Research Methods
This bias occurs when people believe they could have predicted an outcome after it has happened.
What is hindsight bias?
The school of thought that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function.
What is Functionalism?
This part of the brain is closely associated with learning and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
In this type of conditioning, behaviors are learned through rewards and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
Drugs that alter perception, mood, and behavior are classified as this.
What are psychoactive drugs?
The method used to ensure participants have an equal chance of being assigned to either group in an experiment.
What is random assignment?
This perspective emphasizes the influence of unconscious drives and childhood experiences on behavior.
What is the Psychodynamic perspective?
The basic building block of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
his type of conditioning associates a neutral stimulus with an involuntary response.
What is classical conditioning?
These drugs increase neural activity, leading to heightened alertness and energy.
What are stimulants?
This method involves observing subjects in their natural environment without interference.
What is naturalistic observation?
This psychological approach, founded by Wundt, focused on breaking down mental processes into basic components.
What is Structuralism?
These neurons carry information from the senses to the brain and spinal cord.
What are sensory neurons?
A relationship between two variables, but without establishing a cause-effect, is called this.
What is correlation?
Over time, you need more of a drug to achieve the same effect. This is known as what?
What is tolerance?
To establish this, a researcher must conduct an experiment with a controlled independent variable and observe changes in the dependent variable.
What is causation?
This subfield examines how behaviors and mental processes have evolved due to natural selection.
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
This brain structure is key in aggression and fear responses.
What is the amygdala?
In an experiment, this variable is manipulated to observe its effect on another variable.
What is the independent variable?
This type of drug causes sensory distortions and altered perceptions.
What are hallucinogens?
This type of study deeply investigates one individual or group to explore phenomena.
What is a case study?
Freud founded this theory that emphasizes unconscious desires and conflicts.
What is Psychoanalysis?
The connection between ADHD and this brain structure involves regulating arousal and attention.
. What is the reticular formation?
This is the response variable measured by researchers after the manipulation of the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
A person’s reliance on a drug due to physical or emotional need is called this.
What is dependence?