Research Design
A research method where researchers purposefully manipulate variables to determine cause/effect.
What is an experiment?
The part of the nervous system made up on the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
Break info into smaller units to aid in memory.
What is chunking?
External agents that can cause abnormal prenatal development (such as alcohol and drugs).
What are teratogens?
The idea that people will give in to a larger request if they have already given in to a smaller one.
What is the foot-in-the-door technique?
When a person has heightened mood, risky behaviors, fast talking, and flights of ideas; associated with Bipolar Disorder.
What is mania?
The variable that is manipulated to see what effect it has on another variable.
What is an independent variable?
The part of the brain that is responsible for speech production.
What is the broca's area.
The belief that your intelligence is fixed at birth and can't be changed through your efforts.
What is a fixed mindset?
Type of intelligence that involves fact and prior learning/experiences and typically improves with age.
What is crystallized intelligence?
A psychological approach that involve the use of unconditional positive regard.
What is Humanistic Psychology.
What it's called when people have false beliefs (such as someone is out to get them, they are the King of England, etc.); associated with schizophrenia
What are delusions?
An experiment in which neither the participant or the experimenter are aware of which condition people are assigned to.
What is a double-blind study?
The neural pathway that allows a reflex to occur. It's a rapid, automatic, and involuntary response to a stimulus, bypassing the brain for a quicker reaction
What is the reflex arc?
The name of the effect that relates to how IQ has risen steadily over the last 80 years
What is the Flynn Effect?
The age at which children are at Erikson's Trust vs. Mistrust stage?
What is birth to 18 months?
Tendency to blame things on other's personality rather than the situation.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
A type of stress that is positive or motivating.
What is eustress?
The measure of central tendency most useful when there is are outliers in the data set.
What is the median?
A drug that mimics a neurotransmitter.
What is an agonist?
When a test properly measures what it's intended to measure.
What is validity?
The highest level of Piaget's stages of cognitive development, at which children can use abstract thinking.
What is Formal Operational Stage?
The idea that humans seek optimum levels of arousal: easier tasks requires more arousal and harder tasks need less.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?
A common side effect of antipsychotic medication that involves unwanted movements of hands, face, etc.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
The type of statistics that establish whether the results are significant (meaningful).
What are inferential statistics?
A neurotransmitter associated with transmitting pain signals (new neurotransmitter for the course).
What is Substance P?
When old information blocks the ability to learn new information.
What is proactive interference?
The smallest units of meaning in a language, such as prefixes, suffixes, and root words.
What are morphemes?
The theory of motivation that states that a physiological need creates tension which then motivates you to satisfy the need.
What is drive reduction theory?
A disorder that involves uncontrollable screaming, shouting, and crying associated with a stressful event usually related to family. This is associated with people of Caribbean and Iberian descent.
What is ataque de nervious?