UNIT 0: Research Methods
The argument of whether what someone does is dependent on their genes, or from life experience.
Nature vs. Nurture
Function of the hippocampus
Memory
Kara is going to the grocery store and to remember her list she groups her foods into specific categories (Dairy, Proteins, Fruits) What type of mnemonic is this?
Chunking
Unlearned naturally occurring response to an unconditioned stimulus
Unconditioned Response
Attributing someone’s behavior to their internal traits instead of the situation.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Getting the same results time and time again, leading to the ability to successfully repeat the experiment.
Reliable
Function of medulla
Studying by focusing on the facts and not the meaning of information that has to be remembered involves____
Shallow processing
In classical conditioning, repeated presentations of the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus leads to _____________.
Extinction
When group discussion strengthens a group’s dominant position.
Group polarization
When high scores correlate to high scores in another variable. The same tends to happen with low scores.
Positive Correlation
Function of thalamus
With a brief visual interruption, a person doesn't notice the person they were talking to change
Change Blindness
A casino game pays out, and there is a winner after a random number of tries
Variable Ratio
The tendency to overestimate how much others share our beliefs.
False consensus effect
Subjects act/feel differently because they think they are being exposed to the treatment.
Placebo Effect
Sleep stage you are paralyzed in
REM Sleep
IQ scores rising over generations across the globe
Flynn Effect
Reinforcers guide behavior closer to the desired behavior until the final goal is reached. Step-by-step.
Shaping
When you convince someone to change their attitude using facts
Central Route Persuasion
Individuals in the population as well as the experimenter have no idea if they are members of the control or experimental group.
Double-blind
fundamental nerve cells that transmit information via electrical and chemical signals
Neurons
Used to test depth perception in babies
Visiual Cliff
Jean Piaget's 4 stages (in order)
1: Sensorimotor
2: Preoperational
3: Concrete operational
4: Formal Operational