
400
This are the type of neurons that you use to move your body with your somatic nervous system and motor cortex.
efferent (motor)
800
In a psychology experiment researchers studied the "joy of giving" by observing participants' happiness levels after giving and receiving gifts in the holidays and during a random non-holiday time. Participants complete the Kringle Happiness Metric (KHM) after gift exchanges and the results showed giving significantly boosted happiness. In this experiment, what was the operational definition?
Score on the KHM
800
Name the major functions of each part of the limbic system: hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, and hypothalamus.
Memory processing, emotional processing (especially fear and aggression), sensory information redirection, and regulation of drives
800
The forgetting curve demonstrates this memory effect that is the result of distributed practice.
spacing effect
800
Ecological Systems Theory talks demonstrates how the environment impacts development of the individual. Recall 3 systems and correctly define them.
Microsystem=family, close friends, etc.
Mesosystem=microsystems interacting (teacher knowing parents, boss knowing siblings, etc.)
Exosystem=media, friends of parents, etc.
Macrosystem=broad culture, ideology, values, cultural norms, etc.
Chronosystem=changes to any system over time
800
Multiple sclerosis is a genetic condition caused by this part of the neuron degrading.
myelin sheath
1600
In a psychology experiment researchers studied the "joy of giving" by observing participants' happiness levels after giving and receiving gifts in the holidays and during a random non-holiday time. Participants complete the Kringle Happiness Metric (KHM) after gift exchanges and the results showed giving significantly boosted happiness.
In this experiment, what was the independent variable?
Time of year (holidays vs. non-holiday time)
1600
This is the term for the brain's ability to assign functions of a damaged area to an undamaged one and recover lost functions.
brain plasticity
1600
In working memory theory, this is the part of the central executive that would allow you to rehearse auditory information for a time, such as a phone number, to keep it from being forgotten.
phonological loop
1600
When children stop treating objects as if they are alive, they are in this stage of Piaget's cognitive development.
concrete operational (animism is preoperational)
1600
Correctly identify 5 of the 8 following neurotransmitters:
dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, glutamate, GABA, endorphins, substance p, or acetylcholine.
dopamine=pleasure
serotonin=mood regulation (feeling good/happy)
norepinephrine=releases in response to stress/fear to activate sympathetic nervous system
glutamate= learning and memory
GABA= inhibitor
endorphins=pain relief
substance p=feeling pain
acetylcholine=body movement
2000
In a psychology experiment researchers studied the "joy of giving" by observing participants' happiness levels after giving and receiving gifts in the holidays and during a random non-holiday time. Participants complete the Kringle Happiness Metric (KHM) after gift exchanges and the results showed giving significantly boosted happiness.
If this study were replicated for children, what two ethical procedures would be required to ensure consent?
Informed consent (of the parents)
Informed assent (of the children)
2000
This is the region (and hemisphere) of the brain you would process a burn from grabbing a sheet of holiday cookies out of the oven with your bare right hand.
left parietal lobe
2000
This is the term for the strengthening of synapses that occurs with frequent activation, making the information easier to retrieve.
long-term potentiation
2000
According to Piaget, children will either assimilate or accommodate new information into these conceptual categories.
schema
2000
This process is inhibited by medications like Prozac, an SSRI, which results in a flood of serotonin in the synapse.
reuptake