Feeling Sensational
The term for being able to perceive 3 color wavelengths (having 3 cone types)
What is trichromatic?
The idea that we attribute positive characteristics and traits to people that we find physically attractive.
What is the halo effect?
Eta squared (η2) is used to measure ______
What is effect size?
What is object permanence?
The scientific study of the human mind and its functions AKA the best field of study.
What is psychology?
This series of bones move due to the vibration of the tympanic membrane
What are the ossicles?
The process of blaming the innocent and powerless for our own troubles.
What is scapegoating?
This statistic tells you how far on average your sample mean falls from the population mean.
What is standard error?
There are two components of the early stage teenagers have when they are particularly sensitive to what others think: The personal fable and ________
A part of the brain that lies below the thalamus and directs eating, drinking, body temperature, helps govern the endocrine system via the pituitary gland, and is linked to emotion.
What is the hypothalamus?
Cues created by eye movement.
What are oculomotor cues?
A strategy to reduce stereotype threat in which individuals remind themselves of their positive traits, abilities, and talent.
What is self-affirmation?
This experimental design allows for a study to require fewer participants, but exposes the study to order effects
What is a within-subjects/repeated measures design?
Spermarche is to boys as ______ is to girls
Menarche
Danny has a disorder in which he goes through manic episodes (lasting over a week) and depressive episodes (lasting usually 2 weeks).
What is Bipolar I disorder?
Viewing a moving stimulus for a long time causes a stationary stimulus to appear to move due to neuronal fatigue
What is motion aftereffects?
A black student receiving a bad grade from a white professor may not know whether they got a bad grade because they performed poorly, or because the professor is prejudiced against black people. In contrast, if the student receives an excellent grade from their professor, they may wonder whether they got that grade because they truly deserved it or because their professor is trying to prove that they are not prejudiced against black people. This is an example of _______
What is attributional ambiguity?
We use an ANOVA rather than multiple t-tests because using multiple t-tests would inflate the _________
what is the experiment-wise alpha? OR what is the likelihood of type I error?
A form of bias in which children feel that the world is out to get them
What is hostile attribution bias?
Margaret Sanger was an American activist that many believed to be a supporter of eugenics. She was known for inventing _____
What is birth control?
Describe Lateral Inhibition using the Mach bands example
The ability of excited neurons to reduce the activation of neighboring cells. In vision, lateral antagonism makes the edge between two Mach bands appear more distinct by making the edge of the lighter band even lighter and the edge of the darker band even darker.
This is 1 of the 3 processes that contribute to the formation of stereotypes in which there is a perception that members of the out-group are more similar to each other than members of the in-group. This occurs because it is easier to recall specific individuals in our own group and we have more opportunities to learn about individuals in our own group across situations.
the out-group homogeneity effect
Name the confound: Researchers were interested in examining the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral treatment on students’ stress levels. The researchers made contact with several university counseling centers and recruited participants with extremely high stress levels.
What is regression to the mean?
What is the germinal stage, embryonic stage, and fetal stage?
William Wundt stated there are two components of New Psychology
What is 1. Experimental component 2. Cultural/social component?