Unit 0: Research Methods
A scientist observes children playing at a playground but does not interfere or manipulate the conditions. What research method are they using?
Naturalistic Observation
The major excitatory neurotransmitter
Glutamate
The type of memory made by automatic processing
Implicit memory
Agents that cause malformation and harm during prenatal development.
What are Teratogens?
The tendency to over emphasize dispositional factors and under estimate situational factors in explaining a behavior.
What is Fundamental Attribution Theory?
The scientific study of human functioning, with the goals of discovering and promoting strength and virtues that help individuals thrive.
What is Positive Psychology?
Are we an item? (Yo) Girl, quit playin' (Uh-huh)
"We're just friends," (Yo) what are you sayin'? (Uh-huh)
This ethical guideline requires researchers to keep personal information and responses private.
Confidentiality
The limbic system is comprised of the hypothalamus, hippocampus and this
Amygdala
A cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used.
What is Functional Fixedness?
When you smile whenever you smell your beloved Granny's perfume, her perfume is a __________.
Conditioned stimulus
The tendency to attribute positive outcomes to ones' self and negative outcomes to external factors.
What is Self-Serving Bias?
Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases--alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
Kiki, do you love me?
Are you riding?
Say you'll never ever leave from beside me
'Cause I want ya, and I need ya
And I'm down for you always
This describes exactly how the dependent variable will be measured and it is important for the replication of a study.
Operational definition
The state a neuron is at when it is not firing
Resting potential
When you incorporate new information into an existing schema
Assimilation
At what stage of Piaget's cognitive development do children begin to develop theory of mind?
Pre-operational
The degree to which a person believes they can control events effecting them, categorized as internal or external.
Locus of Control.
Intense fear of being judges, criticized, and watched by others
Social anxiety disorder
Ey, Tità me preguntó
Si tengo muchas novia'
A statistical measure quantifying the spread of data points relative to the mean
Standard deviation
The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum proportion (not amount)
Weber's Law
If you assume that someone plays basketball because they are tall, you are making this mistake
Representativeness heuristic
zone of proximal development
A belief or expectation that influences a person's behavior in a way that causes the belief to come true.
What is Self-fulfilling Prophecy?
A group of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience.
What are Personality Disorders?
You can dance, you can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
Digging the dancing queen
a quantitative measure of the magnitude of the experimental effect, difference between groups, or strength of a relationship, independent of sample size
Effect size
The deepest stage of sleep when Delta waves occur
NREM-3
If you can't remember your new password and keep on using the old one, you have this
proactive interference
If you take an Advil to get rid of a headache how are you being conditioned?
Negative reinforcement
Conformity resulting from a person's desire to gain approval and avoid disapproval.
What is Normative Social Influence?
Therapeutic perspective that emphasizes active listening and unconditional positive regard
Humanistic
Staring at the blank page before you Open up the dirty window Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance So close you can almost taste it Release your inhibitions Feel the rain on your skin