Practice
What is 3?
The study of the biology of the nervous system.
What is Neuroscience?
Anything claiming to be Science but missing one of its three key features.
What is Pseudoscience?
In an experiment, the variable you're manipulating.
What is the Independent Variable?
Mean, median, and mode are three descriptive statistics of this aspect of a dataset.
What is Central Tendency?
The appropriation of another person's idea without giving proper credit.
What is Plagiarism?
TOPIC:
Reliability & Validity
An issue of Reliability in some metric means that the experiment has problems with this type of Validity.
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What is Internal Validity?
A water-bound animal that is one of the only two mammals in the world to lay eggs.
What is a platypus?
The category of neurosciences in which a researcher tries to understand human abilities like emotion or physical skills.
What is Applied Neuroscience?
This 'Way of Knowing' relies on one's gut feelings, a poor basis for conducting Science.
What is Intuition?
A scale of measurement of measurement in which units have an order, but no uniform distance between them.
What is Ordinal?
This descriptive statistic represents the influence of one level of the variable you're manipulating on the variable you're measuring.
What is the Effect Size?
What is a Reference Manager?
The tallest building in the world.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
A specific field of Neuroscience studying, for instance, the genetics and specific ions underlying nervous system biology.
What is Molecular Neuroscience?
One of the three features of Science.
What is 'Follow systematic empiricism,' 'Answer an empirical question,' or 'Be public knowledge'?
The type of Power Analysis used to discern an ideal sample size.
What is an a-priori power analysis?
An analysis that yields inferential statistics used to assess the difference between two groups in some variable of interest.
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What is a t-test?
This type of journal may also be described as 'pay-to-publish.'
What is a Predatory Journal?
The oldest city that has been continuously inhabited.
For instance, a research project in this field might investigate some neuroscience related to ADHD.
What is Clinical Neuroscience?
What is Operationalization?
It can be roughly defined as 'how effectively a measurement captures a target construct.'
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What is Validity?
This is the type of analysis we'll use when we have 2+ manipulated variables with at least 2 levels each.
What is a Factorial ANOVA?
This journal metric represents the number of citations an article in this journal can expect to receive, weighted by prestige and relevance.
What is the Scimago Journal Rank?
The highest-rated movie on IMDB.
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What is Shawshank Redemption?
If you were curious about how your spine carries information from the brain to the muscles correctly, you might call this type of Applied Neuroscientist.
What is a Behavioral Neuroscientist?
When a hypothesis is indeed testable/falsifiable, it is said to be this.
What is Empirical?
We try to control for this in an experiment, which can cause random fluctuations in data unrelated to the variable we're manipulating.
This is the statistic that researchers use to assess the likelihood of a Type II error.
What is Power?
A metric that can be used to assess both journals and authors.
What is the H-Index?