This hemisphere is associated with logical reasoning, language, and organization.
What is the left hemisphere?
100
This score is calculated by adding up all values and dividing by the number of values in the study.
What is the mean?
100
This neurotransmitter affects neurons involved with mood, sleep, and appetite, and are affected by Zoloft, Prozac, and other SSRI's.
What is serotonin?
100
These are procedures used to measure and evaluate personality traits, emotional states, aptitudes, interests, abilities, and values.
What are psychological tests?
100
This is the ability and willingness to assess claims and make judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons and evidence rather than emotion or anecdote.
What is critical thinking?
200
Objects in the left visual field are processed by this hemisphere of the occipital lobe.
What is the right hemisphere?
200
This is the term for statistics that organize and describe a data set.
What is descriptive statistics?
200
This neruotransmitter affects neurons involved in voluntary movement, learning, memory, and emotion, and abnormal levels of it are implicated in Parkinson's disease and Schizophrenia.
What is Dopamine?
200
In test construction, these are established standards of performance.
What are norms?
200
This is a now-discredited theory that different brain areas account for specific character and personality traits, which can be "read" from bumps on the skull.
What is phrenology?
300
If a picture of a ball is flashed to the right visual field in a split-brain patient, this is what this person will say she sees:
What is a ball?
300
This is a statistical value that shows how much of the difference between scores is accounted for by the independent value.
What is the effect size?
300
This neurotransmitter is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, and is involved with studying for exams, solving problems, and planning.
What is glutamate?
300
This is the ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure.
What is validity?
300
This early psychological approach emphasized the analysis of immediate experience into basic elements.
What is structuralism?
400
This hemisphere is associated with creativity, music, and art.
What is the right hemisphere?
400
These are statistical procedures that allow researchers to draw inferences about how statistically meaningful a study's results are.
What are inferential statistics?
400
These chemical substances are similar in structure to opiates, and are involved in pain reduction and pleasure enhancement.
What are endorphins?
400
This is a measure of the strength and direction of correlation that ranges in value from -1.00 to +1.00.
What is a correlation coefficient?
400
This is a type of experiment in which neither the people being studied nor the individuals running the study know who is in the control group and who is in the experimental group until after the results are tallied.
What is a double-blind study?
500
This is the name of the bundle of nerve fibers that is cut in split-brain surgery.
What is the corpus callosum?
500
This is the name for a study in which subjects are followed and periodically reassessed over a period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
500
These chemical substances are produced by the endocrine glands.
What are hormones?
500
This is the term for an association between increases in one variable and decreases in another variable.
What is a negative correlation?
500
This is the doctrine that anyone who participates in human research must do so voluntarily and must know enough about the study to make an intelligent decision about whether to take part.