Research & Evidence
This research method involves observing behavior in a natural setting without manipulating variables.
What is Naturalistic Observation?
This part of the brain helps regulate balance, coordination, and motor learning.
What is the cerebellum?
This type of memory briefly holds sensory information, such as visual images or sounds.
What is sensory memory?
In classical conditioning, this stimulus naturally triggers a response without prior learning.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
This Russian physiologist is famous for experiments involving dogs, which helped establish the concept of classical conditioning.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
In an experiment, this procedure involves sorting participants into groups in a way that minimizes the influence of potential confounding variables.
What is random assignment?
This neurotransmitter is most associated with mood regulation and is often linked to depression.
What is serotonin?
This memory technique involves grouping information into meaningful units.
What is chunking?
Receiving praise for completing homework, which increases the likelihood of repeating the behavior, is an example of this.
This psychologist is associated with operant conditioning, particularly in regard to schedules of reinforcement.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This type of graph shows the relationship between two variables, but does not prove cause and effect.
What is a scatterplot?
This division of the nervous system controls involuntary functions, such as heart rate and digestion.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
This phenomenon explains why eyewitness memories can be altered by misleading information after an event.
Learning that occurs by watching and imitating others is best explained by this theory.
What is social learning theory?
This experiment demonstrated that children could learn aggressive behavior through observation.
What is Bandura's Bobo doll experiment?
A researcher finds that as study time increases, test scores also increase. This describes a ___________ _____________[two-word mathematical term].
What is a positive correlation?
Light waves are converted into neural impulses by photoreceptors in this part of the eye.
What is the retina?
Failing to notice an unexpected object because attention is focused elsewhere is called this.
What is inattentional blindness?
In operant conditioning, behaviors are shaped through reinforcement of successive approximations using this technique.
What is shaping?
This psychologist demonstrated how misleading questions can alter eyewitness memory.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
This statistical measure indicates how much scores differ from the mean and reflects the variability of a data set.
What is standard deviation?
This hormone, released by the adrenal glands, plays a key role in the body’s fight-or-flight response.
What is epinephrine (adrenaline)?
This theory of intelligence argues that intelligence is a single general ability underlying all cognitive skills.
What is Spearman's g factor? (Would also accept the theory of g or general intelligence)
When a conditioned response weakens because the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus, this process is occuring.
What is extinction?
This perspective in psychology emphasized mental processes, such as memory and thinking, partially replacing behaviorism in the 1950s and 60s.