IRB & Ethics
This term refers to the ethical requirement for researchers to be honest and transparent with participants about the nature and risks of the study.
What is informed consent?
This “magic” number is actually a range of items which our working memory can hold at once, according to Miller’s famous theory.
What is 7 plus or minus 2 items?
This psychologist was a Russian physiologist whose research on dogs, conditioned reflexes, and classical conditioning influenced the rise of behaviorism in psychology.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
This phenomena in social psychology might describe a situation where you initially assist your friend with moving a single object, but end up moving their entire house for them.
What is the foot-in-the-door technique?
The acronym CNF stands for this event held by PSA that connects UCI students to various opportunities.
What is the Career Networking Fair?
This document must be submitted to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for approval before beginning a study involving human participants.
What is a research proposal (or protocol)?
This type of memory involves remembering personal events (as opposed to remembering facts) such as remembering what you did at your last birthday.
What is episodic memory?
This naturalist's theory of natural selection laid the foundation for understanding behavior as an adaptive trait shaped by evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This effect describes the situation where individuals are less likely to act due to the diffusion of responsibility among other observers.
What is the bystander effect?
This is the date and time of PSA’s upcoming banquet.
When is June 3, 5 - 8 PM?
This ethical principal is the obligation to minimize potential harm and maximize potential benefits for research participants.
What is beneficence?
This type of long-term memory includes skills and conditioned responses that happen automatically, such as flinching at a loud noise or improving at a task without consciously remembering the practice.
What is implicit/non-declarative memory?
This psychologist proposed that children develop cognitively through four distinct stages of increasingly complex thinking.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This cognitive bias may describe a situation where you attribute someone else's bad driving to their personal traits while excusing your own as a product of being late for work.
What is the actor-observer bias?
This personality disorder is characterized by unstable moods, impulsive behaviors, fear of abandonment, and difficulty maintaining relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This is the process used after a study to inform participants of the study’s true purpose, especially when deception was involved.
What is debriefing?
This effect makes it difficult to name the color of a word when the word itself is the name of a different color.
What is Stroop effect?
This psychologist is known for their controversial experiment regarding the extent to which individuals would obey orders from an authority figure
Who is Stanley Milgram?
This effect, which is primarily related to familiarity, states that simply being around a specific person will produce a tendency towards attraction.
What is (the) Mere Exposure (Effect)?
This is the tendency for individual effort to be diminished when one is part of a group working toward a common goal.
What is social loafing?
This document outlines the basic ethical principles in research involving human subjects, created in 1979.
What is the Belmont Report?
This perceptual phenomenon occurs when conflicting visual and auditory speech cues combine to create a new perceived sound, like hearing “da” when seeing “ga” and hearing “ba.”
What is McGurk effect?
This humanistic psychologist emphasized unconditional positive regard and developed person-centered therapy.
Who is Carl Rogers?
These predictors of break ups, named after a biblical reference and proposed by Gottman, include such behaviors as stonewalling and defensiveness.
What are the Four Horsemen? (Four Horsemen of the apocalypse, Four Horsemen of the relationship apocalypse, other variations acceptable)
This disorder, often targeted by ABA therapy, is diagnosed with a dimensional approach, not categorical, in the DSM and is commonly known by a three letter acronym.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?