Research Methods
This research method is used to examine the relationship between two variables.
This is the part of the brain that processes emotions, particularly fear, anger and anxiety and plays a part in emotional memories.
What is the amygdala?
This is the use the features of the object itself to build a complete perception.
What is bottom-up processing?
This tendency in learning is responding the same way to similar but not identical stimuli.
What is stimulus generalization?
This is the tendency of people to believe the world is just and that people get what they deserve.
What is the just-world phenomenon?
This research method is used to synthesize and analyze the results of multiple studies on a particular topic; researchers collect data from similar studies and pool them together and analyzed statistically.
What is a meta-analysis study?
This is the chemical that is released to reduce pain and stress while promoting well-being. It is mostly associated with challenging tasks and exercises.
What are endorphins?
This is when attention involuntarily switches across the room when you hear your name (were not paying attention to conversation, but heard your name).
What is the cocktail party effect?
This researcher studied negative and positive reinforcements and punishments.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This is when each human grows up with certain sets of beliefs.
This substance or treatment has no healing effects, no active medical ingredients, and oftentimes cause people to get better simply because they believe they are receiving an effective treatment.
What is a placebo?
This part of the brain is responsible for making decisions, monitoring and controlling your behavior, and managing complex tasks.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This is used to compute the difference threshold. The more intense the stimulus, the more change will be needed for us to detect and vice versa
What is Weber's Law?
This is a form of treatment that consists of repeated pairing of a stimulus with a very unpleasant stimulus.
What is aversive conditioning/aversion therapy.
This is the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward a common goal than when individually accountable.
What is social loafing?
This is a sampling method in which the sample is drawn from a part of the population that is readily available and easily accessible.
What is convenience sampling?
This part of the brain is devoted to language comprehension and expression.
What is Wernicke's area?
This is an illusion of movement created when two or more adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession (think disco ball; lighted word signs)
What is the Phi Phenomenon?
This is a stimulus that eventually produces a learned reflex response by being paired with the original unconditioned stimulus.
This is the tendency to overestimate the effect of dispositional causes for another person’s behavior and to underestimate the effects of situational causes.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
This is a hidden or unexpected factor that can influence both the independent and dependent variables in a study, creating misleading association between them; confuses the results, leading to incorrect conclusions about cause and effect.
What is a confounding variable?
This part of the brain is its sensory switchboard, responsible for all senses except smell. It sends information to proper regions of the cerebral cortex for processing and transmits "replied" to the cerebellum & medulla.
What is the thalamus?
This is known as the ability to notice a change in a stimulus 50% of the time.
What is the just noticeable difference?
A type of learning that becomes obvious only once reinforcement is given for demonstrating it.
What is latent learning?
This is the theory that people are motivated to have consistent attitudes and behaviors. When they do not, they experience unpleasant mental tension.
What is cognitive dissonance?