Fields in Psychology
Field of psychology that is concerned with natural selection traits and the promotion of the survival of a species.
Evolutionary Psychology
The type of bias that has us believing we should have known it all along (Monday Morning Quarterback).
Hindsight Bias
This is the standard used to establish that the outcome of a research study did NOT happen by change. We say the results are statistically __________.
Significant
This structure of the brain helps to bind the left and right hemispheres. If severed the two hemispheres cannot communicate with each other.
Corpus Callosum
The filed of psychology that concerns itself with human mental processes including thinking.
Cognitive Psychology
These are the carefully worded descriptions of the parts of a study.
Operational Definitions
A ___________ is a picture that shows us how spread out a dataset is. It is represented using a bell curve.
This lobe of the brain is responsible for managing our hearing. It is located on the side of the head just above the ears.
Temporal Lobe
The discipline of psychology that is concerned with the differences between sexes and social constructs of such.
Gender Psychology
A third variable (other than the independent variable) that may have caused unwanted change in the dependent variable.
Confounding Variable
When results are consistent over time they are said to be ______________.
Reliable
This lobe of the brain is responsible for processing our vision. It is located at the back/bottom of the head.
Occipital Lobe
The field of psychology that concerns its with how our genes and our environmental influence our behavior.
Behavior Genetics
This type of descriptive research method is one that examines one individual in depth and produces large amounts of data but cannot be generalized to other populations.
Case Study
This is the minimum percentage required in order for results to be considered statistically significant and did not occur by chance.
5% (or .05)
The cortex of the brain responsible for helping us to process sensory information. Located at the front of the parietal lobe.
Somatosensory Cortex
The discipline of psychology that concerns itself with an individual's grown potential by looking at the whole person.
Humanistic Psychology
An experimental study where neither the researchers nor the participants know to which group they are assigned (control group or experimental group).
Double-blind Procedure
The numerical representation of a correlation is a number from -1 to +1. If the results of a correlational study yielded an r coefficient of -.34 would that be a positive correlation, negative correlation, or no correlation.
Negative Correlation
This gland in the brain is responsible for managing the body's entire hormonal system.
Pituitary Gland