A term used when asking if the study represents what happens in real life
What is ecological validity?
100
Both genetics and the environment contribute to individual variations in human behavior
What is Behavioral Genetics?
100
A social perception of an individual in term of group membership or physical attributes.
What is a stereotype?
100
The difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help.
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
100
Sequence of behavior whose goal is to harm other individuals.
What is Agression?
200
A term used when asking if the research is relevant to other cultures or if it is ethnocentric
What is cross-cultural validity?
200
Depression may be the result of the interaction of a genetic vulnerability and traumatic environmental stimuli in early childhood
What is Diathesis stress model?
200
Threat when feelings cause emotional distress under pressure that may undermine performance
What is Spotlight Anxiety?
200
Increase in competence if he or she receives assistance to perform a task that is just slightly beyond his or her current abilities.
What is Scaffolding?
200
Agressive act which abuses an individual directly or indirectly.
What is Violence?
300
Performed under highly controlled conditions, with the goal of establishing cause and effect relationships between two variables
What is an experiment?
300
The statistical synthesis of the data from a set of studies that yields a quantitative summary of the pulled results
What is Meta-analysis?
300
The media, parents, and other members of our culture
What are gatekeepers?
300
Approach to organizing classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. It differs from group work and it has been described as "structuring positive interdependence."
What is Cooperative Learning?
300
Male hormone for both sexual arousal and aggression.
What is Testosterone?
400
The variable that the researcher deliberatly manipulates
What is Independent Variable (IV)?
400
Species who have characteristics which are better suited to the environment will be more likely to breed then pass on traits.
What is the Theory of Natural Selection?
400
A single experience with an individual from a group will then be generalized to the whole group.
What is the Grain of Truth Hypothesis?
400
Behavior exhibited by an individual attracted (maintaining proximity) to and dependent on a specific person or object for emotional satisfaction.
What is Attachment Behavior?
400
Inflated sense of one's importance
What is Egotism Narcissism?
500
The variable that is being measured after the manipulation of the Independent Variable
What is Dependent Variable (DV)?
500
Errors in thinking
What is cognitive dissonance?
500
The result of stereotypes - when people see a relationship between two variables even when there is none.
What is an Illusory Correlation?
500
Phenomenon that both babies and mothers imitate each others movements and emotional expressions, and take turns to initiate new movements.
What is International Synchrony?
500
Personality type who passionately cares about being superior to others.