Research Methods
Manipulated variable in an experiment
What is the independent variable?
Decision-making and inhibition are made possible because of this part of the brain
A child that called a mug a cup is using this idea of Piaget's to understand his environment
What is assimilation?
Sleep stage in which dreaming occurs
What is REM sleep?
Freudian concept for the part of your mind that governs primal desires
What is the ID?
What is the dependent variable?
Major excitatory neurotransmitter
What is glutamate?
Neo-Freudian responsible for social development theory
Big five trait that represent how sensitive you are to psychological stress
What is a confounding variable?
A parent removing their child's extracurricular requirement due to positive school grades is doing this
What is negative reinforcement?
What is a flashbulb memory?
Explains that smiling may actually help you feel happier
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
This type of relationship can describe the way that as temperatures increase, amount of clothing worn decreases
What is negative correlation?
This brain area is the relay station for all senses except ______ (need brain area and sense)
"an" in the word "anarchy"
*Mention telegraphic speech*
What is a morpheme?
Explains why you might feel fear at the same time you start shaking
A researcher explaining that the visual cliff experiment was really a test of depth perception is performing this ethical step
Hunger hormone from fat cells that describes when you are full
Someone watching tennis may have these tennis-related cells fire even if they are not physically playing
Strengthening of neural synapses based on patterns of activity in that area (L.L. Bean)