Conducting Research
A prediction stated in a way that permits it to be tested
What is a hypothesis?
Type of learning when a student begins to act like the other students he/she has been observing because they have received rewards
What is modeling?
T/F Psychophysiological methods are most common in cognitive neuroscience research
What is true?
Researchers interviewing lots children and basing their inferences on the children's responses
What is survey research?
Behavior throughout life is motivated by inner and often unconscious forces
What is psychodynamic?
Broad explanation and prediction about phenoma of interest
What is a theory?
Type of learning in which an organism responds in a particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about that type of response
What is classical conditioning?
Research that focuses on the relationship between physiological processes and behavior
What is psychophysiological methods?
Research designed to discover causal relationships between various factors
What is experimental research?
Development can be understood through studying observable behavior and environmental stimuli
What is behavioral?
Process of posing and answering questions using careful, controlled techniques that include systematic, orderly observation and the collection of data
What is the scientific method?
A form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened by its association with positive or negative consequence
What is instrumental/operant conditioning?
Device that provides a detailed, three-dimensional computer-generated image of brain activity by aiming a powerful magnetic field at the brain
What is a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining (fMRI) scan?
Studies that involve extensive in depth interviews with a particular individual or a small group of individuals
What is a case study?
Focuses on how changes/growth in the ways people know, understand and think about the world affect behavior
What is cognitive?
The group of participants chosen for an experiment
What is a sample?
This is likely to happen to behavior that receives no reinforcement or is punished
What is extinction?
Device that uses electrodes placed on the outside of the skull to record electrical activity within the brain
What is an EEG (electroencephalogram)?
Type of research used when studying the relationship between televised aggression and subsequent behavior.
What is correlational research?
Development should be viewed in terms of the interrelationship of a person's physical, cognitive, personality and social worlds
What is contextual?
What researchers measure and expect to change as a result of manipulation
What is a dependent variable?
The introduction of an unpleasant or painful stimulus or the removal of a desired stimulus that decreases the probability that a preceding behavior will occur in the future is considered this
What is punishment?
The device where a computer constructs an image of the brain by combining thousands of individual x-rays taken at slightly different angles
What is a computerized axial tomography (CAT or CT) scan?
Type of research designed specifically to test some developmental explanation and expand scientific knowledge
What is theoretical research?
Behavior is chosen through free will and motivated by our natural capacity to strive to reach our full potential
What is humanistic?