Stats
(ranges from -1.00 - 1.00)
What is the Correlation Coefficient?
Serotonin
Inhibitory or Excitatory
What does it do?
What happens when there is too little?
What happens when there is too much?
Both
modulates mood, hunger, serotonin
too little = depression
too much = mania
What is Hindsight Bias?
Part of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord that connects the CNS to the rest of the body
What is the peripheral nervous system
Part of the brainstem that controls involuntary functions like heartbeat, breathing and blood pressure
What is the Medulla?
How much a variable’s value varies from the mean
Dopamine
Inhibitory or Excitatory
What does it do?
What happens when there is too little?
What happens when there is too much?
Excitatory
controls voluntary movement and pleasurable emotions
too little= Parkinson’s
too much= Schizophrenia
Researching what is already believed
What is confirmation bias?
a branch of the autonomic nervous system that activates the body’s flight or fight response, increasing heart rate, dilating pupils and mobilizing
What is the sympathetic nervous system
Brain structure that coordinates voluntary movements, balance and motor learning
What is the cerebellum
numerical data that allows one to generalize and make predictions
ex: using a sample size of 30 students, a researcher makes the claim: “the average score for all 2000 students is likely around 82 +/- 3 points”
What is Inferential Statistics?
Acetylcholine (ACh)
Inhibitory or Excitatory
What does it do?
What happens when there is too little?
What happens when there is too much?
Excitatory
Enables memory, attention, learning, motor functionsToo little = paralysis, Alzheimer’s
Too much = severe muscle spasms
perceived relationship where none exists
a branch of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body, slowing heart rate, lowering blood pressure and promoting rest and digest functions
What is the parasympathetic nervous system
A network of neurons in the brainstem that regulates arousal, alertness and attention
What is the Reticular formation?
Numerical data used to measure group statistics
ex: mean, median, mode
What is descriptive statistics?
Norepinephrine
Inhibitory/Excitatory?
What does it do?
What happens when there is too much?
What happens when there is too little?
Excitatory
Contributes to mood/arousal (alertness)
Too much: anxiety
Too little: depressed mood
Scores that cluster to the left of the mean
ex: number of years people keep a phone (most keep it for a short period of time, hence a positive skew)
What is a positive skew?
the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls involuntary bodily functions such as heartbeat, digestion and breathing
What is the autonomic nervous system?
The outer layer of the brain responsible for higher-order functions such as thinking, perception, planning and decision making
What is the cerebral cortex?
How likely it is a result occurred by chance; smaller difference = more significant
What is Statistical Significance?
GABA
Inhibitory/Excitatory?
What does it do?
What happens when there is too much?
What happens when there is too little?
Widely distributed Inhibitor
Natural relaxer
Too much: impaired memory
Too little: seizure
Someone who is secretly working with an experimenter, pretending to be a normal participant to influence behavior
What are ‘confederates?’
the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls voluntary movements and transmits sensory information to the CNS
What is the Somatic Nervous System?
What happens when the Broca’s area is damaged?
What happens when the Wernicke’s area is damaged?
Broca’s: difficulty forming COMPLETE sentences
Wernicke’s: difficulty forming FLUENT sentences