Social Psychology
Knowing not to smash your dishes and burp at the dinner table
social norm
What triggers your fight or flight response to a threat?
sympathetic nervous system
Indepth interviews, testing, researching records on an individual
case study
Tinnitus is a phantom ______ sensation
auditory
Believing that unconscious motives cause our behaviors
Psychodynamic
A situation in which the individual pursuit of self-interest leads collective destruction
Social Trap
Which region of the brain will a FMRI show as active when looking at a photo?
occipital lobe
Watching behaviors and recording data
naturalistic observation
Hair cells line the surface of this
basilar membrane
Interested in human growth and potential
Humanistic Perspective
Violent TV programs are more likely create this in a viewer
aggression
Damage to the left cerebral hemisphere is most likely to reduce people's ability to
speak fluently
The outcome that is measured
dependent variable
Light-sensitive surface of the eye, contains rods and cones
retina
Believing that severe depression results primarily from a poor diet and abnormal brain chemistry
Biological
The reason no one wants to do a project with the lazy kid in class
Social Loafing
a rapid increase of voltage in the axon of a sending neuron
action potential
The number in a set of data that shows up in a set of scores
mode
Cocktail Party Effect
Selective Attention
Study critical thinking and problem solving skills
Cognitive Psychology
Recognizing the powerful impact social influence on others' behaviors is most likely to minimize this
the fundamental attribution error
Children who have had an hemispherectomy can still grow up and have normal lives
neuroplasticity
When the data goes in the same direction, either up or down
positive correlation
Which theory emphasizes that personal expectations and motivation influence thresholds?
signal detection theory
Biopsychosocial approach
A Group of people talk in an online group about the situation in Palestine. After an hour of discussion, everyone agrees with one another. This is an example of
Group Polarization
A neuron will fire or it won't
All-or-none principle
To determine how reliable and statistically significant the differences are in the results of a study
Inferential Statistics
A person with prosopagnosia and cannot recognize faces. They have a deficiency in
top-down processing
Only observable behavior should be studied.
Behaviorism