APA format
Key Terms
Research
Brain Function
Cognitive Psychology
100

T/F: APA format does not have a title page

False! APA format has a title page.

100

MRI stands for

What is magnetic resonance imaging?

100

T/F: The majority of people are left-brained

F: some people have a dominant side, but most people use both sides of their brain depending on the situation.

100

The functional unit of the brain

What is a neuron?

100

___________ is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences a response to a later stimulus.

What is priming?

200

Uses ____ point font.

What is 10 - 12 point?

200

CT, a test commonly used to assess brain injuries, stands for

What is Computerized Tomography?

200

When conducting research, it is important to avoid

Fake news, biased information, information from a source that is outdated or not credible.

200

The area of the brain that is considered responsible for the ability to speak

What is Broca's Area?

200

________ is based on the meaning of a stimulus and is enhanced by semantic tasks.

What is conceptual priming?

300

The spacing on the page should be

What is double-spaced with 1-inch margins?

300

When someone is giving you a logical reason for their behaviour, even though it’s not the real reason, they are

What is rationalizing or rationalization?

300

Is an old, but still used, type of therapy that provides relief to patients

Psychoanalysis, talk therapy

300

This part of the brain assists in interpreting smells 

What is the olfactory bulb?

300

Another name for direct, positive priming.

What is repetition? 

400

When using the CRAAP test, you are evaluating a source based on its...

Currency
Relevance
Authority
Accuracy
Purpose

400

A group of synapes

What is a ganglion?

400

You can incorporate research (someone else's ideas) into your own work by using _________ and ___________.

What are direct quotes and paraphrases?

400

Freud's components of the conscious and unconscious are known as

What are the id, ego, and superego?

400

The ability to recognize words that are similar in content to each other more quickly than words of different catogories is know as

What is lexical or semantic priming?

500

When creating a Reference page, you need to know

the title, author's name, date of publication, source of publication, URL (if online), journal issue number

500

A primary source is 

What is an oringial piece of literature/work/art/etc?
500

Why would a patient need to stay awake during brain surgery?

So the surgeons can monitor their movements and know which part of the brain they should not alter.

500

______ created the idea of the collective unconscious.

Who is Karl Jung?

500

How can we be effected by priming? 

Priming uses our unconscious to assist us to make decisions, whether positive or negative, intentional or unintentional. ex: using stereotypes

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