Vocab
Needed for studies to be replicated; and is specific and measurable of something within the study such as the Independent variable or the dependent variable.
What is operational definition?
What is zone of proximal development?
Experiments require random assignment to control for confounding variables between the groups, and this other requirement.
What is manipulation of the independent variable?
What is dependent variable?
Cognitive bias that the world is inherently fair, where good actions are rewarded and bad actions are punished. (you get what you deserve).
What is Just World Phenomenon?
Your current stage in Erik Erickson's 8 stages of psychosocial development. Hopefully, you discover who you are!
What is Identity v. Role Confusion?
Fake participants of a research used to deceive actual participants. Used in Asch's famous line experiment and Milgram's shock experiment on conformity.
What are confederates?
When random sampling is used correctly it allows this.
What is generalizability?
The tenticle like structure of a neuron which receive chemical messengers from adjacent neurons.
What are dendrites?
The deepest stage of sleep; which is beneficial for physical and muscle recovery.
What is NREM3 stage?
What are attachment styles?
These are the main ethical considerations when conducting research in psychology.
What are informed consent, do no harm, confidentiality, debriefing?
Parent placing extra chores to your daily routine as a result of getting a bad behavior report from school is this operant conditioning strategy.
What is positive punishment?
Results: Your Response:
Do well on the test: "I study hard, and deserve it"
Do bad on the test: "He is a bad teacher and it's not fair"
The scenario above reflects what cognitive tendency which attribute success to internal factors and failures to external factors:
What is self-serving bias?
Behavioral Psychologist John B. Watson illustrated classical conditioning by pairing a neutral stimulus to a conditioned stimulus and invoking a conditioned response in this infamous experiment.
What is Little Albert Experiment?
Two different bias or behavior changes: One is known as Hawthorne Effect, where behaviors of people change if they know they are being watched. The other is if participants' behavior changes in a way that they believe will make them liked or accepted, known as this.
What is social desirability bias?
This reinforcement schedule involves uses reinforcers in an unpredictable way based on number of responses. The most effective and resistant to extinction.
What is Variable-Ratio?
This reinforcement schedule delivers reinforcer on a set amount and after a elapsed time such as (2hours).
What is fixed-interval?
Research which gathers multiple studies to allow for increased reliability.
What is meta-analysis?