Statistics
Traditional level of significance for a p-value
What is 0.05?
The type of study design that asks, "does x cause a change in y?"
What is a causal design?
This is what "F" stands for when discussing the "Fz" electrode
What is frontal?
The space between neurons
A variable that influences both the independent and dependent variable and therefore can distort the relationship between them and lead to misleading results
What is a confounder?
The type of variable that age is
What is continuous / scalar?
A testable prediction derived from theories and literature
What is a hypothesis?
The electrode that provides a safety connection and a zero reference for common mode noise rejection
What is the ground?
An all-or-nothing potential
What is an action potential?
Z-scores greater than or equal to the absolute value of _____ are typically considered outliers
What is 3?
When all of the variables are correlated with one another, this is called ______.
What is collinearity?
In order for a study to be ethical, the _____ must outweigh the _______.
What are the benefits and risks?
The type of potential that EEG records
What are graded potentials (EPSPs or IPSPs)?
Resting membrane potential
What is -70 mV?
The four key components of a researchable question
What are a population of interest, variables of interest, an aim, and a time frame?
Test we can run to determine normality (in addition to looking at a histogram)
What is a Shapiro-Wilk test?
Correlations, regressions, and recognizing covariates are important analyses for this study design
What is a relational study design?
The wave frequency that Hans Berger discovered and called "elektroenkephalogram"
What are alpha waves?
Double jeopardy: The change in potential (in mV) necessary to go from RMP to threshold
What is 15 mV?
The five steps of the scientific method
What are 1. ask a new question, 2. formulate a hypothesis, 3. design / perform an experiment, 4. collect / analyze data, and 5. draw conclusions?
Double jeopardy: The type of correction we use for a repeated measures ANOVA where sphericity assumption check is violated
What is a Greenhouse-Geisser correction?
What is Primo Search?
One of the characteristics of stage I sleep EEG waves (there are multiple possible answers)
What are a loss of the posterior dominant rhythm (PDR), post-occipital sharp transients of sleep (POSTs), and vertex waves?
What is the delayed closing of potassium-gated channels?
The drug that is associated with many birth defects because researchers didn't know to test on pregnant women / fetuses
What is thalidomide?