Biological
The evolutionary response to protect humans from the risk of disease.
What is disgust?
The theory of how humans process incoming information, relate it to existing knowledge and use it.
What is schema theory?
This theory states that people will prioritize the in-group and discriminate against the out-group.
What is social identity theory?
This study looked at grey matter in the parietal cortex in both hemispheres after participants participated learned a juggling routine.
What is Draganski et al (2006)?
This acronym is used to support your response to an EVALUATE question.
What is TEACUP?
An MRI or fMRI
What are techniques used to study the brain?
Memory of specific events that have occurred at a given time and in a given place.
What is episodic memory?
Attention, Retention, Motivation, Potential
What are the conditions necessary for social learning?
The results of this study showed that the schema influenced encoding and retrieval.
What is Anderson and Pitchert (1978)?
This acronym is used to support critical thinking.
What is MAGEC?
A chemical released by the endocrine glands that travels through the blood to reach a target cell.
What are hormones?
This model of memory, created by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) separates memory into three stores, sensory, STM and LTM.
What is the multi-store memory model?
A significant part of the development of our personal identity is the learning and maintenance of the behaviors and norms of our own culture.
What is enculturation?
This specific gene is responsible for modulating the reaction to stressful life events.
What is the 5-HTT gene?
Protection from harm, Anonymity, Debriefing, Deception, Informed consent, Right to withdraw
What are ethical considerations?
This system of the brain plays a role in emotional regulation, memory, and addiction.
What is the limbic system?
This model of memory was created by Baddeley and Hitch (1974) and challenges the multi-store memory model.
What is the working memory model?
The grain of truth hypothesis and the illusory correlation.
What are the ways stereotypes are formed?
This research used the illusory correlation to show differences between group A and group B.
What is Hamilton and Gifford (1976)>
Researchers make choices about how to structure a study such as double-blind or single-blind.
What is the design of a study?
The structure in mammals that is used to detect pheromones and is located in the anterior nasal cavity.
What is the Vomeronasal Organ or the VNO?
The mental shortcut taken by our brains during thinking and decision-making.
What is a heuristic?
The result of moving to a new culture and engaging in a personal battle between enculturation – maintaining one’s cultural identity – and acculturation, changing one’s culture in order to fit in.
What is Accultruative Stress?
This longitudinal study is applicable to both the biological and cognitive units.
What is HM? OR What is Milner?
Researchers designed a study to quantify variables.
What is empirical evidence?