Unit 1
Method followed such that neither the participants nor the researcher are aware if who is in the experimental or control group while experiment is going on.
Double Blind Procedure
States what needs need to be satisfied in what order. Survival and safety come first.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Substances that speed up body processes, including autonomic nervous system functions such as heart and respiration rate.
Stimulants
The brain's interpretation of sensory messages.
Perception
A biological condition (caused by brain damage) in which an individual cannot encode new memories but can recall events already in memory.
Anterograde Amnesia
Research method that involves observing participants in their natural habitat without interacting with them.
Naturalistic Observation
When we drop below a certain body weight our hypothalamus sends a signal to eat more and when we go above it sends a signal to stop eating and raises our metabolic rate to burn more calories.
Set Point Theory
All or none principal
Location of the visual cortex. Part of the brain that processes visual sensations.
Occipital Lobe
Older information learned previously interferes with the recall of info learned more recently.
Proactive Interference
Statistical measure of relation between two variables.
Correlation
Rewards that we get from outside ourselves.
Extrinsic Motivators
Neurotransmitters associated with pain control. Released in exercise, childbirth, and times of great pain.
Endorphins
Snail shaped and fluid filled. As sound waves move through the fluid, hair cells move.
Cochlea
Creative thinking- ability to more easily find new solutions to problems.
Divergent Thinking
A bell shaped curve that represents a normal distribution of scores, about 65 percent of scores fall within one standard deviation of the mean.
Normal Curve
Occurs when you must choose between two unattractive outcomes
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Controls voluntary muscle movements
Decreasing responsiveness to stimuli due to constant stimulation.
Sensory Adaptation
A problem solving rule that guarantees the right solution by using a formula or other "foolproof" method.
Algorithm
Just selecting a sample of people and including them in an experiment will affect the performance of the sample, as the chosen participants will try to please the researcher.
Hawthorne Effect
Carl Rogets personality theory based on the belief that people are innately good and require certain things from interactions with others.
Unconditional Positive Regard
Contains the sensory cortex and located behind the frontal lobe on top of the brain.
Parietal Lobes
Translation of incoming stimuli into neutral signals.
Transduction
Belief Perseverance