Approaches toward Research
Sleep
Methods
Piaget's Theory
Potpourri
100
To determine if music impacts recall, one group of students studied a word list listening to music and a second group of students studied without music. This is an example of...
An experiment
100
For a majority of the population, a circadian rhythm is about how many hours?
25
100
This type of plot can be used to demonstrate evidence of a correlation between variables.
Scatterplot
100
Realizing your parents exist even when they aren't in the room.
Object Permanence
100
Checkers is an example of what social concept?
Zero Sum game
200
To determine if playing video games increased violent behavior, several studies of the impact of playing video games on the display of aggressive behavior, were analyzed and compared.
Meta-Analysis
200
A C-PAP machine could help a person with which sleep disorder?
Sleep Apnea
200
A p value of less than .05 would be considered...
valid
200
Conservation
200
Grant is feeling insecure about his LAX skills. He exclaims, "I am a lot better than those JV players". This is an example of what social concept?
Downward Social Comparison
300
Students were asked to record the average amount of sleep they received on a weeknight, and their current GPA to determine if there was a relationship between sleep and GPA. This is an example of what type of study?
a correlational study
300
This sleep stage usually precedes and follows REM.
Stage Two
300
After tossing a coin and getting Heads 9 times, you assume the next toss will surely be Tails.
Gambler's Fallacy
300
When drawing a family portrait, Mihir draws himself in the middle and makes his image bigger even this his parents. This is an example of what phenomenon?
Egocentrism
300
If in the Milgram study subjects were not told afterwards that no one in the experiment was actually being shocked, which Ethical guideline was being ignored?
Debriefing
400
To determine how Andre was impacted by the birth of his little sister, his kindergarten teacher was interviewed, and his parents were asked about how the birth of his little sister impacted Andre's behavior. This is an example of which type of study?
Case study
400
In this sleep stage, an EEG would show that the sleeper is exhibiting a majority of Delta Waves.
Stage 3 Non REM
400
After playing this level on your video game, you keep trying, since you have already put in so much time attempting to beat the level.
Sunk Cost Fallacy
400
When you can first understand "That's what she said" jokes, you are on which of Piaget's levels?
Formal Operational
400
In an experiment on the effectiveness of using chunking to increase recall, the first 15 students who entered the room were assigned to the experimental group and the second 15 students were assigned to the control group. What experimental design technique was being ignored?
Random assignment
500
To examine if males really do monopolize conversations in mixed groups, students were observed in conversations at a college mixer/ party. What type of study is being conducted?
Naturalistic Observation
500
This is the part of the Hypothalamus that regulates our sleep/wake cycles
Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
500
On a bell curve, what percentage of the data falls plus or minus two standard deviations?
95%
500
In this stage you can only experience the world through your senses- tasting, touching etc.
Sensorimotor Stage
500
This is the portion of the brain that is active in dreaming and keeps us from acting out our dreams. It also connects the two hemispheres.
Pons