Research Methods
Neurobiology
Development
Sensation and Perception
Learning
100
The part of the experiment that is manipulated by the experimenter
What is the independent variable
100
Long extension of the neuron that carries an action potential.
What is axon
100
Studied moral development using the case of study approach.
Who is Kohlberg
100
The part of the eye that focuses the light coming in.
What is lens.
100
The father of operant conditioning
Who is B.F. Skinner
200
Research Method by which people are unknowingly observed in their native environments.
What is naturalistic observation
200
Lobe of the cerebral cortex that contains the sensory cortex.
What is parietal
200
Adjusting one's schema to fit new information.
What is accommodation.
200
According to the monocular depth cue, relative height, things closer appear to be
What is lower.
200
Another word for observational learning.
What is modeling.
300
Any inert substance given to the control group in an experiment.
What is placebo.
300
Part of the limbic system that contains "pleasure centers."
What is hypothalamus
300
Knowing that items continue to exist even when we no longer sense them.
What is object permanence.
300
The sense of knowing the location of our limbs.
What is kinesthesis
300
The sudden reappearance of an extinguished conditioned behavior following a rest period.
What is spontaneous recovery.
400
Value of the correlation coefficient if there is a perfect relationship where as one variable goes up the other goes down.
What is -1
400
Part of brain located in left temporal lobe that controls speech comprehension.
What is Wernicke's
400
Knowing that volume and area remain constant even if the shape of an object is changed.
What is conservation.
400
Focusing one's attention of a particular stimulus and blocking out everything else.
What is selective attention.
400
Reinforcers that are not innately satisfying, such as money.
What are secondary
500
A sample in which the trait examined varies symmetrically around the mean.
What is normal distribution
500
Parkinson's patients have lower than normal amounts of this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine
500
Type of intelligence that describes one's ability to reason quickly and abstractly.
What is fluid.
500
Distance of an object from our face is determined by how different the images from the two eyes are.
What is retinal disparity
500
Promising a reward for doing what one already likes to do causes one to lose their intrinsic motivation to do it.
What is over justification effect.
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