Intro to Psychology & Research Ethics
This early school of thought, founded by Wilhelm Wundt, focused on breaking down conscious experience into its basic components
Who is Structuralism?
This term describes a relationship between two or more variables, but it does not imply causation
What is a correlation?
A blow to the back of the head would most likely damage this lobe, which contains the primary visual cortex.
What is the occipital lobe?
This is the term for the conversion of sensory stimulus energy into a neural signal.
What is Transduction?
This is a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty falling or staying asleep.
What is insomnia?
This subfield of psychology applies psychological principles to the legal and criminal justice system, such as assessing competency to stand trial
What is Forensic Psychology?
This type of study is the only way to establish a true cause-and-effect relationship.
What is an experiment?
This thick band of neural fibers connects the brain's two hemispheres, allowing them to communicate.
What is the corpus callosum?
This savory taste, associated with glutamate, is considered one of the primary tastes.
What is umami?
This stage of sleep is characterized by brain activity that resembles being awake and is important for memory consolidation.
What is REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep?
The influential "doll studies" by Mamie and Kenneth Clark provided key evidence in this landmark 1954 Supreme Court case.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
In an experiment, this is the variable that is manipulated by the researcher.
What is the independent variable (IV)?
A teenager making impulsive, poor decisions after a head injury likely has damage to this lobe, which is responsible for reasoning and higher-level cognitive functioning.
What is the frontal lobe?
In the process of hearing, sound vibrations are amplified by three tiny bones called the ossicles before being sent into this snail-shaped structure in the inner ear.
What is the cochlea?
This is a state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility, sometimes used for pain management or habit change.
What is hypnosis?
Stanley Milgram's obedience study is a key example of unethical research, as it lacked proper debriefing and caused significant distress, violating the principle that the benefits of a study should not outweigh this
What is harm to participants?
If a scale consistently shows your weight as 5 pounds too heavy, it is considered this, but not tha
What is reliable, but not valid?
This structure, located in the temporal lobe, is essential for forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
According to this theory of color vision, we have three types of cones that are receptive to red, green, and blue light.
What is the trichromatic theory?
Alcohol, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines all fall into this category of psychoactive drugs.
What are depressants?
This ethical principle requires that participants are fully informed about a study's true purpose after it concludes, a step that was notably absent in studies like the Milgram experiment.
What is debriefing?
The relationship between ice cream sales and crime rates is often explained by this, such as higher temperatures in the summer
What is a third (or confounding) variable or spurious correlation?
his part of the limbic system is critical for experiencing emotion and tying emotional meaning to memories.
What is the amygdala?
The sense of smell is unique because signals from the olfactory bulb bypass this major sensory relay station on their way to the cortex.
What is the thalamus?
This phenomenon is the failure to notice a fully visible object because one's attention is engaged on another task or object.
What is inattentional blindness?