Research Methods
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A study which includes 2 groups using random assignment to control for confounding variables. Only research which may reveal causal conclusions
What is an experiment?
100
The part of the eye which is colored and acts as a way to dilate or constrict the pupil.
What is the Iris?
100
The 2 outer most parts of the ear.
What is pinna (auricle), and auditory meatus (ear canal)?
100
5 basic tastes involved in gustation.
What are salty, sweet, sour, bitter, umami?
100
Neurons which send messages from you skin receptors to your brain.
What are sensory neurons? afferent neurons?
100
The idea that a study can be applicable to the target population. Is mostly lacking in case studies.
What is generalizable?
200
A random sample of participants reveal a coefficient score of -.95 in regards to more screen time throughout the day is correlated with less REM sleep throughout the night.
What is correlational study?
200
Light enters through this hole in your eye.
What is the pupil?
200
The eardrum is also called this.
What is tympanic membrane?
200
The intersection of sensation and perception; this process turns mechanical energy (sound, light and others) into a electric neural energy, setting of action potential and neural communication.
What is transduction?
200
the 3 colors in cones are associated with vision according to this theory.
What is trichromatic theory?
200
A research which wants to conduct a study on the effects of agonist (binds to receptors and activates) and antagonist (binds to receptors but does not activate) agents. The agents have not been tested on animals, and may violate which part of research methods.
What is ethical violation? Protection from harm?
300
An in depth study of a group of participants which have had surgery on corpus callosum (split brain) and the psychological effects in social situations.
What is a case study?
300
Back of the eye where light receptors are located.
What is the retina?
300
The snail shape part of the ear where cilias are located.
What is the cochlea?
300
These are located in the grooves of our tongues which serve as chemical molecule receptors.
What are papillae, tastebuds?
300
A quantifiable exact procedure of a study, So that it can be replicated.
What is operational definition?
300
When conducting research on elementary school children researchers must first obtain this.
What is informed assent?
400
Recording the psychological effects of education and working part-time. Researchers study the participants from a distance without interacting with participants.
What is naturalistic observation?
400
receptors in the retina which detect color.
What are cones?
400
The principle of hearing which states that pitch and sound are determined by the location of the sound wave on the organ of corti.
What is place theory?
400
Biting down on a mysterious food item which detects a bitter sensation. Reaction times of different people is studied by this type of psychologist. They focus on what traits have allowed human survival and adaption over time.
What is an evolutionary psychologist?
400
Information processing which mostly uses external stimuli to form perception.
What is bottom-up processing?
400
Chemical messengers, not hormones, but this which are released and absorbed by a network of neurons (nerve cells). Many exist within 2 broad categories (excitatory and inhibitory).
What are neurotransmitters?
500
Simultaneous analysis of two different age groups to see how taste and smell are linked with memory and cognition development.
What is a cross-sectional study?
500
The idea or principle that color perception is seen through oppositional color receptors in the retina. Responsible for afterimages when looking away from a color filled image.
What is opponent processing theory?
500
The wavelength (frequency) determines this, and the height (amplitude) of the wave determines this. Both are related to sound
What is pitch (hz) and loudness (decibals)?
500
When tasting something bitter and potentially poisonus these neuron types will send messages from your brain to your muscles in your mouth to spit it out.
What are efferent neurons? motor neurons?
500
A strong negative coefficient scores shows a strong relationship, between 2 variables, but it cannot determine this.
What is causality? What is correlation does not imply causation?
500
Glutamate is this type of chemical messenger. It increases the chance for action potential.
What is excitatory neurotransmitter?
600
A 20-year study on the behavioral impact of character strong. This study looks at how character strong curriculum changed development of character over the course of a lifetime.
What is a longitudinal study?
600
After transduction, communication between neurons are activated and called this. Myelin sheath and glial cells helps this process out.
What is action potential?
600
2 types of hearing impairments.
What is conductive hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss?
600
3 main features of somatosensation (touch). Think about what you could feel when skin receptors are activiated by a stimulus, or an object.
What are temperature, pressure, pain?
600
Along with the vestibular system in you ear with lliquid, this part of the brain helps with balance and orientation.
What is the cerebellum?
600
GABA is this type of chemical messenger. It does slows or prevents action potential.
What is inhibitory neurotransmitter?
700
A mental tendency which makes us perceive something in a particular way or having expectations.
What is perceptual set?
700
Associated with cognition, executive decision making is this frontal lobe structure. It is very important for making good grades and good decisions and also involved in personality.
What is the prefrontal cortex?