This is when each member of the population has an equal chance of being selected to represent the whole.
What is Random Sampling?
100
A portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the back of the head which receives visual information.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
100
This is the term for information picked up by the body's receptor cells.
What is Sensation?
100
Research suggests that these are the two most basic states of sleep.
What is REM and NREM?
100
This device, named for its' creator, allowed for experiments to be done on a variety of small animals.
What is a Skinner Box?
200
The total group of individuals from which the sample might be drawn is known as this:
What is Population?
200
If this was destroyed, the left half of your brain would not be able to control what your right hand was doing.
What is the Corpus Collosum?
200
This parts job is to focus an image on the retina.
What is the Lens?
200
You should probably keep clothes and dangerous objects off the floor and out of hallways for someone with this sleep disorder.
What is Somnambulism?
200
Albert Bandura is probably best known for his famous study on children, known as this.
What is the Bobo Doll Experiment?
300
This technique of research involves observing subjects in their natural environment.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
300
The brain's ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or building new pathways based on experience is known as this:
What is Plasticity?
300
The idea that the amount of change in a stimulus necessary to produce a JND is a constant proportion of the stimulus intensity.
What is Weber's Law?
300
External factors like light and dark have created this type of internal time marker for our sleep patterns.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
300
Terrell found the Facebook profile of a cute girl at his school and sent her a message. He is anxious and keeps checking the page to see if she messaged back. Terrell is being rewarded on this reinforcement schedule.
What is Variable Interval?
400
A study is one in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment.
What is a Double-Blind Study?
400
This part of the neuron is not an "actual" part, but rather the absence of a connection.
What is the Synaptic Gap?
400
These are the five senses of taste a human tongue is capable of experiencing.
What are Sweet, Salty, Sour, Bitter, and Umami?
400
For a Freudian, dreams are not merely entertainment, but rather serve as informants of these two specific things.
What are fears and wish fulfillment?
400
Shared by both Pavlov and Skinner, this is the theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings.
What is Behaviorism?
500
The direction and strength of the relationship between two variables is signified by this:
What is the Correlational Coefficient?
500
Explained using the analogy of "firing a gun," the neural impulse has this type of response pattern.
What is an All-or-None Response?
500
Because Smell (Olfactory Sense) picks up airborne molecules, it is often referred to as this type of sense.
What is a Chemical Sense?
500
Contrary to popular belief, there are 7 total senses that humans experience, including these.
What are Vision, Olfactory, Gustation, Auditory, Tactile, Kinesthetic, and Vestibular.
500
This psychologist was best known for his work in the 1960's on taste aversion that challenged commonly-accepted principles of classical conditioning.