Unit 0
This term refers to the process of collecting data in a systematic way to answer a specific question or test a hypothesis
What is research?
Which part of the brain is primarily responsible for regulating emotions and forming memories?
Amygdala( Think about EMOgdala - full of dark emotions)
This refers to the tendency to perceive information in a way that confirms existing beliefs or expectations.
What is perceptual set?
This phenomenon describes the tendency to forget information from the middle of a list but remember the first and last items more clearly.
What is the serial position effect?
The phenomenon where the left and right hemispheres of the brain communicate across this structure, which is severed in split-brain patients, is known as the corpus callosum.
What is contralateral hemispheric organization?
This is the term for a relationship between two variables, where changes in one are related to changes in the other
What is correlation?
When you stick your hand in a pot of boiling hot water, your reflexes make you pull your hand away almost immediately. Which of the following most directly correlates to this reaction?
What is a Reflex Arc
This principle states that we tend to group things that are similar in appearance together.
What is similarity?
This term refers to the phenomenon where memories are altered by the introduction of misleading information, often seen in eyewitness testimony.
What is the misinformation effect?
This autoimmune disease, characterized by a breakdown of neuromuscular communication, involves a reduced number of acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction.
What is myasthenia gravis?
This type of study prevents participants from knowing whether they are in the experimental or control group.
What is a single-blind study?
Ketamine is a drug that blocks a particular neurotransmitter from activating its receptors. Which of the following would classify ketamine properly?
what is a Antagonist
This cue involves the parallel lines appearing to converge as they move farther away from the observer.
What is linear perspective?
This theory suggests that the way we perceive colors is based on the combination of three primary colors: red, green, and blue.
What is trichromatic theory?
This cognitive bias involves overestimating the commonality of one's opinions and behaviors, often leading to faulty assumptions about others' preferences and choices.
What is the false consensus effect?
This type of sampling involves choosing participants who are easiest to access, often leading to bias.
What is convenience sampling?
Which of the following sleep disorders is when a person’s breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep, leading to momentary awakenings?
what is Sleep apnea
This is the ability to recall information better when in the same environment or state as when it was learned.
What is context-dependent memory?
This term refers to the variables that are manipulated in an experiment to observe their effect on the dependent variable.
What are independent variables?
This theory of color vision suggests that the brain perceives color through three opposing color channels, namely red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white.
What is the opponent-process theory?
This type of bias occurs when participants respond in a way that they think is socially acceptable rather than how they truly feel.
What is social desirability bias?
This can be defined as the ability to perceive and sense the body’s movements and position changes
Kinesthesis
This phenomenon refers to the inability to recall information due to the decay of memory traces over time.
Answer: What is the forgetting curve?
This concept refers to the statistical process by which researchers repeat a study to verify the results, increasing the confidence in the findings.
What is replication?
This phenomenon involves the tendency for individuals to mistakenly think that their genetic predispositions, such as risk for certain diseases, can be completely overridden by environmental changes.
What is the nature-nurture fallacy?