Accepting something as true because it has always been that way.
What is tenacity
100
Microscopic unit of the nervous system.
What is a neuron.
100
The number of stages of brain development.
What are 5.
200
The group directly tested by an experimenter.
What is the experimental group.
200
Predominant method used by experimenters to study a correlation between two variables.
What is an experiment.
200
Taking someone’s/something’s word on the matter.
What is authority.
200
Neurons are composed of cell bodies that contain this.
What is the nucleus.
200
The stage that involves the maturation of the lower brain structure and is completely developed by 12 months of age.
What is the first stage.
300
A variable which an experimenter changes in the experimental group.
What is independent variable.
300
A change in the dependent variable despite the independent variable or the actions of the experimenter.
What is a placebo effect.
300
Something held by everyone, including scientists, because they are reasonable.
What is a priori beliefs.
300
The type of nerve fibers that conduct impulses away from the cell body (motor).
What are efferent fibers.
300
The stage in which children will begin to discriminate between different objects because of their ability to concentrate.
What is the third stage.
400
A statistical index which measures the relationship between two factors.
What is a correlation.
400
The norm or standard against which observations of the experimental group are compared.
What is the control group.
400
Beneficial if the original assumptions are correct.
What is reason.
400
When at rest, the chemicals inside of a neuron are charged in this manner.
What is negatively charged.
400
When a child is this age, the fourth stage of brain development is complete.
What is 12-years-old.
500
A distortion introduced into research by the way the scientist chooses the subjects or groups.
What is a bias.
500
He believes there will be paradigm shift in psychology as researchers realize that people are neither machine nor animal.
Who is VanLeeuwen.
500
Superior to tenacity because our own experience can be used as a basis for drawing conclusions.
What is common sense.
500
The process of a chemical reaction taking place, allowing impulses to continue to the next neuron and then to a different locations of the nervous system is called.
What is synaptic transmission.
500
This stage of development occurs simultaneously with the first stage of development.