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This cannot solely be assumed based on whether or not two variables are correlated.
What is causation?
This part of the brain is the base of the brainstem. It controls heartbeat and breathing.
What is the medulla?
The raw input one receives from any stimulus they are exposed to, that is later interpreted.
What is sensation?
Abraham Maslow categorized the human needs in this chain branching from most to least important.
What is the Hierarchy of Needs?
This famous experimenter trained a dog to salivate through the conditioned stimulus of a bell ringing.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This famous form of intelligence assessment was adapted from the Stanford-Binet system.
What is the intelligence quotient (IQ) assessment?
This technique uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce computer-generated images of soft tissue and show brain anatomy.
What is an MRI?
The interpretation and understanding of raw sensory input.
What is perception?
A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned.
What is an instinct?
In Harlow’s attachment experiments, this animal was used to find a preference for contact comfort from a mother rather than satisfaction of physiological needs.
What is the Rhesus Monkey?
This is a type of test used to predict one’s ability to learn.
What is an aptitude test?
These are cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons.
What are glial cells?
This is the part of the body where olfactory receptors are located.
What is the nose?
This area of the brain deals with regulating emotions, especially fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
In Jane Elliott’s classroom discrimination experiments, she used this factor to separate her students into different groups.
What is eye color?
These are the three qualities that tests need to have to ensure meaningful results, yield consistent scores, and accurately predict knowledge.
What are standardization, reliability, and validity?
This portion of the cerebral cortex lies just behind the forehead and is involved in speaking and muscle movements, as well as in making plans and judgements.
What is the frontal lobe?
This is the form of processing that begins with thought and flows down to the lower functions such as senses.
What is top-down processing?
The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy a need.
What is the Drive-Reduction Theory?
This experiment where college students took on roles of prisoners and wardens was found to be unethical and concluded after only a week of testing.
What is the Stanford prison experiment?
This aptitude test is the most widely used intelligence test, with 11 sub-tests in verbal and performance areas.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)?
This is a series of X-Ray photographs taken from different angles and combined by computer into a composite representation of a slice through the body.
What is a CT or CAT Scan?
An experienced chef noticing the complex flavors of a dish more readily than a customer is an example of variation in this sensory threshold.
What is absolute threshold?
This is the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.
What is the James-Lange Theory?
This experimenter had subjects press a button to administer a false electric shock to an actor, up to the point of lethality.
Who is Stanley Milgram?