Misc
Reading & TED talk
Social & Developmental Methods
Cognitive, Neural & Clinical Methods
Big Data
100
How does science treat authority?
What is with skepticism?
100
This error involves incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis whereas this error involves incorrectly failing to reject the null.
What is Type 1, 2?
100
One way of studying development is to track the same people over time, whereas another way is to test people of different ages at the same time. These are called ___ versus ___ studies.
What is longitudinal, cross-sectional?
100
Neurons are pretty dumb in that they can only do these 2 things.
What is fire or not fire?
100
Big Data has been used in these countries that we discussed.
What is US, Haiti?
200
Decision-making studies have shown us these kinds of biases (discussed in class).
What is availability; dilution?
200
For most studies, you want your ___ level to be less than .05 and your ___ to be as big as possible.
What is alpha; sample size?
200
These are hard for a computer, easy for a human.
What is image recognition, approximation, speech processing, subjective evaluation, having an opinion?
200
These are the 3 ways you can know things about the brain.
What is observation, lab experiments, nature experiments?
200
RFIDs stand for:
What is Radio Frequency Identification Device?
300
What was the issue with the lab study on resveratrol?
What is artificial conditions and lack of generalizability?
300
The opposite of the null hypothesis is this.
What is alternative hypothesis?
300
These are the demographics of an average Mturker.
What is female, young (21-30), educated (Bachelor's degree), and low-moderate income (under 40K)?
300
This brain method relies on oxygenation of blood, whereas this brain method relies on electrical signals.
What is fMRI and EEG?
300
Name some uses of big data.
What is self-driving cars, streamlined grocery stores, epidemiology, personalized online experiences, surveillance, etc?
400
What is an example of a "crappy control group"?
What is too low/too high dosage?
400
This type of analyses analyzes the results from many different studies to draw conclusions.
What is meta-analysis?
400
Since babies can't talk, these are methods used in studying infants.
What is preferential looking and habituation?
400
These are types of cognitive and clinical measures covered in lecture.
What is implicit measures (IAT), eye tracking, thinking aloud, psychophysiology, TAT, behavioral maps?
400
Name some sources of big data collection.
What are cell phones, computers, browsers, stores, credit cards?
500
Clinical trials often pit their new drug against ___ instead of the existing drugs on the market.
What is placebo?
500
According to Dan Gilbert's TED talk, we drastically underestimate this about ourselves.
What is the extent to which our future selves will change in terms of our preferences, decisions, etc?
500
These are some of the uses for virtual reality.
What is facial morphing (presidential candidates), making people exercise more/be more green; form false memories; endorse the rape myth; be persuaded?
500
Based on watching brain damage patients and doing medical experiments like surgical brain mapping & frontal lobotomies, we now know that different areas of the brain do different things. This is called:
What is localization?
500
Big data is so big that we need what?
What are supercomputers and new numerical terms (e.g., petrabyte)?
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