Social Psychology
Was an unethical experiment conducted in California in which subjects were tested on how their given societal roles impacted their behaviors in a particular environment.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
This lobe of the brain is responsible for spatial awareness, attention, and motor control.
Parietal lobe
This disorder is characterized by the following symptoms: impulsivity, deceitfulness, irresponsibility, and lack of remorse.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
The top-down way our brains organize and interpret information, putting it into context.
Perception
This variable is the aspect of an experimental situation that is being intentionally manipulated by the researcher.
Independent variable
This experiment tested if participants would obey an authority figure, despite doing something unethical.
Milgram Experiment
The brain structure responsible for allowing new information to be stored in memory.
The hippocampus
This disorder has four subtypes including: paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, and undifferentiated.
Schizophrenia
The minimum stimulation needed to register a particular stimulus 50% of the time.
Absolute Threshold of Sensation
This type of variable is a type of independent variable that can vary and negatively affect results.
Confounding variable
This experiment tested conformity by asking a subject for their answer to a problem and having surrounding participants (really actors) all state the wrong answer.
The Asch experiment
This type of brain cell sends signals to muscles to control movement.
Motor neuron
This disorder is characterized by the inability to recognize faces.
Prosopagnosia
This rule involves the want to fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object.
Rule of closure
This type of observation involves collecting data through observing what is happening in real-world settings.
Naturalistic observation
The concept that people overestimate their abilities.
Overconfidence bias
Part of the autonomic nervous system, this system is involved in the "fight or flight" response.
Sympathetic nervous system
The presence of multiple psychological disorders simultaneously in a person.
Comorbidity
This law says that we perceive differences on a longitudinal and not linear scale.
Weber's Law
This design in a study helps eliminate experimenter expectancy effects by having both the participants and the experimenter unaware of the condition assignments.
Double-blind design
The concept of two attitudes or behaviors being inconsistent.
Cognitive Dissonance
This brain recording technique involves recording electrical currents produced by the brain.
Electroencephalograph (EEG)
This model explains psychological disorders through the interaction of predispositions and exposure to stressful life experiences.
Diathesis-stress model
This type of depth cue identifies relative size and height, linear perspective, texture gradient, and interposition.
Monocular cues
This type of experimental bias happens when participants have a tendency to respond in a particular way regardless of knowledge or beliefs relevant to performing the task.
Response bias