Unit 0: Science Practices
This process ensures participants are fully informed before agreeing to take part in a study.
What is Informed Consent?
This stage of sleep, also called paradoxical sleep, is where most dreaming occurs.
What is REM sleep?
This type of processing uses prior knowledge and internal expectations to interpret sensory information.
The onset of reproductive ability.
What is Puberty?
Both ____ and ______ work together to influence?physical, behavioral, and mental traits and processes.
What is Nature and Nurture?
The middle number if the results of the data was sorted in order.
What is Median?
Damage to this lobe can impair planning, personality, and decision-making.
What is Frontal Lobe?
This problem-solving strategy is fast but prone to error and relies on mental shortcuts or "rules of thumb".
The idea that development occurs in gradual, cumulative changes describes this perspective.
What is Continuous Development?
The 5th stage of Erik Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development that takes place during teenage years (must have both sides).
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
This research method measures the extent one variable causes another and involves random assignment to groups.
This nervous system division prepares the body for fight-or-flight responses.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
This memory model proposes three interacting systems (sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory) that information must pass through to be remembered.
What is the Multi-Store Model?
According to Piaget, children gain the ability to think abstractly and hypothetically during this stage.
What is the Formal Operational?
Right before a meal, _______ increases to stimulate hunger and right after a meal, _________ increases to suppress appetite (hormones).
What is Ghrelin and Leptin?
In a study, this type of definition explains exactly how a variable will be measured.
What is an Operational Definition?
This part of the neuron receives incoming signals from other neurons.
What is Dendrite?
This effect explains why information presented at the beginning and end of a list is easiest to recall.
What is the Serial Position Effect?
The ecological system that includes the interaction between parents and teachers to help a child with their academic performance.
What is the Mesosystem?
The best way to study and learn involves a combination of the ______ and the ______ effects.
What is the Spacing Effect and the Testing Effect?
A psychology researcher finds that as hours of sleep decrease, test anxiety increases, with a correlation of -0.62. This statistical result tells you this type of relationship exists between the variables.
What is Moderate Negative Correlation?
This threshold refers to the smallest level of stimulation a person can detect 50% of the time.
What is absolute threshold?
The belief in one's ability to improve through effort that leads to better academic performance.
This type of reinforcement schedule delivers reinforcement after an unpredictable number of responses.
What is Variable-Ratio?
Both Groups A and B have a mean of 10 but Group A has a standard deviation of 5 and Group B has a standard deviation of 3. Group A's result have relatively higher _______ and Group B's results have relatively higher _______.
What is Variability and Consistency/Predictability?