In an experiment, the experimenter manipulates ______ in order to have an effect on the ______.
What is the Independent Variable and the Dependent Variable?
100
When the _____ (electrical signal) reaches the synapse of the neuron it releases _____.
What is action potential and neurotransmitters?
100
Two types of photoreceptors that respond to light falling on them; one is sensitive to color and bright light and the other is sensitive to dim lighting and changes in your periphery vision.
What are Cones and Rods?
100
Failing to notice an unexpected stimulus in one's field of vision when paying attention to something else.
What is inattentional blindness?
100
______ is when witnesses talk to other witnesses, or others involved, about the crime and bias their own memory of the crime. This effect often leads to witnesses misremembering, often crucial, facts of the crime.
What is the Misinformation Effect?
200
The measure of how strongly two variables are related to one another and the direction of the relationship (not to be confused with causation).
What is Correlation?
200
When the left hemisphere is responsible for the right side of your body and vice versa.
What is Contralateral Organization?
200
The layer of cells in the back of the eyeball that are sensitive to light and trigger nerve impulses that pass via the optic nerve to the brain where an image is formed.
What is the Retina/fovea?
200
When you are at a gathering and someone outside of your conversation says your name and you begin to attend to that conversation rather than the one you were attending to.
What is the Cocktail Party Effect?
200
a.k.a. Photospreads: sets of pictures given to eye witnesses to identify the perpetrator. The photospread is filled with "foils," people they know to be innocent, and one "target" suspect.
What is a Police Lineup?
300
Refers to the consistency or dependability of direct and indirect observations includes, Inter-rater _____ and Test-retest _____.
What is Reliability?
300
The cortices in the brain control sensation and movement in your body _______ _______. (Hint: NOT lobes)
What is the motor cortex and somatosensory cortex?
300
Processing several aspects of a stimulus at the same time.
What is Parallel Processing?
300
Failure to notice a change in a stimulus.
What is Change Blindness?
300
The thing created by using false information feedback manipulation, where someone is told that something happened or shown a picture and made to believe it happened.
What is a false memory?
400
A variable whose effect cannot be separated from that of the independent variable you've chosen.
What are Confounding Variables?
400
Name all four lobes of the cerebral cortex.
Frontal lobe, Parietal lobe, Occipital lobe, and Temporal lobe.
400
The phenomena when a person believes that their family, close friend, spouse, pet, or even themselves, has been replaced with an imposter.
What is Capgras Delusion?
400
Process by which a procedure changes from being highly controlled (requiring a lot of attention), to requiring very little attention.
What is automatization?
400
An organization dedicated to overturning false convictions using DNA, and other, evidence that wasn't available at the time of the original trial.
What is the Innocence Project?
500
Similar to experimental research, except that random assignment to conditions was not used.
What is a Quasi-Experimental design?
500
Name all five of the basic parts of a neuron.
Soma/cell body, Dendrites, Axon, Myelin Sheath, and Synapse
500
Two approaches to perception: one is the development of pattern recognition through the use of contextual information, and the other starts at sensory input (stimulus).
What is Top-down and Bottom-up processing?
500
A demonstration of interference in the reaction time of a task and the automatization of reading, when asked to identify the color of text rather than the word.
What is the Stroop Effect?
500
Type of memory bias in which a question is asked by some sort of lower or upper bound.
Example of a question that might invoke this bias: Do you think the population of California is below 30 million people?