Cognitive
a mental representation or category for a class of objects, events, or ideas, helping us organize and understand the world
what is a concept?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
this social phenomenon argues that the more people present in a situation, the less likely any individual is to help a person in distress
what is the bystander effect?
a numerical variable that can take on any value within a given range, including infinite values between any two points
what is a continuous variable?
this psychology professor graduated from carthage and used to have barnhart and cameron as professors
when your brain starts with the basic sensory details, like lines, colors, and shapes, and then builds up to a complete perception without using prior knowledge or expectations
what is bottom-up processing?
The amount of time a person must be experiencing depressive symptoms for before they can be diagnosed with major depressive disorder.
2 Weeks
the bias where the perception of one positive characteristic (like being conventionally attractive) influences other perceived characteristics in a positive way
what is the halo effect?
the degree to which a research study can establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable
what is internal validity?
barnharts old stage name when he was a performing magician
who is Magic Tony?
a type of long-term memory that does not require conscious thought and allows for actions to be performed by rote
what is implicit memory?
This document organizes and stores criteria for each mental disorder
DSM-5
individuals tend to decrease their effort when working in groups as compared to working individually
what is social loafing?
measure of variability for the average distance that scores deviate from their mean
what is standard deviation?
Dr. Cameron plays this sport competitively
what is squash?
the brain's ability to focus on one auditory stimulus while ignoring others in a noisy environment
what is the cocktail party effect?
This disorder is characterized by reoccurring, distressing dreams and intrusive memories of a life-threatening experience
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
this is the tendency to attribute one’s successes to personal characteristics and failures to factors beyond one’s control
what is self-serving bias?
μ
what is the population mean?
this is one of the studies happening in the MAGI-lab
what is handwritten word perception, humor and attention, or chat gpt magic tricks
a chimpanzee used in a study to determine whether chimps could learn a human language, who also happened to be breastfed by his human woman caretaker...
who was Nim Chimpsky?
A condition where a person loses their sense of reality, often experiencing hallucinations and delusions.
Psychosis
individuals compare themselves to others who are less proficient or worse off in order to feel better about themselves
a statistical procedure used to test hypotheses concerning two related samples selected from populations in which the variance in one or both populations is unknown
what is a related samples t-test?
The field of psychology that Ryan is pursuing after Carthage
School Psychology