Unit 1- Research Methods
This perspective emphasizes unconscious thoughts and motivations.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
This bushy structure receives information from other neurons and transmits it towards the cell body.
What is a dendrite?
The inability to distinguish between certain colors, often red and green.
What is color blindness?
This type of conditioning involves learning an emotional response through association with a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus.
What is Classical Conditioning?
We can only consciously process a limited amount of information at once.
What is Selective Attention?
The first step of the scientific method involves formulating a testable prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
This fatty sheath insulates some neurons, speeding up the transmission of nerve impulses.
What is the Myelin Sheath?
The process of transforming external energy into neural impulses.
What is transduction?
Token economies used in classrooms or workplaces are based on this type of conditioning.
Operant Conditioning
We tend to remember information at the beginning and end of a list, forgetting those in the middle.
What is the Serial Position Effect?
A group randomly selected from a larger population for a study is called a...
What is a sample?
The bridge between the brain's hemispheres, allowing communication.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
The minimum level of stimulation a receptor can detect.
What is the absolute threshold?
This famous experiment demonstrated observational learning in infants, where fear was conditioned through watching an adult's reaction and utilizing startle reflex.
What was Little Albert's Experiment?
Getting fixated on one approach and unable to consider alternatives.
What is a Mental Set?
Experiment that ensures that neither the researcher nor the participant knows who is in the control group.
What is a double-blind experiment?
This part of the brain regulates body temperature, hunger, and thirst.
What is the hypothalamus?
The fluid-filled chambers of the inner ear responsible for translating vibrations into nerve impulses.
What is the cochlea?
This is the gradual shaping of a behavior through rewarding successive approximations.
What is shaping?
Overestimating the likelihood of an event based on personal experience.
What is the Availability Heuristic?
This research method involves collecting data from the same participants over an extended period.
What is a longitudinal study?
This lobe controls movement, planning, and problem-solving.
What is the frontal lobe?
The five basic tastes humans can detect.
What are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami?
Reinforcement is delivered after a fixed amount of time has elapsed, regardless of the number of responses
What is a Fixed Interval schedule?
This phenomenon occurs when new information disrupts the ability to recall previously learned information.
What is retroactive interference?