Research Methods
Experiment
Responsible for fear/anxiety response associated with anger
Amygdala
Ones ability to focus on a single speaker in a crowded room.
Cocktail party effect
What is the term used when a conditioned stimulus is forgotten?
Extinction
A child is lost in a park, gathering the attention of many adults yet nobody does anything, what term is used to define this?
The bystander effect
Which research method eliminates researcher bias?
Double-Blind Study
What part of the brain is associated with speech/understanding?
Broca's Area
What mixture is the sense of touch based on?
Warmth, Cold, Pressure, Pain
A mother slaps a boys hand when they go out to reach the hot stovetop, what is this an example of?
Positive Punishment
A girl is deciding what skincare product to purchase, she sees that one of the products has a famous actress promoting the brand, so she buys that specific brand, what type of persuasion is this?
Peripheral Route To Persuasion.
A single group of people in prison are being studied for the effects of prison life. The study goes on for 6 years, what time of study is this?
Longitudinal
What are all 4 lobes?
Frontal, Temporal, Parietal, Occipital
A man cannot see a flame from more than 30 miles away, what has he reached?
Absolute threshold
The name of the person who conducted the Little Albert experiment.
John B. Watson
A boy goes to a homeowner and offers to mow their lawn for 10 dollars. Then after they accept he offers to clean their windows for 50 dollars, what technique is being employed?
Foot-In-The-Door-Technique
The correlation coefficient of +1 indicates what type of relationship between 2 variables?
Positive, Strong, or Direct relationship.
During a lobotomy, what part of the brain is damaged
Frontal lobe/Corpus Collosum
Name one other relevant structure of the middle ear?
Eardrum, Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup.
Famous psychologist that produced the Bobo Doll experiment to measure the effects of observational learning-
Alfred Bandura
A hiring manager prefers hiring people of similar backgrounds/culture compared to others with no connection to their background, What implicit action is being used?
Out-of-group homogeneity bias
This ethical principle states that participants have the right to withdraw from the study at any time.
Voluntary participation.
Ventromedial Hypothalamus
Most color-deficient people lack 1 or both of these cones.
Red and Green cones
A reinforced schedule where we wait for a specific number of responses, utilizing the desired behavior we reinforce.
Fixed Ratio Reinforcement
A man is walking on the street, as they do, a homeless person collapses, yet the man continues to walk, thinking somebody else will help. What term may be related to this?
Diffusion of Responsibility